Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs | 451
  2. If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos | 318
  3. Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp | 94
  4. Who is hiring? (April 2026) | 189
  5. The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive | 88
  6. Distributed data centers in our basements | 63
  7. Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry | 62
  8. Who wants to be hired? (April 2026) | 153
  9. Apple Discontinues Mac Pro | 5
  10. Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do? | 31
  11. Are you too getting addicted to the dev workflow of coding with agents? | 46
  12. Stripe withheld $85k from our EU platform | 19
  13. Where have you found the coding limits of current models? | 45
  14. What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about? | 20
  15. Academic study on AI's impact on software development – want to join? | 15
  16. What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet? | 34
  17. Who needs contributors? (March 2026) | 16
  18. Claude API Error: 529 | 14
  19. Does anyone else notice that gas runs out faster than usual | 31
  20. Someone is flagging political posts | 11
  21. Is it just me? | 32
  22. Active Supply Chain Attack on axios 1.14.1 | 1
  23. Best stack for building a tiny game with an 11-year-old? | 28
  24. GitHub has been sending me an email every two seconds. | 3
  25. Why isn't using AI in production considered stupid? | 25
  26. Are tech companies even hiring? | 10
  27. Are you team MCP or team CLI? | 18
  28. GitHub now requiring 2FA for all contributors,what authenticator apps you using? | 39
  29. Rses – cross-resume between Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode | 4
  30. Anyone using Meshtastic/LoRa for non-chat applications? | 0
  31. LinkedIn uses 65GB of RAM with 7 tabs opened | 7
  32. What's the latest concensus on OpenAI vs. Anthropic $20/month tier? | 15
  33. I burnt out from software development. What now? | 12
  34. Freedom is the only thing that matters. Living freely. Creating freely | 12
  35. Is there any founder building non AI startup in 2026? | 7
  36. BetterDB – open-source Redis/Valkey migration across clouds and self-hosted | 4
  37. Is it actually possible to run multiple coding sessions in parallel? | 15
  38. What's your favorite number, and why? | 31
  39. What happens when you block/mark as spam a call or text? | 2
  40. M5 MacBook Pro buyers, worth spending the $$$ to maybe run LLMs local? | 12
  41. How do you deal with obvious AI assistant usage in interviews | 20
  42. DashPane – macOS window switcher, no account, no subscription, pure Swift | 6
  43. Fear of Missing Code | 9
  44. Why Isn't Everything Public? | 5
  45. How to Handle Claude's Stubbornness? | 10
  46. At what point you decided to pursue your startup fulltime? | 15
  47. How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money? | 33
  48. Non-US founders residential address problem with Brex, Mercury? | 1
  49. Dean of studies at a French CS school – what should we teach? | 5
  50. Is anyone still resisting the slop onslaught? | 8
  51. Tell HN: GitHub's Dependabot REST API is silently returning incomplete results | 9
  52. Tell HN: Microsoft has locked out a bunch of 3rd party Windows driver developers | 3
  53. What Changed Your Life? | 2
  54. Personalized mRNA cancer vaccines, how real is the pipeline today? | 4
  55. Repsy – A lightweight, open-source alternative to Nexus/Artifactory | 0
  56. What are you working on? (April 2026) | 5
  57. Uni feels so usless, I cant focus anymore | 3
  58. Books on Unit Testing and TDD? | 3
  59. Are you more quickly hitting Claude Code limits the past 48-96 hours? | 3
  60. Gumroad suspended my account, blocked my payout, and stopped responding | 2
  61. Gemini CLI vs. Claude Code | 8
  62. My side project was annihilated by Google | 3
  63. Tell HN: DeepL Moving Data to AWS | 4
  64. Proof-engine A mathematical rendering engine for Rust | 4
  65. Tell HN: Some tech companies use .so domains, despite no connection to Somalia | 5
  66. Is consumer AI boxes a viable idea? | 1
  67. Is AWS me-south-1 down or gone? | 2
  68. Tell HN: Zed is sunsetting text threads | 0
  69. I built a $15k Mac app for a random Reddit user | 4
  70. Anybody tried to cheat AI-HR-system with hidden/white sentences? | 3
  71. A Decentralized Proof-of-Aliveness? | 0
  72. Google Finance Replacement Without AI Slop? | 1
  73. What trades can I learn at home? | 3
  74. What's the best advice your would tell your 20 year old self? | 5
  75. Do multiple short stints in startups hurt even if you've learned a lot? | 1
  76. Sandflare – I built a sandbox that launches AI agent VMs in ~300ms | 5
  77. What do you use for normative specs to drive AI agents? | 6
  78. Non-AI, engineering blogs? 2026 | 0
  79. What's your desktop setup optimized to work with AI? | 1
  80. Tell HN: Trying to update to macOS 15.7.5 bricked my M2 MacBook Pro | 2
  81. Next 12 months: Production Code that runs itself | 0
  82. With Mythos will we reach coding singularity? | 1
  83. Are there any merchant of records that don't dox you? | 4
  84. Is there any interest in a native Qt/C++ Discord client? | 0
  85. Non-Profit Dating App | 4
  86. How do you know if a tweak to your AI skill made it better? | 0
  87. TCP/IP Illustrated e2 of v2 & v3? | 1
  88. Why did Harvey choose a top-down enterprise GTM while Cursor went bottom-up? | 2
  89. Release Path for 'Transformers Alternatives'? | 1
  90. Operator23: Describe Your Workflow in English, Deploy Everywhere | 0
  91. HN now hides comments from new users | 12
  92. Friction Is Everything | 1
  93. Tell HN: Jellyfin Uses Axios | 1
  94. Any Tradespeople Here? | 2
  95. Log in issues after macOS Tahoe update? | 0
  96. The danger of using "Hide My Email" with third-party Stripe handoffs | 3
  97. What do you use for local embeddings? | 0
  98. Data Is the Final Moat | 0
  99. Kindle update 5.19.2 is the worst Kindle update of all time IMO | 0
  100. Is X down? | 6