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Hacker News Trends – August 2026

In August 2026, Birbla tracked 500 high-signal Hacker News stories. github.com led publishers with 27 stories, while AI was the most-discussed topic (174 stories). Fastest-rising title keywords: scores (6), valley (5), joining (4). Figures below are computed from Birbla’s StoryCache — original stats you can cite.

Top domains

DomainStories
github.com27
bbc.com9
theguardian.com8
openai.com8
ft.com6
openrouter.ai4
twitter.com4
economist.com4
reuters.com4
wsj.com3
shkspr.mobi3
blog.google3
techcrunch.com3
bloomberg.com3
modular.com3

Most-discussed topics

TopicStoriesvs prior month
AI174-4
Open Source70-6
Programming36+8
Google28-1
Apple27+5
Startups24-3
LLM21+1
Automation13-10
Launches13-4
Hardware11+5

Fastest-rising keywords

Ranked by month-over-month growth in story titles (min 2 mentions).

scores (6, new)valley (5, new)joining (4, new)qwen3 (4, new)tariffs (4, new)store (4, new)funding (4, new)social (4, new)france (3, new)openrouter (3, new)stripe (3, new)department (3, new)facebook (3, new)there (3, new)domain (3, new)acquires (3, new)votes (3, new)removed (3, new)alpha (3, new)capabilities (3, new)

Average score by topic

TopicAvg scoreStories
Remote Work3914
DevOps3648
Automation34913
Programming32036
LLM31821
Google31728
Biotech3128
AI310174
Apple30327
Startups29424

Notable launches

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