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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 24 stories, while AI was the most-discussed topic (169 stories). Fastest-rising title keywords: scores (6), valley (5), stripe (4). Figures below are computed from Birbla’s StoryCache — original stats you can cite.

Top domains

DomainStories
github.com24
theguardian.com8
openai.com8
bbc.com8
ft.com5
reuters.com5
openrouter.ai4
wsj.com4
twitter.com4
nature.com4
grapheneos.social3
shkspr.mobi3
nytimes.com3
techcrunch.com3
bloomberg.com3

Most-discussed topics

TopicStoriesvs prior month
AI169-9
Open Source65-11
Programming36+8
Apple28+6
Google26-3
Startups24-3
LLM200
Automation14-9
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)stripe (4, new)store (4, new)qwen3 (4, new)social (4, new)acquires (4, new)funding (4, new)france (3, new)openrouter (3, new)joining (3, new)department (3, new)removed (3, new)facebook (3, new)mechanical (3, new)there (3, new)domain (3, new)tariffs (3, new)votes (3, new)alpha (3, new)

Average score by topic

TopicAvg scoreStories
DevOps3957
Remote Work3914
Space3577
Google34126
Automation33714
Programming33336
AI327169
LLM32720
Career3176
Biotech3128

Notable launches

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