Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Who is hiring? (May 2026) | 471
  2. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA | 249
  3. Who wants to be hired? (May 2026) | 488
  4. Is the Job Market Actually Bad? | 203
  5. Who wants to be fired? (May 2026) | 24
  6. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated | 4
  7. Is anyone seriously considering a career change? | 20
  8. Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption? | 32
  9. Tell HN: The saddest irony of my/our craft | 16
  10. Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow? | 9
  11. Time to add option in Hacker News "AI excluded Show HN" | 5
  12. Best Embedding Models? | 18
  13. Why didn't functional programming work for you? | 1
  14. Claude Code dies with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in cloud environment | 2
  15. The death of software development as a job? | 26
  16. Claude Pro expired and my $40 in prepaid Extra Usage credits vanished | 6
  17. Tell HN: Happy May Day | 5
  18. Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026) | 8
  19. SlothDB a 5X Faster Alternative to DuckDB, ClickHouse DB | 10
  20. Tell HN: Claude Opus 4.7 quota suddenly changed to 0 TPM in Bedrock | 6
  21. .de TLD Issue Solved | 0
  22. Can anyone point me to a ShowHN first post policy documentation? | 12
  23. Looking for Technical Co-Founder | 0
  24. Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible? | 11
  25. Where are you getting your AI news from? | 15
  26. Where can I go to ask for help? | 6
  27. Is AI resulting in net revenue gain for non-tech companies? | 9
  28. What's your favorite HN post? | 2
  29. Why hasn't someone built a decentralized compute network? | 7
  30. Do you feel reading AI generated readme tiring? | 2
  31. Tell HN: Claude account suspension after flagging duplicate billing | 0
  32. Reviewing in the Age of AI | 5
  33. Does Claude Code succeed after being asked "should we give up?" for you? | 1
  34. Building a Web Framework from Scratch | 1
  35. When did you move from AI agentic loops to simpler deterministic system? | 5
  36. ow's you experience building an app on Cloudflare? (Workers, D1,R2 etc.) | 0
  37. Hyperscalers are buying all the chips to then rent them to us later | 4
  38. GitHub flagged my org two weeks ago. No reason given, no appeal response | 0
  39. Rant, Am I bad or is this a company with a poor tech culture? | 28
  40. Tell HN: Archive.ph Is Gone | 5
  41. Why Does a Single Firefox Tab Take Almost 1.5GB RAM? | 9
  42. How to Sell as a Software Engineer? | 2
  43. Is the future everyone having 100 MCP processes running on their PC? | 4
  44. Is Anybody Using Codex? | 11
  45. Ramp.com Offering Incentives to Agents | 0
  46. Do I just forget everything I've learned? | 1
  47. Why would we care about "extended time horizons" and LLMs? | 5
  48. Tell HN: Fossil SCM Server Overloaded | 0
  49. Codex's precision and attention to detail is *crazy* when set up correctly | 13
  50. SQL access to crypto market data, not just JSON | 0
  51. What tech hobbies are worth exploring? | 1
  52. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2026) | 12
  53. How to start up as an individual developer? | 3
  54. How do you and your partner decide what to do on date nights? | 4
  55. Does Claude use 'prior' in a Bayesian sense more than English? | 6
  56. We scanned 100 Smithery MCP servers, 22 flagged, here's what we found | 5
  57. How do you feel about AI assisted blogging? | 7
  58. How do I get freelance developer jobs? | 6
  59. What book have you given as a gift? | 15
  60. What Happened to the CS153 Videos | 3
  61. Are employers getting the returns from AI? | 6
  62. What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers? | 6
  63. Vision agents vs. structured APIs on the same internal tool task | 0
  64. What do you think of people buying Mac mini's to run AI? | 20
  65. What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated? | 2
  66. Is reviewing phase on development getting worse? | 1
  67. I just sent out my first Quote as a business owner | 2
  68. Anyone using AI agents for active learning sprints? Here's my setup | 4
  69. Does your employer require everyone to use the same AI model? | 2
  70. Making Postman load 60% Faster | 4
  71. I was wrong about vibe coding on greenfield projects. | 2
  72. What did your 'Show HN' project turn into? | 4
  73. May the Fourth Be with You | 0
  74. Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? | 4
  75. What Are You Building? | 1
  76. Where are SWE's being replaced? | 1
  77. Best way to develop games for beginners | 11
  78. If there're so many advanced vibecoders mad at GitHub, where's everyone? | 2
  79. Can I trust GitHub not to use my code for LLM training? | 4
  80. What's the best way to handle large file P2P transfer in the browser? | 2
  81. Ten Yrs from now, when only AI codes, what's the stack? | 3
  82. Have you ever thought of leaving programming for something else? | 3
  83. What do you want to see in a next-generation GitHub in the age of AI? | 8
  84. Make HN great again: Neovim vs. IDEs | 3
  85. Where is my UX after all those billions spent on LLM codegen? | 1
  86. I'm looking for an AI Automation Engineer role or gig | 1
  87. What will you do once you get old? | 8
  88. What do you say when the AI asks "Let me know if you'd like me to proceed." | 6
  89. How long do you commute by car each day? | 14
  90. Opus 4.7 is unusable. I am tired of the apologies | 5
  91. Need Some Testers | 9
  92. Where to Look for Civil Discussions? | 2
  93. Got into Jai closed beta on March 2026 | 7
  94. Is writing code by hand still a necessary skill for developers? | 5
  95. How do you show your free software projects to the world? | 8
  96. Would HN Accept PRs? | 8
  97. Alternatives to VSCode? | 9
  98. In the age of AI do we need to learn how to code? | 3
  99. What are you working on? (May 2026) | 6
  100. What are tarpit ideas in the AI era? | 4