Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits | 117
  2. Not treated respectfully by colleague – advice? | 121
  3. Is AWS down again? | 35
  4. Google Demanded My Drivers Lic Before Letting Me Read an Article | 31
  5. AI assistance is only making coders dumb, lazy and prone to replacement | 14
  6. Any good books for a layman on history of quantum computing? | 6
  7. What is a passkey and why is everybody asking for one lately? | 6
  8. Turned 25, Give Me Your Best Advice for the Next 25 Years? | 68
  9. Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs | 19
  10. Am I the only one not using AI? | 28
  11. Advice for creating a USB device linking 2 computers | 44
  12. Anyone else use FreePascal as their low level language? | 11
  13. M5 Macs Support Memory Integrity Enforcement | 0
  14. AI has changed my job for the worse | 14
  15. Where should an experienced developer start learning AI development? | 9
  16. What do you use for focus without coffee jitters? | 22
  17. What do you guys do to improve your focus? | 16
  18. Using jet engines for power generation at AI centers. | 5
  19. Losing Trust in the Internet | 8
  20. What's one small habit you started that surprisingly changed your life? | 11
  21. Best practices for research code? | 5
  22. My users say they'd cry if my app disappeared. None of them pay | 26
  23. What failed in the AWS outage that should have worked offline? | 3
  24. How do you convince people to use privacy respecting technologies | 15
  25. Can someone explain why Bitcoin isn't crashing due to quantum? | 53
  26. Why do LMMs overuse these patterns of speech that aren't overused in the wild? | 16
  27. Killer WiFi cards can block VPNs | 2
  28. My gf thinks videogames cannot be art. What to show her? | 45
  29. How should new programmers learn in the AI era? | 13
  30. Would the .NET community benefit from an open-source MassTransit fork? | 7
  31. Little ML book club – reading Ultra-scale playbook | 0
  32. How many 9s did AWS lose due to the last outage (us-east-1 incident)? | 1
  33. Would you like some help with your OSS project? | 7
  34. "The Age of Extraction"–an urgent, pessimistic take on the dominance of big tech | 1
  35. Publishing desktop apps via HTML5 canvas | 4
  36. Tech for Gardeners | 3
  37. Rigorous study on what jobs are declining due to AI now? | 6
  38. Tell HN: Copilot.microsoft.com redirect to m365.cloud.microsoft, chats gone | 1
  39. Bearblog custom domains no longer work and there is no support | 4
  40. What the Dumpster Teaches | 2
  41. What are you doing this week? | 14
  42. Do Java and .NET developers avoid learning new tech? | 7
  43. Bugbunny: Securing VibeCoded Apps | 0
  44. What's needed for a minimal production Docker deployment? | 5
  45. Tell HN: Supabase database restore from backup corrupting projects | 6
  46. Good LLM Observability Platforms? | 5
  47. MySQL Release Engineering PGP Key for Apt Repos Has Expired | 7
  48. I'm starting to feel tired of AI features that solve problems I don't have | 6
  49. Why so much snark? | 7
  50. How much money did you get from the Facebook privacy settlement? | 4
  51. Can you recreate/restore deleted text messages on an iPhone/Android? | 1
  52. Has anyone deployed your own MCP server connector to ChatGPT? | 3
  53. Anyone built an email or calendar assistant that syncs and indexes data? | 10
  54. What skills are worth obsessive focus for an unshakable future? | 11
  55. Mamdani is poised to become new mayor of New York. How do locals feel? | 8
  56. Yt-dlp no longer downloads videos from YouTube | 8
  57. Steps to take in advance in case your phone gets stolen | 5
  58. Are you / should we be preparing for "cyberattack" | 5
  59. Why have Microsoft products gone downhill? | 3
  60. Tell HN: Posteo.de email provider is down | 5
  61. The Fraud of Big AI | 1
  62. My WhatsApp account was banned for no reason | 3
  63. The Windows 7 Renaissance? StatCounter shows surge in usage | 5
  64. Preferred Next.js Alternatives? | 16
  65. Can a Capital-Flipping Tax System Pay Off the U.S. Debt | 27
  66. How can I join the Amish? | 2
  67. The Ad Server Meets Web3: Infrastructure for the Ownership Economy | 3
  68. I thought cheap products get more users. I was wrong | 0
  69. How to manage multiple AI agents in production? | 2
  70. Doing moral work as software engineer? | 2
  71. If the AI investment boom was serious, it would be focusing on electricity | 7
  72. The backlash to the AI and Tech alliance with Trump | 0
  73. Is the stock market in a bubble? What would make it pop? | 5
  74. Is there an IDE that can use the local open-source model? | 9
  75. Founding Delaware C-Corp as a Minor | 4
  76. End-to-end encrypted LLM chat (open- and closed-model) | 2
  77. Java Valhalla Early-Access build 2 (JEP 401) available | 0
  78. In 2025, what search engine offers the best results? | 9
  79. What processor architecture in microcontrollers do you use most often? | 1
  80. Which is the best 100% India based cloud hosting service provider? | 1
  81. How are developers adopting API-First design in 2025? | 1
  82. Dealing with "blocked" emails after DNS issue | 2
  83. Preferred Dev Workflow with LLMs? | 2
  84. ~25KLOC Indie project. Best practices for AI facilitated refactor? | 0
  85. Are there any people still holding on to HTML4? | 0
  86. Do programmers view memory as pages? | 3
  87. Do LLMs perform worse in languages other than English? | 1
  88. Should my business focus on AI training data instead? | 2
  89. Is OpenAI Firing Us? | 2
  90. Should YouTube have an "AI free" content label system? | 3
  91. URL Shortener as a HUB for marketing tools? | 4
  92. Why do my friends' users hate the product? Is it worth finding out? | 13
  93. Supplements for Memory That Work? | 6
  94. Control 2 air-gapped computers with 1 mouse and keyboard | 5
  95. Good Books on the History of Mankind? | 5
  96. Do you know anyone who needs a remote work monitoring system? | 6
  97. Would you trust AI to find real estate for you to buy or rent? | 9
  98. Anyone else experiencing lower quality in Claude Code since a few weeks? | 4
  99. What's the hardest thing you've done? | 5
  100. Hardware to use MacBook keyboard and trackpad to control Mac mini | 6