Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel | 270
  2. What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI? | 1103
  3. Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? | 755
  4. What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI? | 422
  5. What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? | 133
  6. Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet? | 116
  7. So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking? | 102
  8. How do you find deep technical content? | 28
  9. Life saving / first aid posters | 4
  10. Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans? | 57
  11. Are we as society going to let LLM companies take all the values? | 16
  12. HN seems dead compared to say 10-15 years ago | 35
  13. Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js | 13
  14. How are thinking efforts implemented? | 16
  15. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight | 15
  16. Are orbital data centers possible / a good idea? | 41
  17. Gin rummy strategies | 4
  18. Learn from my lesson, don't take your pre seed through stripe = Account Closure | 9
  19. High school student – is learning programming still worthwhile? | 42
  20. What is your opinion on index rule changes to accommodate Mega-Cap IPOs? | 11
  21. How to escalate a rejected Google extension? | 11
  22. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens | 1
  23. Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site? | 23
  24. Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS | 25
  25. We're temporarily restricting Show HNs because of an influx | 5
  26. Tell HN: Stripe ToS update demands biometrics, freezes payments until given | 2
  27. My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction | 19
  28. Is Azure capacity this constraind or am I doing it wrong? | 15
  29. Why Ask HN has only 14 questions now? | 3
  30. Claude Fable 5 by Anthropic, releasing tomorrow | 7
  31. How did you discover Hacker News? | 31
  32. If HN policy disallows AI comments, why is linking to AI generated content ok? | 8
  33. I Replaced My AI Agent's Flat Fact Store with a Graph Database | 5
  34. How to get my contact info off US political party's list | 3
  35. How do you cope when your startup contracts? | 8
  36. A Brief History of LLMs | 7
  37. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests | 1
  38. Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store | 4
  39. Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides | 4
  40. Time loop and partial blackhole? | 4
  41. How to voice disagreement over S&P500 inclusion rules change for SpaceX? | 2
  42. Is it possible to send a message in Morse code by un-following someone on x.com? | 23
  43. Why Fossil DVCS is so awesome for the lone developer; A podcast | 0
  44. Does robotics capabilities research accelerate AGI timelines? | 1
  45. Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk | 8
  46. Why won't you be replaced by AI? | 25
  47. How do you stay focused while working from home? | 11
  48. Why is AI use decried if it has been used without attribution? | 7
  49. Is Everyone an Engineer Now? | 12
  50. What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked? | 4
  51. What are the best unknown books you have read? | 3
  52. Open-Source Software in Aerospace Imaging? | 0
  53. What are your digital end-of-life plans? | 4
  54. AI researchers – what's a recent paper that recently blew your mind? | 1
  55. What happens when humans become as dumb as AI? | 4
  56. Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI? | 3
  57. What is the AI setup for an experienced dev starting on a new project? | 3
  58. I hadn't coded in 30 years. Then I built a space game with Godot | 2
  59. Tell HN: Helium is the best browser I ever used | 9
  60. Does anyone know since when we are close to building in space? | 2
  61. What are the best examples of good technical writing you know of? | 6
  62. What is the AI setup for an experienced dev starting on a new project? | 8
  63. How do you stay up to date without information overload? | 4
  64. How do I whitelist commands in Antigravity? | 0
  65. Attempting to regulate an industry when they control the communication pathways | 1
  66. Claude Code vs. Codex | 0
  67. Is Claude Code down, or its just my region? | 1
  68. Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data? | 1
  69. Good books/resources for learning SQL? | 3
  70. Angular jasmine unit tests are harder to code/maintain than the actual feature | 0
  71. Where do you get the latest updates about AI? | 3
  72. Hey, you, tech worker–how are you feeling? | 13
  73. Which companies gained a competitive edge purely via engineering? | 5
  74. Options for critical thinking and learning outside work? | 2
  75. I underestimated how hard audio waveforms are in the browser | 3
  76. What are all the ways to punch through NAT? | 6
  77. Can't a developer publish add-on for Outlook in Microsoft Marketplace? | 1
  78. What is the value of releasing software that leaves people unemployed? | 0
  79. What's your favorite HN Recap like podcast? | 2
  80. For non-hackers/nerds, why do you read HN? | 5
  81. What's good for VR these days, free and paid | 4
  82. Does consciousness itself require memory? | 5
  83. Do you know any company that's making money with LLMs? | 5
  84. Are your hidden links missing? | 3
  85. OpenAI's ChatGPT returns another user's response when I paste an image | 2
  86. Why is it still so hard for LLMs to query NoSQL databases? | 2
  87. Foxlore – subscription-free notes app with powerful search, genuine privacy | 1
  88. Best Claude Code thinking word you've seen? | 5
  89. Heavy coding-agent users what's your context plumbing? Where it fails? | 1
  90. Where do you like to consume content anymore? | 3
  91. The HN shadowbanning situation is insane | 7
  92. AI efficiency in the workplace | 5
  93. AI Goal: Senior Software Engineer | 5
  94. What would you name your own LLM? | 3
  95. OpenAI new privacy policy to include info about ads in ChatGPT | 1
  96. I am developer in building distributed systems,how to get into Anthropic? | 2
  97. Tell HN: Pearl's "useful" PoW AI mining is vaporware | 1
  98. Why are so many Show HNs being flagged? | 6
  99. Miz Framework Story | 9
  100. How do people secure their Linux computer? | 5