Ask HN ranking for the past week
- Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died | 221
- Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years | 238
- Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month | 344
- What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? | 633
- Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners | 60
- Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts? | 47
- Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me | 30
- Tell HN: Apple not letting removal of AI models on macOS 27 is outrageous | 27
- Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference? | 18
- GitHub Is Down (Again) | 1
- What games do you religiously play on your phone browser? | 36
- Do you still own a printer? | 33
- My Apple ID is locked for a week, Apple is a single point of failure | 6
- Our digital privacy is being aggressively disbanded this week | 2
- What Is Your Personal Backup Methods | 12
- Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software | 24
- What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing? | 28
- Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code | 4
- You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human | 13
- Is the Steam Machine worth $1049? | 12
- Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model? | 17
- What is the actual percentage of people for and against AI? | 55
- X signups now require a face photo | 4
- Aaron Swartz's domain aaronsw.com has expired | 1
- Super Intelligence and/or Artificial Intelligence | 7
- Pico CSS is no longer maintained (final release v2.1.1) | 7
- Favorite TV Show? | 29
- Orcah Studio: A local-first video agent that can search your videos | 5
- How would you feel if we nationalized Google? | 44
- Do employees vastly outnumber founders on Hacker News? | 6
- How do you describe what your relationship brings you? | 11
- Google Chrome's AI API actively used for device fingerprinting and profiling | 0
- How are AI budgets changing in your company? | 2
- Chamath says open AI models are "commoditize your complement." Agree? | 5
- Which frontier model can do code security reviews | 9
- Google Search is down | 4
- Learning practical system design | 1
- Claude Agents SDK will no longer use subscription; API credits included in plans | 6
- Who is cleaning up all the garbage LLMs generate? | 7
- Is the Future of IDEs Bleak? | 9
- What do you think about AI generated slides for conferences? | 4
- What do you think about Fractional CFOs | 13
- Intelligence Explosion | 6
- How come everyone is an LLM expert? | 4
- How to deal with AI "true believer" leadership at work | 7
- What happens when AI writes a Bible ver 2.0, geared toward its interest? | 7
- Do you support shutting down air travel for 2 months to control Russia plague? | 7
- Meatpupptry is far creepier than pure "AI" fakery | 0
- Tell HN: YouTube is punishing logged-out users | 1
- Is this the beginning of the end of open source? | 12
- Is Freelancing Dead After AI? | 1
- Why Linux is picking up at a rapid pace for AI usage? | 7
- Will mental health improve as AI brings mathematicians down to earth? | 2
- Are there things more important than 'humanity', such as empathy? | 3
- Mathematics Is Not Real | 6
- Whats the first command you run on a new server? | 14
- Vibecoding Follies | 7
- Is observability broken for you? | 1
- Comprehension Audits: Do Developers Know What They Are Shipping? | 1
- Build a hive mind where strangers continue each other's conversations? | 1
- What models and harnesses are you using that are not Claude or Codex? | 2
- Anyone accepted into OpenAI "Codex for open source"? | 0
- Positive text origin verification | 7
- If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival | 1
- What happened with quantum computers anyway? | 3
- Alternatives to NeurIPS, ICLR and ICML | 0
- DOS Game Stunts Port to Linux,Windows,Browser,etc. | 1
- Why today's black banner at top on HN News | 3
- Any Insight Here into French High School Unrest? | 1
- Tell HN: I Hate Codex with Passion | 5
- What is your favorite book of all time, and why? | 2
- ChatGPT work is down: Could not resolve host: github.com | 0
- Anyone Interested in Prediction Markets | 0
- How do you control your phone use? | 9
- Why does steam mobile app guard itself | 5
- How are you preparing your children for an AI-powered world? | 3
- ChatGPT self-distances when admitting fault | 1
- Why don't we just use hashcat to evaluate GPU performance | 2
- Tell HN: Python.com Is for Sale | 1
- If you're struggling with p(doom), how are you handling it? | 9
- Is library building obsoleted by AI coding? | 5
- Leaving Substack | 4
- How would AI kill us all? | 7
- Is the xcancel source code publicly available? | 1
- Is anyone still working on dLLMs | 3
- Matter: Doesn't Matter? | 2
- Claude Mythos 5.1 System Prompt? | 0
- Why does Astra compact context so frequently vs. Fable? | 0
- Scam Warning | 1
- What brings you back to personal AI agents like Instinct and Muse? | 1
- Tell HN: 2026 is the year of the Linux desktop, agent-adjusted | 3
- Coding and Agentic Capabilities Are Now More Important Than Ever for AI | 3
- Human flourishing after jobs? | 16
- Can an AI learn what you like, rather than just what you've searched for? | 3
- Programmers who don't use autocomplete,how do you write long imports? | 4
- Which Distro with Nividia GPU? | 4
- Are we losing control of AI? | 3
- Got a Mac for running agents? what's your setup? | 4
- Any solution for bookmarks on various services? | 5
- Tell HN: If you mispell HOME in 'cd $HOME', you still end up in ~/ | 3