Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Who is hiring? (August 2026) | 261
  2. Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) | 450
  3. Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search | 58
  4. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links | 11
  5. What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? | 93
  6. Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science? | 64
  7. Is the GitHub pancake menu now a pancake emoji? | 13
  8. Who is quitting? (August 2026) | 1
  9. How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated? | 29
  10. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply | 23
  11. Did GitHub remove the stargazers list? | 1
  12. Anyone still do work on Intel Macs? | 28
  13. Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com? | 17
  14. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt | 21
  15. What are you working on? (August 2026) | 46
  16. Who is firing? (August 2026) | 5
  17. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification | 1
  18. I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills" | 17
  19. Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress | 22
  20. What did you learn last month? (July 2026) | 16
  21. Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer | 4
  22. Have LLMs Plateaued? | 27
  23. Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS | 4
  24. What if there was an 8th day of the week? | 8
  25. Claude multisession | 14
  26. Which web browser has no AI? | 13
  27. Dear Anthropic, can we please have thought traces back? | 6
  28. What's the Point of Your Startup? | 18
  29. Stripe's opt-out Radar price increase dressed up as a free trial | 1
  30. Local, Open source AI meeting recorder that sees and hears everything | 3
  31. How are you using AI to learn? | 23
  32. Telegram is suspected to be removed from the App Store | 4
  33. What was your big failure? How did you get around it? | 5
  34. What's Your BHAG? | 12
  35. What are you using for LLM inference in production? | 4
  36. How are you handling production risks from AI generated code? | 5
  37. How did your boss's behavior change with the rise of AI? | 9
  38. ReAct vs. Planning Pattern | 1
  39. What if we learned languages like we acquired our first? | 9
  40. After 8 Years of Failed Apps, Should I Give Up? | 25
  41. The Mistake That Cost Me a Year | 2
  42. Show your micro-SaaS / MRR updates (August 2026) | 1
  43. Empower the people not the AI – self containing OS | 0
  44. Can Apple Ever Be Disrputed? | 29
  45. Navigating Source Code (especially on large projects) | 3
  46. Tell HN: System76 has critical firmware issues unresolved for over 3 years | 3
  47. Do Something about Bots | 4
  48. What E-Reader to Buy? | 9
  49. I built an independent peptide testing lab that accepts mailed samples | 1
  50. Has anyone solved P2P routing at 100B+ nodes without DHT degradation? | 12
  51. SFR (French Internet provider) is blocking opencode.ai | 4
  52. What is the downside of coaching that I may not be seeing yet? | 3
  53. When do you choose RAG over Fine-Tuning? | 0
  54. Tips for Landing a YC Internship? | 11
  55. How to Pivot? | 7
  56. Mass Loss in Black Hole Merger? How Does That Work? | 4
  57. Do older programmers/CS academics view AI safety as a form of arrogance? | 15
  58. Developers–How Did You Get Your First Paying Customers? | 12
  59. Is the fall of Situational Awareness the first domino? | 5
  60. Grant Writers, Worth It? | 2
  61. When a post of yours does well, do you know why? | 5
  62. ArXiv | 1
  63. GitHub shadowbanned an NPM package with 37M+ weekly downloads | 1
  64. Best Blogging Platform? | 6
  65. What is a good format for a tool to report data to a LLM? | 6
  66. What's your monthly personal AI budget? | 5
  67. Why remote roles are region specific and not 100% remote? | 9
  68. I created Canva Alternative with 200+ Tools | 2
  69. How do you correct spatial reasoning of LLMs? | 7
  70. In post AI world, who is responsible if the code break? | 12
  71. What has your personal website/blog done for you? | 4
  72. How did you fund your startup without VC? | 2
  73. ChatGPT free tier just stopped working, is this just me? | 1
  74. Wyro – Draw a backend on a canvas, export TypeScript with no lock-in | 2
  75. How are you operating AI infrastructure in production? | 0
  76. What's Next for LLMs? | 5
  77. MiniMax H3: Open weights Omni-modal model | 0
  78. So what's next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill) (2023) | 0
  79. What former "must-have" AI agent skills have you deprecated? | 3
  80. Google search filter by date seems broken | 2
  81. Do you ever think about the environmental impacts of the AI datacenters? | 4
  82. ThePirateBay vs. Anthropic | 4
  83. Tell HN: Rising Censorship in German Social Media | 5
  84. Should organizations be allowed to have all types of personl data(X.com) | 0
  85. Why Fireworks doesn't support Voice AI | 0
  86. When did we go from agentic loops to graphs? | 2
  87. Tell HN: On the Boardwalk | 0
  88. Anyone interested in building a harness-only benchmark? | 5
  89. AI Automation Without the Hype | 1
  90. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously | 0
  91. Tell HN: Wife used Chat GPT to set up her new biz domain, email, and website | 2
  92. Tell HN: Seedance 2.5 API Pricing | 1
  93. Which one do you use for planning and coding between sonnet and Opus? | 10
  94. Who Has This Pain? | 6
  95. What's Happening with IT Hiring? | 11
  96. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2026) | 11
  97. Has Claude Code been (mostly) usable for you? | 6
  98. Can we direct AI on our personal projects during work hours? | 8
  99. Are you working 996 hours? | 16
  100. When will ChatGPT Voice be able to control my phone? | 7