Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings | 32
  2. Where is the programming profession going? | 181
  3. We need tech news sources which exclude AI | 80
  4. Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs | 65
  5. Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few | 79
  6. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted | 44
  7. What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ? | 75
  8. Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense? | 81
  9. Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list? | 65
  10. How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era? | 57
  11. MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM | 70
  12. What is everyone in SF talking about? | 48
  13. Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster | 6
  14. Norway bans AI in elementary schools | 21
  15. Secure wrapper for coding agents? | 12
  16. Mullvad Alternatives? | 12
  17. I feel like VSCode is falling apart | 19
  18. What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year? | 13
  19. You have one year to make $1M. What's your plan? | 17
  20. Books about Genetic Algorithms | 9
  21. Tell HN: Please stop posting political content | 19
  22. Homeless, Former Software Developer, What Now? | 17
  23. Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner | 43
  24. What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years? | 19
  25. Has Ilya Sutskever spoken publicly lately? | 3
  26. Running local LLMs? What's your model and hardware | 9
  27. How are you finding work/gigs as a SWE? | 7
  28. Finding It Challenging to Maintain Software Created with Coding Agents? | 7
  29. GitHub's new "search bar" sucks | 2
  30. What do SRE do at your company? | 10
  31. Elastic Layoffs? | 5
  32. Please pause the data center buildout | 5
  33. Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body? | 8
  34. Why don't LLM harnesses enable/expose custom middleware hooks? | 8
  35. I miss old days of blogging without promotions | 12
  36. Who remembers Fry's Electronics – the "church" of IT people? | 4
  37. Why does every AI demo sound perfect but real world deployment always | 13
  38. Anyone else feels many LLMs are heavily biased towards consumerism these days? | 4
  39. Tell HN: Mojo is becoming open source | 4
  40. How would you launch an open-source app with a small budget? | 1
  41. Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis? | 14
  42. Decoupling Compute and Memory for Async GPUs | 2
  43. Metasearch Tooling for Agents | 1
  44. Is there a quiet market for 'no enforced AI' dev jobs? | 11
  45. Do you thank your agents when they did a good job? | 13
  46. How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit | 18
  47. What GUI/desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions? | 6
  48. I patched llama.cpp to gain 20% prompt processing TPS. Help me make a PR | 2
  49. Quickbooks Alternative? | 3
  50. Opus 4.8 feels worse then sonnet | 6
  51. What's a pirate's favorite programming language? | 5
  52. Trying to recover from thin content penalty from Google | 6
  53. Techniques for learning things quickly using coding agents? | 2
  54. How did you set up a multi-agent orchestration for personal use? | 7
  55. Tell Zillow: Fee-Simple vs. Leasehold Filter | 1
  56. What are the hardest problems AWS Lambda MicroVMs can solve now? | 2
  57. Fast feedback loops is the way | 1
  58. Can anyone use Claude Fable 5? | 1
  59. A Common Dilemma for Startup Owners | 9
  60. SVG Recolor Tool – Change Color of SVG Online – Free Color Tool | 3
  61. What would you say to Elon Musk on his 55th birthday TODAY? | 4
  62. What does the day-to-day work of an AI Engineer look like? | 0
  63. Martial Arts Anyone | 3
  64. Which book taught you the most about software architecture? | 1
  65. How is GPU power draw measured at scale? | 2
  66. My website gets more attacks than human visitors | 5
  67. Any growth hacking tips to get my app it's first 10 users? | 6
  68. Is Hacker News selling your email? | 4
  69. Is aerc better than neomutt now? | 1
  70. Why did you learn Chinese? | 1
  71. Is Codex with GPT 5.5 Extra High being dumbed down? | 4
  72. Do Course Certificates Matter? | 2
  73. How to Germinate Ideas? | 1
  74. Grok translated my coworker's tweet as sexualized | 3
  75. If someone invested $100k now for your startup, how would you spend it? | 2
  76. Impact on LLM development after the USA policy of preliminary vetting | 1
  77. Google AI overview for "keynesian economics" is written in Korean | 4
  78. What is one thing about AI that annoys you the most? | 6
  79. What should I advise my son? | 6
  80. What's your favorite AI tool for front end design? | 1
  81. How to meet and work with likeminded people on the Internet? | 1
  82. Are there any developers prefer writing code manually? | 5
  83. Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro? | 9
  84. AI robbed my joy of reading books? | 11
  85. Haven't posts about web front end frameworks completely stopped? | 3
  86. How do you tackle a backlog of deferred maintenance you didn't create? | 1
  87. How do you handle QA at a startup with no QA team? Genuinely curious | 13
  88. Who here would agree to replace parliaments with LLMs? | 12
  89. How to avoid LLMs struggling with Lisp parens? | 2
  90. Which free video downloader do you trust in 2026? | 3
  91. What is the best way to get survey answers? | 0
  92. Recursive self improvement for human skills | 3
  93. Which AI concepts are here to stay, and which will churn? | 7
  94. As; HN: I was curious why MTP affects PP TPS in llama.cpp. My PoC recovers it? | 1
  95. What do you still love most about AI? | 2
  96. If AI-generated code works 100%, do languages still need to be upgraded? | 4
  97. Is AI dumbing us down? | 3
  98. XFCE4 desktop icons no longer persist positions after 4.20.2 update | 0
  99. We trained a real-time world model for $2k with Minecraft mod revenue | 1
  100. Data Privacy while using API tools | 6