Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Who is hiring? (May 2026) | 413
  2. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA | 247
  3. Who wants to be hired? (May 2026) | 424
  4. Is the Job Market Actually Bad? | 198
  5. Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author | 40
  6. Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team | 49
  7. Who wants to be fired? (May 2026) | 24
  8. Scraping 241 UK council planning portals – 2.6M decisions so far | 70
  9. Claude.ai down again? | 24
  10. Is it just me or is Claude Code getting worse? | 24
  11. Why does tech industry not have more co-ops? | 9
  12. Can HN ban new accounts? or charge money? | 56
  13. When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook | 28
  14. Anyone feel like they're just opting out of tech these days? | 15
  15. Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow? | 9
  16. Why don't AI coding tools like REST? | 5
  17. Why didn't functional programming work for you? | 1
  18. Claude Code dies with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in cloud environment | 2
  19. Claude Pro expired and my $40 in prepaid Extra Usage credits vanished | 6
  20. Why Codex works better than Claude Code for my production monolith | 2
  21. Tell HN: Happy May Day | 5
  22. SlothDB a 5X Faster Alternative to DuckDB, ClickHouse DB | 8
  23. Tell HN: Claude Opus 4.7 quota suddenly changed to 0 TPM in Bedrock | 6
  24. Best Embedding Models? | 3
  25. Tell HN: The saddest irony of my/our craft | 6
  26. Will there be global famine soon? | 5
  27. Where can I go to ask for help? | 5
  28. Is AI resulting in net revenue gain for non-tech companies? | 9
  29. Is it still worth it to try to get a job in IT | 15
  30. Do you think AI will end up like dotcom? | 7
  31. Can anyone point me to a ShowHN first post policy documentation? | 9
  32. What's your favorite HN post? | 2
  33. $38k AWS Bedrock bill caused by a simple prompt caching miss | 0
  34. Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible? | 10
  35. What are you doing during inference? | 3
  36. Why hasn't someone built a decentralized compute network? | 7
  37. Do you feel reading AI generated readme tiring? | 2
  38. Tell HN: Claude account suspension after flagging duplicate billing | 0
  39. Does Claude Code succeed after being asked "should we give up?" for you? | 1
  40. Building a Web Framework from Scratch | 1
  41. If coding gets faster, where should architecture happen? | 7
  42. Should it be acceptable that Excel needs to update 2-3 times/month? | 1
  43. Hyperscalers are buying all the chips to then rent them to us later | 4
  44. Where are you getting your AI news from? | 4
  45. Tell HN: Your ChatGPT account can be deactivated at any moment, losing your data | 3
  46. What I changed in how I use Claude Code after Anthropic's postmortem | 3
  47. Hosted Fossil for small teams – interesting, or wrong call? | 4
  48. My friends left me because I told them I was a furry | 46
  49. GitHub flagged my org two weeks ago. No reason given, no appeal response | 0
  50. When did you move from AI agentic loops to simpler deterministic system? | 3
  51. A GPT-5.4 bug led to OpenAI banning goblins and raccoons | 1
  52. Rant, Am I bad or is this a company with a poor tech culture? | 28
  53. How to Sell as a Software Engineer? | 2
  54. Is Anybody Using Codex? | 11
  55. Ramp.com Offering Incentives to Agents | 0
  56. Tell HN: Fossil SCM Server Overloaded | 0
  57. SQL access to crypto market data, not just JSON | 0
  58. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2026) | 11
  59. Does Claude use 'prior' in a Bayesian sense more than English? | 6
  60. We scanned 100 Smithery MCP servers, 22 flagged, here's what we found | 5
  61. How do you feel about AI assisted blogging? | 7
  62. How are you stopping supply chain attacks via compromised dev keys? | 0
  63. Why Does a Single Firefox Tab Take Almost 1.5GB RAM? | 5
  64. What book have you given as a gift? | 15
  65. What Happened to the CS153 Videos | 3
  66. Are employers getting the returns from AI? | 6
  67. Tell HN: GitHub Issues Issues | 0
  68. What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers? | 6
  69. Vision agents vs. structured APIs on the same internal tool task | 0
  70. What do you think of people buying Mac mini's to run AI? | 20
  71. Anyone using AI agents for active learning sprints? Here's my setup | 4
  72. Help a fellow dev on AI-localization? | 2
  73. What happened to the open hardware movement? | 1
  74. Is anyone still using the ChatGPT browser, Atlas? | 2
  75. Anyone else suddenly have Brawls Stars on their iPhone? | 3
  76. Making Postman load 60% Faster | 4
  77. I was wrong about vibe coding on greenfield projects. | 2
  78. ow's you experience building an app on Cloudflare? (Workers, D1,R2 etc.) | 0
  79. What did your 'Show HN' project turn into? | 4
  80. May the Fourth Be with You | 0
  81. Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? | 4
  82. Keeping TypeScript CLI options and types in sync | 0
  83. Where are SWE's being replaced? | 1
  84. Best way to develop games for beginners | 11
  85. Can I trust GitHub not to use my code for LLM training? | 3
  86. What's the best way to handle large file P2P transfer in the browser? | 1
  87. Why Are Companies Tokenmaxxing? | 9
  88. What do you want to see in a next-generation GitHub in the age of AI? | 8
  89. Can't follow "don't use HN for promotion" due to my lifestyle: OK or no? | 8
  90. Make HN great again: Neovim vs. IDEs | 3
  91. Where is my UX after all those billions spent on LLM codegen? | 1
  92. I'm looking for an AI Automation Engineer role or gig | 0
  93. Why are people leaving GitHub now? | 6
  94. How long do you commute by car each day? | 14
  95. Need Some Testers | 8
  96. How do you show your free software projects to the world? | 8
  97. Alternatives to VSCode? | 7
  98. RNet: Users pay for their own AI usage instead of apps covering token costs | 5
  99. What are you working on? (May 2026) | 3
  100. What are tarpit ideas in the AI era? | 4