Ask HN ranking for the past week
- Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel | 270
- What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI? | 1077
- Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? | 739
- Who is hiring? (June 2026) | 436
- What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? | 130
- Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) | 545
- So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking? | 102
- How do you find deep technical content? | 28
- Life saving / first aid posters | 4
- Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans? | 57
- I'm Done Using AI | 25
- Are we as society going to let LLM companies take all the values? | 14
- Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js | 13
- Are orbital data centers possible / a good idea? | 40
- Gin rummy strategies | 4
- Learn from my lesson, don't take your pre seed through stripe = Account Closure | 8
- Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight | 13
- How are thinking efforts implemented? | 13
- High school student – is learning programming still worthwhile? | 42
- What is your opinion on index rule changes to accommodate Mega-Cap IPOs? | 11
- Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens | 1
- Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site? | 23
- Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS | 25
- Tell HN: In the old days, computers used to get constantly faster and cheaper | 20
- We're temporarily restricting Show HNs because of an influx | 5
- Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2026) | 28
- My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction | 17
- The AI cost is going to create a new excuse for mass layoffs | 4
- Is Azure capacity this constraind or am I doing it wrong? | 15
- Tell HN: Stripe ToS update demands biometrics, freezes payments until given | 2
- Why Ask HN has only 14 questions now? | 3
- How did you discover Hacker News? | 30
- I Replaced My AI Agent's Flat Fact Store with a Graph Database | 5
- A Brief History of LLMs | 7
- Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store | 4
- Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides | 4
- Time loop and partial blackhole? | 4
- Anyone else observing a Widespread Outage of Archive.* Sites? | 3
- How to voice disagreement over S&P500 inclusion rules change for SpaceX? | 2
- Is it possible to send a message in Morse code by un-following someone on x.com? | 23
- How to get my contact info off US political party's list | 3
- I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests | 0
- Why most of us programmers are men? | 10
- Why Fossil DVCS is so awesome for the lone developer; A podcast | 0
- Does robotics capabilities research accelerate AGI timelines? | 1
- Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk | 8
- Why is AI use decried if it has been used without attribution? | 7
- Is Everyone an Engineer Now? | 12
- What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked? | 4
- The AI tool discovery problem | 9
- What are the best unknown books you have read? | 3
- Non-profit school possibly hacked, locked out of Google Workspace. | 2
- What are your digital end-of-life plans? | 4
- AI researchers – what's a recent paper that recently blew your mind? | 1
- What happens when humans become as dumb as AI? | 4
- Architect MCP and TUI | 1
- I hadn't coded in 30 years. Then I built a space game with Godot | 2
- Tell HN: Helium is the best browser I ever used | 7
- Does anyone know since when we are close to building in space? | 2
- What are the best examples of good technical writing you know of? | 5
- How do you stay up to date without information overload? | 4
- Am I too pessimistic about Python's future? | 6
- Claude Code vs. Codex | 0
- Is Claude Code down, or its just my region? | 1
- Good books/resources for learning SQL? | 3
- Angular jasmine unit tests are harder to code/maintain than the actual feature | 0
- Where do you get the latest updates about AI? | 2
- Hey, you, tech worker–how are you feeling? | 13
- Do you give AI agent the specs and have it start building unattended? | 1
- I underestimated how hard audio waveforms are in the browser | 3
- What are all the ways to punch through NAT? | 6
- Can't a developer publish add-on for Outlook in Microsoft Marketplace? | 1
- What is the value of releasing software that leaves people unemployed? | 0
- For non-hackers/nerds, why do you read HN? | 5
- What's good for VR these days, free and paid | 4
- Do you know any company that's making money with LLMs? | 5
- Are your hidden links missing? | 3
- OpenAI's ChatGPT returns another user's response when I paste an image | 2
- Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data? | 1
- Why is it still so hard for LLMs to query NoSQL databases? | 2
- Best Claude Code thinking word you've seen? | 5
- Heavy coding-agent users what's your context plumbing? Where it fails? | 1
- Are there companies that use agent-based modeling? | 1
- The HN shadowbanning situation is insane | 7
- AI efficiency in the workplace | 5
- AI Goal: Senior Software Engineer | 5
- What's KugelAudio's (YC P26) Moat? | 1
- What would you name your own LLM? | 2
- OpenAI new privacy policy to include info about ads in ChatGPT | 1
- I am developer in building distributed systems,how to get into Anthropic? | 2
- Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI? | 3
- Tell HN: Pearl's "useful" PoW AI mining is vaporware | 1
- Why are so many Show HNs being flagged? | 6
- Miz Framework Story | 8
- Reduce Claude costs by changing Effort/Thinking parameters | 0
- Anthropic is conditioning our minds | 4
- How do people secure their Linux computer? | 5
- Been trying to post and I am getting flagged for it | 10
- Will your company be doing "LeetCode" interviews a year from now? | 7
- My Humble AI Market Prediction | 8