Ask HN ranking for the past week

1. What are you working on? (February 2026) | 1119
2. Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript) | 6
3. Tell HN: I'm a PM at a big system of record SaaS. We're cooked | 45
4. Why are electronics still so unrecyclable? | 137
5. Non AI-obsessed tech forums | 41
6. Ideas for small ways to make the world a better place | 40
7. Why is everyone here so AI-hyped? | 17
8. Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code? | 33
9. Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups? | 22
10. Mass Resignation from xAI | 12
11. ASK HN: Postman removes free team collaboration (small teams capped at 1 user) | 7
12. I Built a Browser Flight Simulator Using Three.js and CesiumJS | 4
13. Every tech commercial in this year's Super Bowl sucked | 10
14. Elon Musk Censors Dissident Fleeing the United States | 12
15. Open Models are 9 months behind SOTA, how far behind are Local Models? | 12
16. Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock? | 4
17. Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam | 3
18. Hacker News Alternative Where People Are Positive About AI | 11
19. Cursor switches pay-per-token when your plan limit end. Calls "On-Demand usage" | 6
20. Why does no one talk about the H-1B problem? | 12
21. Dear OpenAI and Anthropic Sales Leaders | 4
22. What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works? | 4
23. XCancel but for Instagram? | 1
24. Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools? | 13
25. The string " +#+#+#+#+#+ " breaks Codex 5.3 | 5
26. AI Regex Scientist: A self-improving regex solver | 2
27. OrthoRay – A native, lightweight DICOM viewer written in Rust/wgpu by a surgeon | 9
28. What made VLIW a good fit for DSPs compared to GPUs? | 3
29. What do you want people to build? | 10
30. LLMs are powerful, but enterprises are deterministic by nature | 15
31. How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist? | 5
32. Tell HN: AI is not a slippery slope, it's a waterslide | 13
33. What Is Genspark? | 3
34. Am I holding it wrong? | 7
35. OpenAI's GPT-4 Discontinuation: Consumer Fraud and Regulatory Scrutiny | 31
36. It has been 2 months, is anyone using GPT Apps? | 0
37. The hell is going on with the epstien files | 5
38. Tell HN: Apple Price Gouging | 13
39. Seedance 2.0 preview: The best video model of 2026, outperforming Sora 2 | 6
40. FeedbackKit: A developer-first feedback platform for multi-platform apps | 0
41. Necessity of LLC for solo game dev? | 2
42. Has your upper management been one-shotted by AI hype? | 2
43. If your OpenClaw could do 1 thing it currently can't, what would it be? | 2
44. Tools to code using voice? | 2
45. How should I proceed reading HN? | 5
46. What makes an AI agent framework production-ready vs. a toy? | 1
47. How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know? | 4
48. Linux laptop with < 0.3w standby power draw? | 0
49. What happens when capability decouples from credentials? | 2
50. We All Have Steam Libraries. What Happens When They're Gone? | 3
51. Why LLM providers sell access instead of consulting services? | 15
52. How do you "step through" your own anxiety? | 6
53. What do you expect from a Turkey-based hosting provider? | 4
54. What are your odds that "we are not alone" is confirmed this year? | 15
55. Is the Downfall of SaaS Started? | 1
56. The $5.5T Paradox: Structural displacement in the GPU/AI infra labor demand? | 2
57. Why doesn't Netflix add a “Theater Mode” that recreates the worst parts? | 2
58. AI Agents That Execute Business Workflows (Claude Code for ERP) | 0
59. What is this "boilerplate" of which you speak? | 1
60. AI Isn't Dangerous. Evaluation Structures Are. | 6
61. What is your monthly AI spending? | 4
62. How to find joy in writing/learning about tech in this AI world? | 4
63. Discuss – Do AI agents deserve all the hype they are getting? | 2
64. What do you use for your customer facing analytics? | 5
65. AI Wrote My Project, an Nginx Engineer Rebuilt the Architecture | 0
66. How do founders demo real product without exposing sensitive data? | 2
67. GPT-5.3-Codex being silently routed to GPT-5.2? | 2
68. Non-profit, volunteers run org needs CRM. Is Odoo Community a good sol.? | 5
69. HN needs a context reminder in the URL window | 2
70. Are past LLM models getting dumber? | 5
71. How do you deal with long Covid? | 2
72. Dumping GitHub for Forgejo for a free and open source project | 3
73. Does OpenClaw need a re-architecture to be usable? | 4
74. Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future? | 2
75. How do you handle Canadian income tax brackets in software? | 0
76. Tell me about an OpenClaw skill | 0
77. Do sociotechnical pressures select for beneficial or harmful AI systems? | 1
78. Having a well paid side-hustle while working in tech leadership | 1
79. Why is price comparison still so bad in 2026? | 2
80. Is the CoCo 3 the best 8 bit computer ever made? | 4
81. How defensible is Gmail's position today? | 2
82. 900x downgrade of Perplexity Pro – anyone else hit? | 6
83. What's the current state of ChatGPT Apps? | 0
84. Any good open source projects written by AI agents? | 0
85. A Deep Dive into Nova – A Web Framework for Erlang on Beam | 0
86. The API Is a Dead End; Machines Need a Labor Economy | 0
87. The Coming Class War | 6
88. What CI do you use instead of GitHub Actions? | 8
89. Is there a "canon" of great CLI typography? | 1
90. How do you manage flaky E2E tests at scale? | 4
91. What to do instead of giving up on tech | 2
92. Best option for hosted agent in 2026? | 2
93. What is the most complicated Algorithm you came up with yourself? | 9
94. I built an anonymous discussion layer with time-bound posts | 1
95. More Terrible Slack Setups | 2
96. Opus 4.6 ignoring instructions, how to use 4.5 in Claude Code instead? | 4
97. Would you use context-based "modes" in Instagram(work,study,sport,news)? | 2
98. Tell HN: GPT-5.3-codex is now available in the API | 0
99. Dev with 5 of experience switched to Rails, what should I be careful about? | 0
100. Kimi.com Potential Cryptojacking | 0