Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident? | 105
  2. Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers | 55
  3. When did computers stop being fun? | 104
  4. Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion? | 35
  5. Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now? | 26
  6. Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down | 18
  7. Tell HN: Mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles to send spam | 6
  8. Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please | 11
  9. Did moving to new place have intended effect? | 13
  10. What LLM models are you using and why? | 16
  11. Company is rapidly cutting AI tool spend how to prep team? | 13
  12. What are you working on? (May 21) | 48
  13. Do you still spend time maintaining Claude.md / AGENTS.md files? | 10
  14. Have I Become a Luddite? | 12
  15. Valgrind-3.27.1 Is Available | 1
  16. How to enforce engineers to understand the code they are shipping | 22
  17. Sorry, what Was FiveThirtyEight? | 6
  18. Tell HN: Gemini 3.5 Flash breaks in stupid ways | 2
  19. Anyone else struggling with AI and work? | 6
  20. Tell HN: DeepSeek-V4-Pro 75% discount promo is now permanent | 0
  21. "An (important) message from Infomaniak's founder" | 1
  22. US is planning another Invasion (Cuba).Can Congress/public stop this? | 3
  23. Are there any social media sites that are AI positive? | 5
  24. Suggest Google Antigravity Alternative | 12
  25. OpenAI, SpaceX/xAI, Anthropic all to IPO, is this a sign of the peak? | 7
  26. How does everyone talk about their work when they've used AI? | 10
  27. Are coding interview still relevant? | 3
  28. How do word docs, slides, excel, and PDFs generate value? | 10
  29. SlothDB is an OLAP DB ahead of DuckDB on Clickbench SQL database in C++20 | 4
  30. Natural Language App Testing? | 0
  31. Anthropic is killing stainless, so we built our own SDK/MCP generator | 1
  32. How concerned are you about a debt crisis? | 2
  33. State of Photonic (AI) Computing | 1
  34. Do you enjoy reading any type of AI written text? | 11
  35. Note-taking software,Novel ideas | 11
  36. How much AI is in your writing? | 21
  37. Could free/low cost LLMs be a momentary thing? | 13
  38. How do you approach a new codebase? | 4
  39. Do you know what data your AI coding agent sends to the cloud? | 6
  40. Are LLMs creating busy work? | 7
  41. Peak unemployment for a software engineer. What did I do wrong? | 2
  42. Does root have to be uid 0? Does uid 0 have to be root? | 4
  43. How to increase depth instead of breadth as 10 yoe as swe? | 2
  44. What to learn and do, that makes me least affected by AI in STEM? | 3
  45. Favorite In-Depth Deep Dives | 1
  46. What are Stainless users doing now that Anthropic has killed it? | 3
  47. Hacker's Manual 2025 error at page 29 | 0
  48. Search engines and me. Is the classic internet dying? [off-topic] | 5
  49. What's New in Crypto? | 7
  50. Has anyone here ever rebuilt themselves in their late 30s? | 2
  51. Are advances in AI going to push Linux to a micro-kernel? | 9
  52. The Oats Protocol – Open Agent Tools for Local Coding Agents | 0
  53. How to manage AI APIs for SaaS application? | 6
  54. How are you proving your writing is human made? | 3
  55. If entry-level jobs are gone, does career change become impossible? | 1
  56. What AI prompts have you found most reliable for actual work? | 4
  57. The LLM Death Spiral | 1
  58. Forbid Reddit HN Submissions? | 5
  59. I'm building a SaaS with ZERO AI features in 2026 | 0
  60. How often do you code the expected way instead of a better one? | 5
  61. Tell HN: Render.com cuts included bandwidth on Pro plan, from 1 TB to 25GB | 1
  62. How to make the best of the Mega IPO/ Index fund debacle? | 3
  63. Is grpcurl home page compromised? | 0
  64. What's your go-to LLM for coding? | 2
  65. Is Java the ideal language for LLM-assisted coding? | 4
  66. "Subligence" – proposed coinage for LLM "intelligence" | 5
  67. How to make a mono-repo AI-Ready? | 4
  68. Tell HN: Typical AI Conversation | 2
  69. How would you grow a screen recording app after hitting $3.5K MRR? | 2
  70. How are you handling the identity sprawl in your company/startup? | 3
  71. How can I get interviews when "who wants to be hired" isn't working? | 2
  72. Danger or Fun? encoding secret messages into HN comments | 8
  73. Does anyone believe role-play AI is effective for training? | 1
  74. Reliability Issues with AWS | 0
  75. Pynear 2.3 Is Out | 0
  76. Windows on Mobile Screen | 0
  77. What are you working on (20 May) | 3
  78. Any remote job options for devs? | 0
  79. Can one run AI on source code with the prompt "Find below-avg swear rate files"? | 2
  80. Signals vs. Noise: How to spot architectural shifts | 0
  81. New on Platform | 1
  82. Hacker News London Meetup #8 | 0
  83. Is HN Blocking Mullvad VPN? | 3
  84. Has anyone solved Amazon's animated GIF captcha programmatically? | 0
  85. What I learned from tinkering with programming languages in the last 34 days | 2
  86. Why do hotels etc. WiFi networks all use captive portals? | 2
  87. Opus 4.7 vs. Sonnet 4.6 | 5
  88. Should I learn to code in 2026? | 5
  89. How are agentic workflows meant to offset AI debt? | 0
  90. Why does it look like LLMs consistently overestimate implementation time? | 12
  91. Debatable but likely not insane: there MAY be an issue with SpaceX' hiring | 1
  92. Mullvad WireGuard exit IP design may allow user fingerprinting across servers | 1
  93. You can issue a 15-year SSL certificate today. Why almost nobody does | 5
  94. Who needs contributors? (May 2026) | 0
  95. Are all the YC founders lying offlate? | 0
  96. Antigravity 2.0 installer breaks existing Antigravity IDEs | 1
  97. Is the next big thing locally running coding agents? | 13
  98. Go all in on startup idea, or stay W2 | 37
  99. What are your plans for the AI future? | 7
  100. How does ranking work for Tell HN? | 4