Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion | 745
  2. Add flag for AI-generated articles | 456
  3. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work | 100
  4. What Are You Working On? (July 2026) | 1117
  5. Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars | 1
  6. Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board? | 111
  7. Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now? | 86
  8. Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B | 3
  9. LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft | 53
  10. LG ThinQ Terms of Use | 27
  11. Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon? | 94
  12. Fable 5 dropped from subscriptions before the promised July 19 date | 12
  13. Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs? | 50
  14. Does it still make sense to write code by hand? | 48
  15. X permanently banned my 15-year-old account for sharing my own open-source lib | 18
  16. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs | 7
  17. How do you guys keep up with AI news? | 14
  18. Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs? | 18
  19. I feel like I've lost my identity due to AI | 9
  20. What critical legacy system at work is everyone afraid to touch? | 2
  21. Anyone Else Burnt Out? | 7
  22. How do you use LLMs for private discussions? | 14
  23. How does a Dev's job look like in a few years? | 22
  24. What are your personal websites? | 13
  25. cybersecurity refusal for turning a jailbroken kindle into a monitor | 5
  26. How do you manage too many open tabs? | 31
  27. Tell HN: CloudFront VPC Origins is down | 2
  28. GitHub is starting to lockdown some of the previously public data | 5
  29. How do you track feedback when you post across multiple places? | 0
  30. Advice for first-year CS students? | 20
  31. Who gets credits on big math questions solved by LLMs? | 7
  32. Tell HN: Fable Credits Are 150x More Expensive | 6
  33. I built it and nobody came. What got you your first users? | 21
  34. How do you do marketing in the age of slop? | 11
  35. Do you have any plan for post AGI? | 22
  36. How long do you use your personal laptop before replacing it? | 48
  37. Fable gone – Usage credits are required for this model | 5
  38. Is ChatGPT Down? | 5
  39. Is page 2 HN better? | 3
  40. What hardware hobby would you recommend to a software engineer? | 7
  41. I procrastinated so hard I built a proxy to stop myself from procrastinating | 1
  42. Why does Chrome use 100+ mb of memory per tab? | 5
  43. Latest Debian 12 update opens MariaDB server to the internet | 6
  44. Should I Promote My SaaS to get first 100 Customers without budget | 20
  45. Bill Gates testifies Epstein pressured him using knowledge of his affairs | 2
  46. Has anyone built "HN front page, with all AI stories filtrered out"? | 6
  47. Tell HN: Up/downvotes of comments on HN are silently ignored when using Tor | 11
  48. How has the software industry changed for you personally? | 8
  49. What is the one YouTube channel you recommend I subscribe to? | 8
  50. Learn by Building | 2
  51. As LLMs progress, how do you stay sharp and productive? | 8
  52. Who is dating? (July 2026) | 1
  53. Reverse Engineering Apple Wallet | 3
  54. Has AI changed the quality of HN posts? | 8
  55. AI Agent and harness containerization/security recommendations | 3
  56. Tell HN: Codex may have reached 10M active users; usage limits reset again | 2
  57. Tell HN: AWS said I was projected to spend $5B this month on my personal account | 1
  58. Are the heaviest AI users of your team blowing past everyone else? | 6
  59. Does appearance matter more than we admit as founders? | 9
  60. Tell HN: The Codex App is replaced by ChatGPT | 4
  61. How do you review AI code? | 4
  62. How could a startup stand a chance when Reddit won't even let you post? | 8
  63. Having a child before career has taken off | 18
  64. Is looking at the code slowing us down? | 17
  65. Laptop touchpad stopped registering clicks? try this | 1
  66. Assistive Tech Ideas for Dementia | 3
  67. Claude Is Painful | 4
  68. How do you see 3D Gaussian Splats could be used in industry? | 0
  69. I'd prefer to avoid AI comments on Reddit and HN | 5
  70. How can I publish a paid app to Google Play without giving up my privacy | 8
  71. How do you handle the actual situation with so much AI noises | 10
  72. Anthropic banned my thirteen 20x accounts, what now? | 18
  73. Does anyone else find GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex slow? | 2
  74. Tell HN: Not everyone has internet as fast as yours | 3
  75. What makes someone good at using Claude Code? | 8
  76. Any objective research on which languages are best for AI agents? | 6
  77. Why are so many accomplished founders joining Anthropic? | 3
  78. How do you use Hacker News? | 11
  79. Is HN comments used to train AI models? | 3
  80. I want to build an OTT app. Where should I start? | 3
  81. Anthropic extends Fable 5 access through July 19 | 2
  82. I've told everyone about my startup and its been harder than I thought | 15
  83. A DC Powered Home? | 7
  84. What are you working on(2026)? | 22
  85. How do you keep up with news in a particular sector? | 14
  86. Best meeting transcription daemon for macOS? | 4
  87. Do y'all sit here just looking at each url pop up to engage? | 4
  88. How many people still write code by hand? | 15
  89. Omarchy 4 concerns, am I the only one? | 2
  90. ChatGPT now defaults to Codex instead of chat:( | 3
  91. World Cup France England 0:4 halftime | 3
  92. Does language complexity affect reasoning? | 6
  93. Using X vs. LinkedIn? | 4
  94. What are the best free ePub books to read? | 3
  95. Help me be accountable with my time | 10
  96. Recommended technographic API? | 6
  97. What Are You Building with AI? | 10
  98. Whats the Hardest Challenges in AI? | 5
  99. Finitude of Knowledge | 3
  100. What company could create an iOS/Android competitor worth adopting? | 8