Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-08-17.

22 new stories since Lunch.

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 389 points, 60 comments (discussion)

Also linked: Lobsters

Does it make sense to switch to a Github Alternative ?

Sources: Lobsters

US Grid Operator PJM Proposes Forcing Data Center Off Grid During Emergencies

Sources: Slashdot

An AI broke Snowflake's code. Then another AI agent exploited it

Sources: The Register

Using Starlink’s Satellites to Study Earth’s Upper Atmosphere

Sources: Hackaday

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 373 points, 243 comments (discussion)

It depends on what you are after? 1. Do you want something that works and feels like GitHub? -- Forgejo and Gitea are good for this. 2. Do you want a place to host git repositories with minimal hassle? -- GitLab, CodeBerg, and others are available. 3. Do you have your own hosting infrastructure? You...

GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement

Sources: Lobsters

OpenAI Announces Massive Data Center In Ohio With $105 Billion Nvidia Guarantee

Sources: Slashdot

Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS

Sources: The Register

Linux Fu: Improving FTP

Sources: Hackaday

Incident with Github.com

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 337 points, 764 comments (discussion)

Almost 3 hours in and still "We are still working to identify the root cause" Can't even view diffs in the web interface! I'm out! I am willing to pay ~$5-10/mo for a reliable host I can swap as painlessly as possible. Mostly just building little static sites and little PWAs, no more than 500mb a re...