Ask HN ranking for the past week

Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years | 244
Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month | 343
What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? | 656
Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners | 60
Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping? | 135
Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed? | 52
Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts? | 47
Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me | 32
Tell HN: Apple not letting removal of AI models on macOS 27 is outrageous | 27
Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference? | 18
If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival | 48
What's your favorite children's books? | 34
GitHub Is Down (Again) | 1
What games do you religiously play on your phone browser? | 37
Do you still own a printer? | 35
My Apple ID is locked for a week, Apple is a single point of failure | 6
What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing? | 30
You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human | 14
Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software | 25
Our digital privacy is being aggressively disbanded this week | 2
What Is Your Personal Backup Methods | 12
Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code | 4
Aaron Swartz's domain aaronsw.com has expired | 4
Is the Steam Machine worth $1049? | 14
Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model? | 18
What is the actual percentage of people for and against AI? | 55
Whats the first command you run on a new server? | 21
Do employees vastly outnumber founders on Hacker News? | 7
All startups need is distribution | 4
Would you support a law banning filming people in public? | 21
Super Intelligence and/or Artificial Intelligence | 7
Fake abuse reports keep auto-blocking my site on Cloudflare | 1
How do you describe what your relationship brings you? | 11
Orcah Studio: A local-first video agent that can search your videos | 5
How would you feel if we nationalized Google? | 44
Are iPhones the Handheld Version of Flock? | 5
Resources for best practices in software development with AI? | 1
Google Chrome's AI API actively used for device fingerprinting and profiling | 0
How are AI budgets changing in your company? | 2
Chatcasting, an Alternative to Podcasting | 3
Which frontier model can do code security reviews | 9
Locked out of Google despite knowing password and having email access | 2
I am so tired of startups doing worse than me | 13
Google Search is down | 4
Learning practical system design | 1
Claude Agents SDK will no longer use subscription; API credits included in plans | 6
Is the Future of IDEs Bleak? | 9
What do you think about AI generated slides for conferences? | 4
Open source software is slowly turning into open slop software | 6
What do you think about Fractional CFOs | 13
Intelligence Explosion | 6
Curious, who can afford to buy in SF? | 7
How do swarms of AI agents work? | 4
How come everyone is an LLM expert? | 4
What's your plan if AI takes your job? | 13
What are your thoughts on this technology that the American government has? | 14
How to deal with AI "true believer" leadership at work | 7
Do you support shutting down air travel for 2 months to control Russia plague? | 7
Meatpupptry is far creepier than pure "AI" fakery | 0
What is the most obscure book you own? | 4
Tell HN: YouTube is punishing logged-out users | 2
Is this the beginning of the end of open source? | 12
Will mental health improve as AI brings mathematicians down to earth? | 2
Are there things more important than 'humanity', such as empathy? | 7
Mathematics Is Not Real | 6
Vibecoding Follies | 7
How would you go about domain change and getting a job in the domain? | 5
As a Democrat in USA, how can you support AI datacenters? | 1
Why did Microsoft invest in AI that could rewrite its apps from scratch? | 8
Is observability broken for you? | 1
Comprehension Audits: Do Developers Know What They Are Shipping? | 1
Build a hive mind where strangers continue each other's conversations? | 1
RF BrainScan getting out at UN now? | 2
What models and harnesses are you using that are not Claude or Codex? | 2
Anyone accepted into OpenAI "Codex for open source"? | 0
Positive text origin verification | 8
I don't think image containers supporting both lossless and lossy is good | 1
What happened with quantum computers anyway? | 3
Alternatives to NeurIPS, ICLR and ICML | 0
Why today's black banner at top on HN News | 3
Any Insight Here into French High School Unrest? | 1
Can we discourage Show HNs that "ship the first draft" | 1
What is your favorite book of all time, and why? | 5
Is there any defense against LLM-based reverse engineering? | 7
How do you turn videos into searchable text without uploading them? | 2
Why does steam mobile app guard itself | 5
MS Outlook login without an extra email address | 4
ChatGPT self-distances when admitting fault | 1
What to Build in the AI Era? | 10
Is the xcancel source code publicly available? | 1
Vibecoded 3D Game Running on Veda OS | 2
Is anyone still working on dLLMs | 3
Will Microsoft sue vibe coded wordcraft for copying its Word GUI? | 2
Does anyone here still contribute to open source projects? Why? | 7
Pre-AI, did you think harder? Or are you thinking more (and better) now? | 1
Matter: Doesn't Matter? | 2
Scam Warning | 1
How do Lightroom/DxO achieve such good AI denoising results? | 1
What brings you back to personal AI agents like Instinct and Muse? | 1
Tell HN: 2026 is the year of the Linux desktop, agent-adjusted | 3