Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel | 270
  2. What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI? | 536
  3. Who is hiring? (June 2026) | 424
  4. Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) | 525
  5. What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? | 115
  6. What Is the State of App Development in 2026? | 73
  7. So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking? | 100
  8. Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? | 189
  9. Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware? | 31
  10. Tell HN: Meta's AI support feature allows Instagram accounts to be stolen | 11
  11. Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans? | 55
  12. How do you find deep technical content? | 28
  13. Life saving / first aid posters | 3
  14. I'm Done Using AI | 25
  15. $100 to a Debian Developer who can get Fresh Editor into Trixie | 14
  16. Gin rummy strategies | 4
  17. Are orbital data centers possible / a good idea? | 38
  18. Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js | 10
  19. High school student – is learning programming still worthwhile? | 42
  20. What is your opinion on index rule changes to accommodate Mega-Cap IPOs? | 11
  21. Recruiters, How do you vet resume in 2026? | 9
  22. Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS | 24
  23. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight | 9
  24. Tell HN: In the old days, computers used to get constantly faster and cheaper | 20
  25. Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site? | 23
  26. We're temporarily restricting Show HNs because of an influx | 5
  27. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2026) | 26
  28. What are your worst war stories bringing agentic applications into prod | 7
  29. What's the hardest problem you've ever solved? | 6
  30. My client is replacing me with Claude for all DevOps/infra and most feature dev | 4
  31. The AI cost is going to create a new excuse for mass layoffs | 4
  32. Is Azure capacity this constraind or am I doing it wrong? | 13
  33. Why Ask HN has only 14 questions now? | 3
  34. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens | 0
  35. I Replaced My AI Agent's Flat Fact Store with a Graph Database | 5
  36. My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction | 10
  37. A Brief History of LLMs | 6
  38. What Are You Thankful For? | 8
  39. Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store | 4
  40. Time loop and partial blackhole? | 4
  41. Anyone else observing a Widespread Outage of Archive.* Sites? | 3
  42. How to voice disagreement over S&P500 inclusion rules change for SpaceX? | 2
  43. I made an free unlimited captcha alternative | 3
  44. Is it possible to send a message in Morse code by un-following someone on x.com? | 22
  45. Students, What Impact Is AI Having on Your Education? | 3
  46. How did you discover Hacker News? | 17
  47. Why most of us programmers are men? | 10
  48. Why Fossil DVCS is so awesome for the lone developer; A podcast | 0
  49. Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk | 9
  50. Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides | 4
  51. What's an advice that you no longer give? Why? | 2
  52. Why is AI use decried if it has been used without attribution? | 7
  53. How you pass legacy to others? | 13
  54. What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked? | 4
  55. Donating AI credits to open source projects | 5
  56. The AI tool discovery problem | 8
  57. Non-profit school possibly hacked, locked out of Google Workspace. | 2
  58. What are your digital end-of-life plans? | 4
  59. AI researchers – what's a recent paper that recently blew your mind? | 1
  60. What happens when humans become as dumb as AI? | 4
  61. Architect MCP and TUI | 1
  62. I hadn't coded in 30 years. Then I built a space game with Godot | 2
  63. Does your website show up when ChatGPT recommends tools in your field? | 0
  64. TCNs as Alternative to Transformers? | 3
  65. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests | 0
  66. Am I too pessimistic about Python's future? | 6
  67. Claude Code vs. Codex | 0
  68. Good books/resources for learning SQL? | 3
  69. Angular jasmine unit tests are harder to code/maintain than the actual feature | 0
  70. Is Everyone an Engineer Now? | 8
  71. Corporate Disconnect Between "Tokenmaxxing" and Token Optimization | 7
  72. Hey, you, tech worker–how are you feeling? | 12
  73. Do you give AI agent the specs and have it start building unattended? | 1
  74. I underestimated how hard audio waveforms are in the browser | 3
  75. What are all the ways to punch through NAT? | 6
  76. Do you know any company that's making money with LLMs? | 4
  77. OpenAI's ChatGPT returns another user's response when I paste an image | 2
  78. Is Claude Code down, or its just my region? | 1
  79. Why is it still so hard for LLMs to query NoSQL databases? | 2
  80. Best Claude Code thinking word you've seen? | 5
  81. Heavy coding-agent users what's your context plumbing? Where it fails? | 1
  82. Are there companies that use agent-based modeling? | 1
  83. The HN shadowbanning situation is insane | 7
  84. Anyone missing the human aspect of pre AI? | 1
  85. AI Goal: Senior Software Engineer | 5
  86. How does your company do product management/design/development now? | 0
  87. What's KugelAudio's (YC P26) Moat? | 1
  88. OpenAI new privacy policy to include info about ads in ChatGPT | 1
  89. I am developer in building distributed systems,how to get into Anthropic? | 2
  90. Why are so many Show HNs being flagged? | 6
  91. Reduce Claude costs by changing Effort/Thinking parameters | 0
  92. Anthropic is conditioning our minds | 4
  93. How do people secure their Linux computer? | 5
  94. What email API providers to use for pet project? | 7
  95. What would justify writing a kernel in 2026? | 6
  96. Decentralized Medical Records | 10
  97. My Humble AI Market Prediction | 8
  98. Why is news.ycombinator still relevant and devs keep coming back to it? | 6
  99. Idea for New Social Media | 6
  100. Books for someone who is transitioning from FAANG to finance | 6