Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Tell HN: H&R Block tax software installs a TLS backdoor | 15
  2. Apple terminated our dev account over a rogue employee | 33
  3. AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products? | 206
  4. Apple Discontinues Mac Pro | 5
  5. Tell HN: Russians may soon lose access to the global internet | 19
  6. LLMs learn what programmers create, not how programmers work | 15
  7. Is anyone here also developing "perpetual AI psychosis" like Karpathy? | 27
  8. Tired of AI When will this era end? | 17
  9. Tell HN: MS365 upgrade silently to 25 licenses, tried to charge me $1,035 | 8
  10. God, I hate .env files | 13
  11. Tell HN: In the UK, iOS 26.4 needs an age check to change content restrictions | 0
  12. Running legacy IE/ActiveX clients without local admin rights? | 16
  13. Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it? | 5
  14. what’s your favorite line in your Claude/agents.md files? | 12
  15. How many of you are profiting with LLM wrapper apps? | 5
  16. Are AI Agents like von Hammerstein's industrious and stupid? | 10
  17. What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years? | 6
  18. $50 monthly budget, which coding models would you recommend now? | 23
  19. Tell HN: Slow Down | 7
  20. How do you offload all coding to AI? | 13
  21. How did you figure out what you wanted to do with your life? | 28
  22. Looking for programmers who don't use and don't want to use AI | 28
  23. I got laid off and realized how broken tech hiring is | 30
  24. Anyone know how long it will take to re-start Qatar's helium plants? | 5
  25. GitHub now requiring 2FA for all contributors,what authenticator apps you using? | 21
  26. Is using AI tooling for a PhD literature review dishonest? | 29
  27. Why is a "War ON Iran" being labelled as a "War IN Iran"? | 9
  28. Skills are quietly becoming the unit of agent knowledge | 13
  29. Archive.is Reads Bitwarden Data? | 1
  30. Rses – cross-resume between Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode | 5
  31. How does one get rich in 2026? | 10
  32. Sexual Harassment by Japan Railways Staff and Japan's Accessibility Barriers | 0
  33. At what point you decided to pursue your startup fulltime? | 15
  34. Tell HN: YouTube - the "Jewel of the Internet" has faded | 8
  35. How much are you spending on AI coding at work? | 12
  36. If there has been no prompt injection, is it safe? | 8
  37. Analog Model of Transformers | 2
  38. Is anyone else experiencing AI fatigue? | 4
  39. Is Google AI overview good enough now? | 3
  40. Structural Friction: A metric for human coordination cost | 0
  41. How do you handle peer-to-peer discovery on iOS without a server? | 6
  42. Why so many dead comments? | 2
  43. Has Claude Code quality level degraded lately? | 5
  44. Is Antigravity code search dropping results recently? | 0
  45. Does nobody care about not being able to copy from Slack anymore? | 4
  46. Tell HN: Llamacpp now supports unified system RAM offloading on Linux | 0
  47. Are you more quickly hitting Claude Code limits the past 48-96 hours? | 3
  48. Are you using OpenClaw or similar agents? How? | 12
  49. What features does a chip require to beat Nvidia in the AI race? | 13
  50. The orderbook dynamics of prediction markets | 0
  51. How to get free/cheap Claude and AWS credits | 6
  52. Does HN have a DR plan for censorship? | 6
  53. Is operational memory a missing layer in AI agent architecture? | 0
  54. Do you feel less happy when coding with agent? | 15
  55. When Will AI Disappear? | 14
  56. Veevo Health – book a CT angiogram to see plaque buildup in your arteries | 3
  57. Growth for me,is realizing how much I didn't know 6 months ago. Yours? | 4
  58. Personalized mRNA cancer vaccines, how real is the pipeline today? | 4
  59. Why isn't the NSA categorized as an APT? | 8
  60. Screaming into the AI Void | 2
  61. Flowroute locked my account after passing identity verification, won't say why | 0
  62. Does the World need more software? | 14
  63. Tell HN: [email protected] no longer operational | 0
  64. Anyone trading prediction markets programmatically? | 5
  65. Are there any merchant of records that don't dox you? | 4
  66. What are you using to run dev environments safely on macOS these days? | 0
  67. Cortex – Local-first AI memory engine, beats Mem0 on LoCoMo, encrypted, free | 1
  68. Do you give OpenClaw access to your personal accounts? | 2
  69. Claude Is Down Again | 1
  70. "Systemd" Aternatives | 0
  71. What should I do to land a position soon? | 5
  72. Is the AI software developer demand destruction narrative accurate? | 3
  73. Friction Is Everything | 1
  74. AGPLv3 argument against clean room (re)engineering | 2
  75. Tell HN: Eid Mubarak | 0
  76. Is anyone here giving their MCP server a code execution environment? | 1
  77. How do you feel when your coding assistant loses context? | 16
  78. Remote small business in Africa is an asymmetric opportunity | 0
  79. I'm 11 and trained a custom MoE LLM for $1 | 0
  80. SparkVSR: Video Super-Resolution You Can Control with Keyframes | 0
  81. Podcast Video: Kubernetes at the Edge | 0
  82. Should a conscious AI be given Human rights? | 2
  83. Are AI mandates a good idea? | 16
  84. Kindle update 5.19.2 is the worst Kindle update of all time IMO | 0
  85. Any recommended engineering/dev related Slack channels? | 2
  86. Is X down? | 6
  87. Are you also getting more angry with Claude as you use it for longer? | 1
  88. Does it make sense to ask Blackberry to re-license ancient QNX sources? | 3
  89. How do you handle clients who ghost after receiving deliverables? | 12
  90. What shell/terminal setup would you recommend to beginners today? | 3
  91. Lc command – combines ls, cat, and nano – useful when you don't have home/end | 3
  92. How do you deal with obvious AI assistant usage in interviews | 8
  93. Debunking Classical Pseudo-Paradoxes of Logic | 5
  94. Is AI Safety a Paradox? | 8
  95. What would you do if you have AI software that may be transformers alternative? | 5
  96. How do I contribute to OSS without giving training data to AI companies? | 3
  97. Is there a secret satellite war? | 4
  98. How are you securing LLM code agents? | 4
  99. Why do we train AI on one-on-one dialogues instead of group dynamics? | 5
  100. AI companies' bots are making my server slow, what do you do? | 3