Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. What are you working on? (February 2026) | 1095
  2. Tell HN: I'm a PM at a big system of record SaaS. We're cooked | 45
  3. Why are electronics still so unrecyclable? | 124
  4. Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM? | 35
  5. 10 months since the Llama-4 release: what happened to Meta AI? | 12
  6. Non AI-obsessed tech forums | 40
  7. Ideas for small ways to make the world a better place | 40
  8. Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups? | 20
  9. Why is everyone here so AI-hyped? | 14
  10. ASK HN: Postman removes free team collaboration (small teams capped at 1 user) | 7
  11. Is it just me or are most businesses insane? | 8
  12. Mass Resignation from xAI | 11
  13. Every tech commercial in this year's Super Bowl sucked | 10
  14. I Built a Browser Flight Simulator Using Three.js and CesiumJS | 4
  15. Elon Musk Censors Dissident Fleeing the United States | 12
  16. Open Models are 9 months behind SOTA, how far behind are Local Models? | 12
  17. Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam | 3
  18. Hacker News Alternative Where People Are Positive About AI | 11
  19. Cursor switches pay-per-token when your plan limit end. Calls "On-Demand usage" | 6
  20. Dear OpenAI and Anthropic Sales Leaders | 4
  21. XCancel but for Instagram? | 1
  22. The string " +#+#+#+#+#+ " breaks Codex 5.3 | 5
  23. AI Regex Scientist: A self-improving regex solver | 2
  24. What made VLIW a good fit for DSPs compared to GPUs? | 3
  25. OrthoRay – A native, lightweight DICOM viewer written in Rust/wgpu by a surgeon | 7
  26. Will crypto currencies survive past this market downturn? | 7
  27. LLMs are powerful, but enterprises are deterministic by nature | 14
  28. How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist? | 4
  29. Datacenter capex gravy train is over | 4
  30. What do you want people to build? | 7
  31. What Is Genspark? | 3
  32. Am I holding it wrong? | 7
  33. Convex is the best back end for AI coding | 0
  34. OpenAI's GPT-4 Discontinuation: Consumer Fraud and Regulatory Scrutiny | 31
  35. It has been 2 months, is anyone using GPT Apps? | 0
  36. The hell is going on with the epstien files | 5
  37. Tell HN: Apple Price Gouging | 13
  38. FeedbackKit: A developer-first feedback platform for multi-platform apps | 0
  39. Necessity of LLC for solo game dev? | 2
  40. Has your upper management been one-shotted by AI hype? | 2
  41. Tell HN: AI is not a slippery slope, it's a waterslide | 13
  42. How should I proceed reading HN? | 5
  43. How do you deal with SEO nowadays? | 8
  44. Does global decoupling from the USA signal comeback of the desktop app? | 3
  45. Linux laptop with < 0.3w standby power draw? | 0
  46. We All Have Steam Libraries. What Happens When They're Gone? | 3
  47. How does ChatGPT decide which websites to recommend? | 13
  48. Why LLM providers sell access instead of consulting services? | 15
  49. What do you expect from a Turkey-based hosting provider? | 4
  50. What are your odds that "we are not alone" is confirmed this year? | 15
  51. Seedance 2.0 preview: The best video model of 2026, outperforming Sora 2 | 5
  52. Is the Downfall of SaaS Started? | 1
  53. The $5.5T Paradox: Structural displacement in the GPU/AI infra labor demand? | 2
  54. Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools? | 4
  55. Why doesn't Netflix add a “Theater Mode” that recreates the worst parts? | 2
  56. AI Agents That Execute Business Workflows (Claude Code for ERP) | 0
  57. What is this "boilerplate" of which you speak? | 1
  58. AI Isn't Dangerous. Evaluation Structures Are. | 5
  59. What is your monthly AI spending? | 4
  60. How to find joy in writing/learning about tech in this AI world? | 4
  61. I built an AI agent that automatically commented on HN. Here's what I learned | 4
  62. I2P is currently facing an ongoing attack on its network | 0
  63. Discuss – Do AI agents deserve all the hype they are getting? | 2
  64. Do you subscribe to any magazines/publications | 5
  65. How Did You Validate? | 6
  66. AI Wrote My Project, an Nginx Engineer Rebuilt the Architecture | 0
  67. Non-profit, volunteers run org needs CRM. Is Odoo Community a good sol.? | 5
  68. Those holding large amounts of software stock, how much have you lost? | 1
  69. Are past LLM models getting dumber? | 4
  70. How do you deal with long Covid? | 2
  71. Does OpenClaw need a re-architecture to be usable? | 0
  72. How do you handle Canadian income tax brackets in software? | 0
  73. Test management tools for automation heavy teams | 2
  74. Tell me about an OpenClaw skill | 0
  75. Having a well paid side-hustle while working in tech leadership | 1
  76. Why is price comparison still so bad in 2026? | 2
  77. Is the CoCo 3 the best 8 bit computer ever made? | 4
  78. How defensible is Gmail's position today? | 2
  79. 900x downgrade of Perplexity Pro – anyone else hit? | 6
  80. Anyone Seeing YT ads related to chats on ChatGPT? | 6
  81. Any good open source projects written by AI agents? | 0
  82. A Deep Dive into Nova – A Web Framework for Erlang on Beam | 0
  83. The API Is a Dead End; Machines Need a Labor Economy | 0
  84. The Coming Class War | 6
  85. What CI do you use instead of GitHub Actions? | 6
  86. What do you use for your customer facing analytics? | 4
  87. Is it AGI for software engineering? | 5
  88. We moved all of our collaboration to mailing lists | 1
  89. Is there a "canon" of great CLI typography? | 1
  90. How do you manage flaky E2E tests at scale? | 2
  91. What to do instead of giving up on tech | 2
  92. Best option for hosted agent in 2026? | 2
  93. What is the most complicated Algorithm you came up with yourself? | 9
  94. I built an anonymous discussion layer with time-bound posts | 1
  95. More Terrible Slack Setups | 2
  96. Opus 4.6 ignoring instructions, how to use 4.5 in Claude Code instead? | 4
  97. "The appearance of X's name in the files does not imply wrongdoing" | 6
  98. The Null Pointer Crisis: Running God-Mode Software on Legacy Hardware | 2
  99. Dev with 5 of experience switched to Rails, what should I be careful about? | 0
  100. Kimi.com Potential Cryptojacking | 0