Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users | 257
  2. Who is hiring? (March 2026) | 325
  3. Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down | 181
  4. How are you all staying sane? | 137
  5. Who wants to be hired? (March 2026) | 324
  6. HN is drowning in AI comments | 65
  7. Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety? | 89
  8. Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues | 27
  9. What sources like HN do you consume? | 33
  10. What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism? | 143
  11. Israel Is Attacking Iran | 19
  12. Who Is Using XMPP? | 12
  13. Tell HN: Claude Is Down | 4
  14. What's it like working in big tech recently with all the AI tools? | 15
  15. Stripe closed my account – no notice – my LLC was registered using Stripe Atlas | 14
  16. I don't need AI to build me a new app. I need it to make Jira bearable | 18
  17. Is GitHub Copilot still relevant in the enterprise? | 23
  18. I'm in Tehran, what do you think will be happen? | 13
  19. What's your experience self-hosting in 2026? | 2
  20. Tell HN: My daily game won a Players Choice Award | 4
  21. Whats Up with Claude Lately? | 14
  22. Our Computer Using agent just solved CAPTCHA up to Level 6 | 4
  23. Claude App Down 3/2/26 | 10
  24. Claude Seems to Be Down | 4
  25. 6 Practices that turned AI from prototyper to workhorse (106 PRs in 14 days) | 12
  26. 36yo: Career at home vs. Simple life abroad? | 38
  27. How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity? | 20
  28. My YC company is hiring one engineer/day but there's not enough work | 7
  29. How do you stay focused during deep work? | 3
  30. Facebook Appears to Be Down | 14
  31. Google just killed my project | 10
  32. I lost my ability to learn anything new because of AI and I need your opinions | 15
  33. Tell HN: 3 months ago we feared AI was useless. Now we fear it will take our job | 26
  34. What will OpenAI employees do now who have signed notdividedorg petition | 15
  35. What Online LLM / Chat do you use? | 16
  36. AWS ME-CENTRAL-1 Region Down (Due to additional loss of mec1-az3) | 2
  37. How do you handle duplicate side effects when jobs, workflows retry? | 11
  38. When do you expect ChatGPT moment in robotics? | 20
  39. Tell HN: Planning to end my life today | 5
  40. How do you plan to make a living after AI takes your job? | 39
  41. Starting a New Role with Ada | 5
  42. How to approach new people in 2026? | 17
  43. Orbis. Your AI Co-Founder (Waitlist Open) | 4
  44. Trump Administration reiterates human in the loop policy for nuclear weapons | 1
  45. Billions of dollars in funding, but what's changed for robotics? | 3
  46. How would you start a small private math circle for talented kids? | 5
  47. LazyGravity – I made my phone control Antigravity so I never leave bed | 5
  48. Garbage In, Garbage Out: The Degradation of Human Requirements in the LLM Era | 4
  49. Why People Support Anthropic? | 4
  50. Could you create a competitor to your company at 10% of the cost? | 14
  51. My competitor wants to buy us out, recommend a lawyer? | 8
  52. BlackTape – open-source music discovery built on MusicBrainz and Discogs | 2
  53. Codex CLI error reveals "GPT-5.4-ab-arm2" string | 1
  54. Dario, come to Europe. Here you are allowed to do your job | 0
  55. Would engineers be interested in a technical prep consultant? | 8
  56. If you drive clock wise along the beach on an island | 5
  57. How did you figure out what research field you were passionate about? | 6
  58. I used 2D Base64 to bypass Gemini and expose Google's moderation flaws | 1
  59. How is Claude agent experience in Xcode 26.3? | 0
  60. Template for telling the truth on layoffs like at Block | 1
  61. What will happen with Anthropics ultimatum? | 4
  62. Spotify's take on ADRs is great, but how do you enforce them at scale? | 2
  63. Builder.ai ($1B Microsoft-backed AI company) who's lookin at the assets? | 5
  64. Will AI tools enable mass intelligence gathering? | 5
  65. Super Editor – Atomic file editor with automatic backups (Python and Go) | 1
  66. Anthropic has stood its ground. What excuse is left for other companies? | 3
  67. Who still works async and has a 'no meetings' work policy in 2026? | 5
  68. How will most Anthropic customers respond to the threats by the govt? | 3
  69. How do you evaluate a person's ability to use AI? | 4
  70. Proton/SimpleLogin disabled my paid account for using my own email | 1
  71. Websites requiring government ID | 2
  72. What do I do now that software engineering is dead? | 6
  73. What are you working on (March 2026) | 4
  74. What breaks when you vote on specific claims instead of whole posts? | 6
  75. How are UK sole traders preparing for quarterly tax reporting (MTD)? | 6
  76. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2026) | 13
  77. How can I avoid the "It's not just X, it's Y" writing | 3
  78. Solution to HN getting overwhelmed problem | 3
  79. TinyTTS: Ultra-light English TTS (9M params, 20MB), 8x CPU, 67x GPU | 0
  80. Tell HN: YouTube Subscription page is being deprecated | 3
  81. Google violates its 14-day deprecation policy for Gemini 3 Pro Preview | 1
  82. How Do Emergency Alerts on Phone Work? | 4
  83. Shift from passive documentation to active enforcement | 2
  84. I built AI agents that do the grunt work solo founders hate | 7
  85. A timeline of cyber attacks:home users, contractors, and SMBs are now targets | 2
  86. Why don't MacBooks have Cellular Modems yet? | 1
  87. How long before AI becomes a deity? | 1
  88. Claude: We have discovered that some API methods are not working | 1
  89. Tell HN: Gemini 3.1 Pro may be responding to other users' prompts | 1
  90. How do you get better at coding agents? | 2
  91. What is the "Control Plane" for local AI agents? | 3
  92. What are your go to sources for relatively unbiased global news? | 3
  93. What prompt do you use to get Claude to consistently render LaTeX? | 5
  94. What Happened to HTTPS://Www.keyvalues.com/? | 3
  95. What are you working on? (March 2026) | 9
  96. Aura-State: Formally Verified LLM State Machine Compiler | 2
  97. What did you find out or explore today? | 5
  98. Self Sustaining Codebases | 5
  99. Are "% improvement" stats in resumes an AI indicator? | 4
  100. Best use / examples of agents / OpenClaw that you saw recently? | 1