Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Who is hiring? (August 2026) | 139
  2. Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) | 236
  3. Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search | 58
  4. My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed] | 59
  5. Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items? | 60
  6. Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support | 22
  7. Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now? | 48
  8. What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? | 89
  9. Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science? | 64
  10. Is the GitHub pancake menu now a pancake emoji? | 13
  11. For the cheap price of a permanent tatto, get access to job interview | 15
  12. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply | 23
  13. Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5 | 19
  14. Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com? | 17
  15. Anyone still do work on Intel Macs? | 28
  16. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt | 21
  17. Who is quitting? (August 2026) | 0
  18. What are you working on? (August 2026) | 42
  19. YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed | 14
  20. Semi lucrative careers after tech? | 9
  21. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification | 1
  22. Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress | 22
  23. Who is firing? (August 2026) | 5
  24. I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills" | 15
  25. What did you learn last month? (July 2026) | 16
  26. Is Reddit trying to kill old Reddit? | 13
  27. Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer | 5
  28. Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app | 2
  29. Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS | 3
  30. Ask/Tell HN: use the flag button instead of complaining about AI slop articles | 8
  31. What have you been curious about? | 20
  32. Claude multisession | 11
  33. Which web browser has no AI? | 13
  34. I lost any interest in technology. What do I do? | 21
  35. What's the Point of Your Startup? | 18
  36. How to get more coding productivity with LLMs | 2
  37. Have LLMs Plateaued? | 25
  38. Stripe's opt-out Radar price increase dressed up as a free trial | 1
  39. How are you using AI to learn? | 23
  40. Local, Open source AI meeting recorder that sees and hears everything | 3
  41. Telegram is suspected to be removed from the App Store | 4
  42. Tell HN: Airbnb updated "necessary" cookies aren't | 0
  43. Is everybody's Claude weekly quota reset time the same? | 6
  44. What's Your BHAG? | 12
  45. What are you using for LLM inference in production? | 4
  46. How did your boss's behavior change with the rise of AI? | 9
  47. ReAct vs. Planning Pattern | 1
  48. What if we learned languages like we acquired our first? | 9
  49. After 8 Years of Failed Apps, Should I Give Up? | 25
  50. The Mistake That Cost Me a Year | 2
  51. Do newer coding models end up training on the AI slop generated by older models? | 9
  52. Can Apple Ever Be Disrputed? | 27
  53. Navigating Source Code (especially on large projects) | 3
  54. Can't we think out of the box to kill the tumor? | 7
  55. How would you learn AI-assisted development from the ground up? | 9
  56. Should authors disclose if they are paid to write a blog post? | 5
  57. Tell HN: System76 has critical firmware issues unresolved for over 3 years | 3
  58. Do Something about Bots | 4
  59. What E-Reader to Buy? | 9
  60. Old.reddit.com is now requiring users to log in | 6
  61. I built an independent peptide testing lab that accepts mailed samples | 1
  62. SFR (French Internet provider) is blocking opencode.ai | 4
  63. What is the downside of coaching that I may not be seeing yet? | 1
  64. Tips for Landing a YC Internship? | 10
  65. How are you handling production risks from AI generated code? | 5
  66. Mass Loss in Black Hole Merger? How Does That Work? | 4
  67. Do older programmers/CS academics view AI safety as a form of arrogance? | 14
  68. Qwen 3.7 or 3.8 30B – 100B. QWhen? | 0
  69. Im 14 and I want to create AI for students | 6
  70. Is the fall of Situational Awareness the first domino? | 5
  71. Grant Writers, Worth It? | 2
  72. When a post of yours does well, do you know why? | 5
  73. GitHub shadowbanned an NPM package with 37M+ weekly downloads | 1
  74. Northstar Browser 1.0.5 | 0
  75. Best Blogging Platform? | 6
  76. What's your monthly personal AI budget? | 5
  77. Senior Dev Imposter Syndrome | 6
  78. Why so many [dead] replies? | 22
  79. I created Canva Alternative with 200+ Tools | 2
  80. How did you fund your startup without VC? | 2
  81. Protecting My Server and Knowing What It Does with Tailscale and Beszel | 2
  82. ChatGPT free tier just stopped working, is this just me? | 1
  83. Wyro – Draw a backend on a canvas, export TypeScript with no lock-in | 2
  84. What's Next for LLMs? | 5
  85. MiniMax H3: Open weights Omni-modal model | 0
  86. Do you think Opus 5 will improve? | 0
  87. What former "must-have" AI agent skills have you deprecated? | 3
  88. Google search filter by date seems broken | 2
  89. Do you ever think about the environmental impacts of the AI datacenters? | 4
  90. ThePirateBay vs. Anthropic | 4
  91. What will it take you to shift to a new social media platform? | 19
  92. How many AI agents do you actively use? | 17
  93. Tell HN: Rising Censorship in German Social Media | 5
  94. Developer looking for freelance or contract work | 3
  95. When did we go from agentic loops to graphs? | 2
  96. Who wants to start a profitable business with me in America? | 4
  97. The World Is to Focused on Quarterly Earnings | 2
  98. Is there a "mouse" for parallel work? | 5
  99. AGI has arrived. We just call it backpropagation | 5
  100. Sectors that are inherently resistant to AI-ification? | 7