Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives | 112
  2. AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human | 45
  3. How do you employ LLMs for UI development? | 65
  4. Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need? | 43
  5. ChatGPT finds an error in Terence Tao's math research | 2
  6. Have you ever cloned a cat? | 42
  7. Is it worth learning Vim in 2026? | 35
  8. Anyone else tired of working in tech? | 42
  9. How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails? | 36
  10. My first experience with an "AI"-ed call centre? | 15
  11. Claude Code talking about unexpected, different projects | 8
  12. So Claude's stealing our business secrets, right? | 17
  13. Anam Cara-3: Why we think AI needs a face | 5
  14. How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool? | 17
  15. Tell HN: Attackers using Google parental controls to prevent account recovery | 4
  16. GLP-1 Second-Order Effects | 9
  17. Is AI the final nail in the coffin for solo developers? | 44
  18. Are you a SWE that lost job purely due to AI? Share your story | 3
  19. Reddit Ads support is leaking PII and actively crossing user sessions | 1
  20. How to measure how much data one can effectively process or understand? | 8
  21. Is HN becoming more toxic? | 13
  22. MCPs are dead - CLIs won | 28
  23. If the "AI bubble" pops, will it really be that dramatic? | 12
  24. What (other) jobs do you think of doing? | 21
  25. 56% of PyPI malware runs at install, so I sandboxed pip with eBPF | 0
  26. Are hackathons still worth doing? | 10
  27. Tell HN: We analyzed our dev time.80% is still infrastructure'setup',notfeatures | 4
  28. What YC Is Betting On? | 7
  29. I'm 15 and built a platform for developers to showcase WIP projects | 6
  30. Cognitive Offloading to AI | 6
  31. How do you overcome imposter syndrome? | 21
  32. What happens to all the hardware when data centers upgrade? | 9
  33. (Your) Request for Startups? | 9
  34. What breaks when you run AI agents unsupervised? | 7
  35. Programmable Watches with WiFi? | 5
  36. Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff? | 22
  37. Tell HN: Ramadan Mubarak | 6
  38. Why doesn't HN have a rec algorithm? | 19
  39. Stripe closed our non-profit's account with 0% | 12
  40. Tell HN: Claude mangles XML files with <name> as an XML Tag to <n> | 3
  41. The $2k Laptop That Replaced My $200/Month AI Subscription | 4
  42. Why are there no talks about Seedance 2.0 on Hacker News? | 7
  43. Is there a reliable way to tell if an image is AI generated? | 9
  44. Any AI / Agent power users out there? Do you have any tips? | 9
  45. Why don't entrepreneurs talk about starting businesses publicly anymore? | 9
  46. What Comes After Markdown? | 13
  47. Would you choose the Microsoft stack today if starting greenfield? | 7
  48. What Linux Would Be a Good Transition from Windows 11 | 11
  49. Why don't software developers make medical devices? | 19
  50. I'm investing $100k in cool people with boring skills. Any leads? | 5
  51. HN is an echo chamber of AI wrappers. Moving to Slashdot | 3
  52. What is up with all the glitchy and off-topic comments? | 1
  53. Who Should I Talk To? | 4
  54. Can a license make large corporations give back? | 9
  55. I made $15K/month at 13. Built a YC startup at 20. Still looking for my person | 4
  56. Anyone else exhausted by too rapid development of news? | 5
  57. Do US presidents have less fiduciary liability than CEOs? | 18
  58. Sayou – Open-source Dropbox for AI agents | 4
  59. Anthropic's pricing wall is routing enterprise revenue to OpenAI | 1
  60. Write Perfect Emails in Seconds | 3
  61. Claude web blocked its assets visit via csp? | 2
  62. Does anyone use CrewAI or LangChain anymore? | 2
  63. Facebook Is Doing A-Okay | 2
  64. Chinese New Year v.s. Lunar New Year | 4
  65. Why don't we have a global, unified database for scam reputation? | 4
  66. Is it better to have no Agent.md than a bad one? | 5
  67. Why has Apple made it impossible to reset Bluetooth state on macOS? | 0
  68. We Built UltrafastSecp256k1 Up to 51% Faster ECC Across x86,ARM64,and RISC-V | 0
  69. Claude crashed? Am I playing for the tokens for it to fix itself? | 2
  70. Tell HN: Google Allegedly Sent NSFW "Grok" Notification to People | 0
  71. Frameworks for 2D Browser Games? | 3
  72. ChatGPT Now Enforces Data Access Controls | 3
  73. How do you monitor and retry failed webhooks in production? | 6
  74. Grand Time: Time-Based Models in Decentralized Trust | 0
  75. Tell HN: npm download stats are broken | 0
  76. How are early-stage AI startups thinking about IP protection? | 3
  77. How do new blogs break the backlink–indexing loop? | 5
  78. Humanity Has Managed to Fall into Time Loop Regarding "AI" | 7
  79. Peer validation platform for engineering skills (inspired by X community notes) | 16
  80. Account was suspended permanently from hostinger | 2
  81. In SF for a couple of days, looking for someone that can host us in their office | 1
  82. I made my favorite AI tool | 4
  83. Is the original iPhone SE just a brick now? | 5
  84. Stripe closed our account over upsell transaction architecture, not fraud | 1
  85. Why were green and amber CRTs more comfortable to read? | 11
  86. Tell HN: A production-ready "Hello World" is now ~600 files | 4
  87. What are your favourite personal blogs? | 1
  88. Picknar – Lightweight YouTube Thumbnail Extractor (No Login, No API Key) | 2
  89. How do I get started in AI? | 2
  90. In Cursor/agents, do plugins hide MCP tools from the main agent? | 4
  91. How do you debug multi-step AI workflows when the output is wrong? | 7
  92. CFO says "Everyone uses Excel, definitely not Sheets. Get over it". True? | 6
  93. As HN: Why is no one using my free library? | 12
  94. Do You Love My "Assess Idea" (AI) Robo-Reply Side Project Idea? | 5
  95. What are the nicest apps you use day to day? | 2
  96. How did you get your drive back? | 13
  97. In the Age of AI, How Do I Grow as a Software Engineer? | 5
  98. Back end where you just define schema, access policy, and functions | 5
  99. Warning to Humanity: Why We Must Not Trust the AI "Fluency Trap" | 3
  100. Tell HN: Name on a Brick | 8