Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Who is hiring? (February 2026) | 511
  2. Kernighan on Programming | 61
  3. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies | 102
  4. Who wants to be hired? (February 2026) | 514
  5. Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules? | 122
  6. Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience? | 176
  7. Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam | 54
  8. Tell HN: I'm a PM at a big system of record SaaS. We're cooked | 38
  9. Do you still use physical calculators? | 125
  10. Where do all the web devs talk? | 52
  11. Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era? | 66
  12. GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage" | 17
  13. Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM? | 28
  14. 10 months since the Llama-4 release: what happened to Meta AI? | 11
  15. Why do people still talk about AGI? | 64
  16. Signal Is Down | 10
  17. Tell HN: Claude Code Is Down | 12
  18. Who is firing? (February 2026) | 3
  19. Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups? | 18
  20. Non AI-obsessed tech forums | 15
  21. Is Connecting via SSH Risky? | 37
  22. Has your whole engineering team gone big into AI coding? How's it going? | 12
  23. Have you been fired because of AI? | 15
  24. Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing) | 16
  25. OpenClaw users, what is your token spend? | 6
  26. Any Successful Co-Ops of Software Engineers | 14
  27. What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users? | 10
  28. What serious task have you accomplished with Moltbot / OpenClaw? | 6
  29. Anyone have a "sovereign" solution for phone calls? | 1
  30. How Containers Work: Building Container Networking from Scratch | 0
  31. LuaJIT maintainers quietly deleted discussion about RISC-V 64 support | 0
  32. Ideas for small ways to make the world a better place | 17
  33. AI Agents as Autonomous Founders | 7
  34. GitHub Incidents with Actions and Codespaces | 4
  35. Does anyone have interests in anything besides AI? | 7
  36. Mem0 stores memories, but doesn't learn user patterns | 6
  37. Tell HN: Anthropic is down (Sonnet 5 imminent?) | 1
  38. XCancel but for Instagram? | 1
  39. When will LLMs generate professional-level CAD models? | 6
  40. Moltbook is proof that GenAI was a scam | 10
  41. Does a good "read it later" app exist? | 18
  42. GitHub Actions is broken again | 5
  43. Nobody clicked on a "Show HN" project I put my heart into. Now what? | 12
  44. Is a RAM-only PWA "Secure Camera" safe for journalists? | 12
  45. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2026) | 22
  46. What are you working on? (February 2026) | 39
  47. What's your biggest LLM cost multiplier? | 6
  48. Will crypto currencies survive past this market downturn? | 4
  49. What is going on with Crypto and metals? | 8
  50. How do you manage context/memory across multiple AI tools? | 5
  51. Is it just me or are most businesses insane? | 5
  52. Have you found that coding agents make you more civil IRL? | 3
  53. AI Regex Scientist: A self-improving regex solver | 1
  54. Google terminated my YouTube channel even thought I made no videos or used it | 4
  55. Tech Debt War Stories | 8
  56. Are ISPs "evil" and who runs the Internet? | 3
  57. In the wake of the Epstein files – will there be an analog resurgence? | 6
  58. Tell HN: OpenAI's Codex CLI is currently free to use | 1
  59. "100% of our code is written by AI" | 5
  60. How do you give AI agents access without over-permissioning? | 14
  61. Why dead code detection in Python is harder than most tools admit | 1
  62. Ona is launching its Open Source program to help maintainers fight AI slop | 1
  63. Datacenter capex gravy train is over | 4
  64. Why is Hacker News popular? | 3
  65. Are you still using spec driven development? | 7
  66. Has your upper management been one-shotted by AI hype? | 1
  67. Convex is the best back end for AI coding | 0
  68. How do you deal with SEO nowadays? | 8
  69. How to read out loud articles with equations and code? | 0
  70. Does global decoupling from the USA signal comeback of the desktop app? | 2
  71. How do you handle auth when AI dev agents spin up short-lived apps? | 9
  72. We built a serverless GPU inference platform with predictable latency | 1
  73. Who's Coding on Their Phone? | 13
  74. How does ChatGPT decide which websites to recommend? | 11
  75. CiderStack – Native macOS VM manager, pay once, no subscription | 2
  76. Why not have a subreddit where all voting is done by a single AI? | 9
  77. My small SaaS got recommended my Google in the AI search overview | 3
  78. Interest in a "Who's looking for funding?" post | 0
  79. Will AI Replace Builders? | 3
  80. How many hours do you work per week? | 5
  81. Code is getting cheaper. Building is not | 0
  82. I2P is currently facing an ongoing attack on its network | 0
  83. Who's Looking for Funding? | 1
  84. Do you subscribe to any magazines/publications | 5
  85. How Did You Validate? | 4
  86. A simple HTTPS, HTTP/3, SSL and security headers checker I built with AI | 2
  87. DietPi released a new version v10.0 | 0
  88. How do I unlock the Activation Lock on my M1 MacBook? | 6
  89. YC S26 Application: "Attach a coding agent session you're particularly proud of" | 1
  90. Task engine VM – for tasks with executable instructions (progress update) | 3
  91. The Next Big OS Leap | 30
  92. Why so little news from China? | 5
  93. Where does operational truth live before it reaches "systems of record"? | 8
  94. Have LLMs improved the lives of the blind? | 0
  95. Good resources to learn how to write well? | 3
  96. Mind controlling the public via narratives | 0
  97. Why LLM providers sell access instead of consulting services? | 13
  98. Tell HN: We Are in Recession Now | 2
  99. Those holding large amounts of software stock, how much have you lost? | 1
  100. Has Hacker News already been Infiltrated by Clawd Bots? | 4