Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally? | 580
  2. I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion | 180
  3. X is selling existing users' handles | 91
  4. What is it like being in a CS major program these days? | 174
  5. Remember Fidonet? | 69
  6. Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down? | 39
  7. I traced $2B in nonprofit grants for Meta and Age Verification lobbying | 19
  8. Tell HN: AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals | 86
  9. Is Claude down again? | 72
  10. Have you successfully treated forward head posture ("nerd neck")? | 39
  11. How do you capture WHY engineering decisions were made, not just what? | 64
  12. Claude 4.6 Opus can recite Linux's list.h | 4
  13. Why can't we just make more RAM? | 20
  14. Got cancer, a new job,new boss in less than a year What do I do now? | 18
  15. Why is USA starting world war 3 now? | 17
  16. What Happened to xAI? | 8
  17. Will US send ground troops to Iran? | 19
  18. Tons of new LLM bot accounts here | 16
  19. How do you cope with the broken rythm of agentic coding? | 9
  20. Why have co-ops never played a major role in tech? | 8
  21. What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people? | 9
  22. AI is supercharging fake work | 12
  23. MiniMax M2.5 is trained by Claude Opus 4.6? | 9
  24. Did GitHub remove Opus and Sonnet from their Copilot Pro subscription? | 7
  25. What was it like for programmers when spreadsheets became ubiquitous? | 12
  26. How to Learn C++ in 2026? | 13
  27. Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now? | 24
  28. I'm a project manager, to the engineers: how replaceable do you think my job is? | 20
  29. Maybe we can keep on coding? pseudo code project | 12
  30. Devs who are out of work – what are you doing for income now? | 5
  31. How do you review gen-AI created code? | 10
  32. Finding a purpose after tech layoffs | 8
  33. What's your biggest pain point when joining a new developer team? | 15
  34. Tell HN: It's official, I'm done with Claude | 11
  35. What will you be doing for the next 10 years? | 11
  36. Generate tests from GitHub pull requests | 8
  37. .ORG Domain Price Increases June 1, 2026 | 2
  38. 100k/year individual token usage? | 4
  39. Why isn't there an open-source model trained by the community? | 3
  40. How do we build a new Human First online community in the LLM age? | 15
  41. Looking for Partner to Build Agent Memory (Zig/Erlang) | 10
  42. Why is email so resilient as a technology? | 8
  43. Tell HN: Godaddy DNS resolution down for 2+ hours | 0
  44. App for clean movie/TV shorts? | 0
  45. Tell HN: iPhone 6s still getting security updates | 3
  46. Claude broke a ZIP password in a smart way | 2
  47. How not to fork an open source project | 2
  48. Is there prior art for this rich text data model? | 2
  49. Instagram Ending Encrypted DMs | 1
  50. If AI makes your devs super productive, why layoff? | 3
  51. Getting Someone at Facebook to Listen | 3
  52. What are you using to mitigate prompt injection? | 4
  53. Stop trying to sell me things while I'm trying to use the thing you already sold | 1
  54. Should Sam Altman fear token compression? | 0
  55. How do I make UK and US hosters disown Russian Firewall? | 4
  56. AI is to software as power tools are to woodworking | 10
  57. I'm struggling and I don't have anyone else to share this with except you | 13
  58. AI coding agents accidentally introduced vulnerable dependencies | 14
  59. Claude helped me find direction in life | 1
  60. Tell HN: Vertical tabs has arrived (behind a flag) in Chrome stable | 4
  61. Looking for a job after layoff and burnout. What should I focus on | 10
  62. How do you guys deal with enshittification mentally? | 5
  63. Happy Birthday YC/HN | 4
  64. How are people forecasting AI API costs for agent workflows? | 22
  65. Since a week HN keeps logging me off every few days, why? | 2
  66. It's hard for solo developers to gain attentions | 3
  67. The Token Tax You Didn't Know You Were Paying | 1
  68. Should HN update this site guideline? | 4
  69. Prompt to make Claude more autonomous in web dev | 1
  70. Did you ever have a supernatural experience? | 5
  71. Did Claude Code just bump Opus default to 1M context? | 3
  72. Why doesn't Linux have a native text editor as feature rich as Notepad++ | 5
  73. Has anyone critically examined Michael Levin's sorting algorithm claims? | 0
  74. Enabling Media Router by default undermines Brave's privacy claims | 2
  75. Why is my submission not visible if I am not logged in? | 7
  76. I spent a year building a GPS-ephemeral social network. Here's what happened | 3
  77. Developers still enjoying development after AI? | 5
  78. YC: Need more time to review application | 7
  79. Why does a black line appear on HN sometimes? | 3
  80. Silicon Valley Files? | 8
  81. What is thick black row above top of header? | 6
  82. Has anyone built an AI agent that spends real money? | 4
  83. Why do the majority of vibecoded projects fail? | 2
  84. What's your experience working on software for science? | 5
  85. How do you use Coding Agents/CLIs out of coding? | 6
  86. How to "make it" as a newlygrad/junior? | 14
  87. Is Starlink still being jammed in Iran? | 2
  88. Neo-Stoicism is the religion of the 21st century | 1
  89. What software has improved dramatically recently thanks to AI tooling? | 2
  90. Which DNS based ad blocker do you suggest? | 18
  91. Uploaded a post and it was [dead] within a minute | 8
  92. Is launching a product on here a thing | 9
  93. I Got Fired Because of AI – But I Still Think I'm the Engineer of the Future | 2
  94. Why isn't vibe coding creating more shareware? | 6
  95. Ten YoE as a software engineer, what's next with LLMs coming in fast? | 2
  96. How do you search things like YouTube and Reddit from before the AI slop | 1
  97. Does code style matter much anymore? | 4
  98. I left my job to work with the technologies I'd been dying to use | 2
  99. What starts to break down as your notes grow? | 3
  100. Would this eliminate bots for good? | 12