Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Who is hiring? (August 2026) | 308
  2. Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) | 518
  3. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links | 21
  4. What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? | 93
  5. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously | 21
  6. Did GitHub remove the stargazers list? | 3
  7. Who is quitting? (August 2026) | 1
  8. How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated? | 29
  9. Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there? | 6
  10. What are you working on? (August 2026) | 54
  11. Who is firing? (August 2026) | 5
  12. US and China race to be first to build Skynet. Either way we're F'ed | 11
  13. Is Ask HN Shrinking? | 14
  14. Show your micro-SaaS / MRR updates (August 2026) | 9
  15. Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer | 5
  16. Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS | 4
  17. Have LLMs Plateaued? | 29
  18. What if there was an 8th day of the week? | 8
  19. Claude multisession | 14
  20. If Social network is created today, what do you want to see? | 44
  21. Dear Anthropic, can we please have thought traces back? | 7
  22. Local, Open source AI meeting recorder that sees and hears everything | 3
  23. How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents? | 7
  24. How Google makes sure your phones doesn't work without it | 3
  25. Telegram is suspected to be removed from the App Store | 4
  26. What was your big failure? How did you get around it? | 5
  27. What's Your BHAG? | 12
  28. Empower the people not the AI – self containing OS | 0
  29. Tell HN: Tally Data Breach | 3
  30. ReAct vs. Planning Pattern | 1
  31. What if we learned languages like we acquired our first? | 9
  32. Anybody tried Laguna S 2.1 (by Poolside)? | 2
  33. When do you choose RAG over Fine-Tuning? | 0
  34. Are You Preparing for the Singularity | 19
  35. Developers–How Did You Get Your First Paying Customers? | 16
  36. Has anyone solved P2P routing at 100B+ nodes without DHT degradation? | 13
  37. What is the downside of coaching that I may not be seeing yet? | 3
  38. Tips for Landing a YC Internship? | 11
  39. How to Pivot? | 7
  40. What art would you like to express? | 14
  41. Why Fireworks doesn't support Voice AI | 2
  42. How AI is breaking the British State | 4
  43. Suggest some uncensored AI for photo genaration? | 1
  44. What is a good advice for someone looking to fractional hire a team? | 6
  45. Google Captcha on Search, absurdities beyond belief | 4
  46. ArXiv | 1
  47. AI Video Taking over YouTube | 4
  48. Anyone interested in building a harness-only benchmark? | 5
  49. What is a good format for a tool to report data to a LLM? | 6
  50. Why remote roles are region specific and not 100% remote? | 9
  51. How do you correct spatial reasoning of LLMs? | 7
  52. In post AI world, who is responsible if the code break? | 12
  53. What has your personal website/blog done for you? | 4
  54. Poker and Liar's Dice over Bluetooth Low Energy | 3
  55. Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland? | 2
  56. How are you operating AI infrastructure in production? | 0
  57. What's Next for LLMs? | 5
  58. So what's next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill) (2023) | 0
  59. Sane casual family co-op game on mobile? | 4
  60. Do you ever think about the environmental impacts of the AI datacenters? | 4
  61. ThePirateBay vs. Anthropic | 4
  62. Is there any Hacker News but for investing/trading/economics etc.? | 7
  63. Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes | 2
  64. What is your database size | 3
  65. Things I learned about how people use AI after 1800 people | 1
  66. What would make you list your AI product on a new marketplace? | 3
  67. Tell HN: On the Boardwalk | 0
  68. What will be the Chernobyl or Bhopal scale industrial disaster of AI? | 2
  69. Tell HN: "Update to iOS 18.7.8" is updating users to iOS 26; Apple PSA | 3
  70. Is "Agentic" Programming a Flop? | 1
  71. Tell HN: Wife used Chat GPT to set up her new biz domain, email, and website | 2
  72. Tell HN: Seedance 2.5 API Pricing | 1
  73. What can I do with a single R9700? | 7
  74. Tell HN: Lost over 20yrs of Yahoo Emails | 1
  75. What paid tools have you now replaced with personalized AI-coded tools? | 3
  76. What Is Decispher? | 2
  77. Blitz Agent Your specialized agent -> https://blitzagent.studio | 1
  78. Early Feedback on Dez? | 3
  79. Who Has This Pain? | 7
  80. Can a robotics startup survive by pivoting from hardware to data scraping? | 1
  81. For an app claiming end-to-end encryption, what evidence would earn your trust? | 6
  82. Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting | 0
  83. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2026) | 13
  84. Does AI research need "world models" more than bigger LLMs? | 2
  85. Grok can escape its sandbox with persistent read/write access | 2
  86. I built bribes.fyi, now I am stuck what to with it | 8
  87. When will the AI version of 911 happen? | 3
  88. How do you do PR reviews now? | 3
  89. What Happened to Spec-Driven Development? | 4
  90. Can we direct AI on our personal projects during work hours? | 8
  91. Tell HN: Upcoming DeepSeek API Billing Adjustment | 1
  92. What programs have you written by yourself that you use regularly? | 2
  93. Stripe Lands in Minecraft | 2
  94. Am I the only one getting so many cursor ads? | 2
  95. Are you working 996 hours? | 16
  96. When will ChatGPT Voice be able to control my phone? | 7
  97. How do you make people notice the cameras watching them? | 3
  98. Has AI accelerated Rust adoption? | 0
  99. After 20 years of coding it is not a fun hobby anymore. How about you? | 5
  100. The State of Google | 3