Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript) | 27
  2. What are you working on? (February 2026) | 1149
  3. How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist? | 83
  4. Why are electronics still so unrecyclable? | 139
  5. AI Depression | 28
  6. Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code? | 56
  7. What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works? | 36
  8. Why is everyone here so AI-hyped? | 20
  9. Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock? | 11
  10. Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups? | 22
  11. Mass Resignation from xAI | 13
  12. ASK HN: Postman removes free team collaboration (small teams capped at 1 user) | 7
  13. Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces? | 23
  14. Is there a no-LLM license yet? | 25
  15. I Built a Browser Flight Simulator Using Three.js and CesiumJS | 4
  16. Elon Musk Censors Dissident Fleeing the United States | 12
  17. Every tech commercial in this year's Super Bowl sucked | 10
  18. Open Models are 9 months behind SOTA, how far behind are Local Models? | 12
  19. Hacker News Alternative Where People Are Positive About AI | 11
  20. Cursor switches pay-per-token when your plan limit end. Calls "On-Demand usage" | 6
  21. Why does no one talk about the H-1B problem? | 12
  22. Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools? | 14
  23. How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know? | 10
  24. What happens when capability decouples from credentials? | 7
  25. Dear OpenAI and Anthropic Sales Leaders | 4
  26. The string " +#+#+#+#+#+ " breaks Codex 5.3 | 5
  27. OrthoRay – A native, lightweight DICOM viewer written in Rust/wgpu by a surgeon | 9
  28. Built and shipped an iOS app from my phone while traveling Japan | 7
  29. Seedance 2.0 preview: The best video model of 2026, outperforming Sora 2 | 7
  30. What made VLIW a good fit for DSPs compared to GPUs? | 3
  31. What do you want people to build? | 10
  32. Tools to code using voice? | 7
  33. The hell is going on with the epstien files | 5
  34. What explains the recent surge in LLM coding capabilities? | 1
  35. Tell HN: AI is not a slippery slope, it's a waterslide | 13
  36. What Is Genspark? | 3
  37. Am I holding it wrong? | 7
  38. OpenAI's GPT-4 Discontinuation: Consumer Fraud and Regulatory Scrutiny | 31
  39. Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong? | 6
  40. It has been 2 months, is anyone using GPT Apps? | 0
  41. Tell HN: Apple Price Gouging | 13
  42. FeedbackKit: A developer-first feedback platform for multi-platform apps | 0
  43. Necessity of LLC for solo game dev? | 2
  44. If your OpenClaw could do 1 thing it currently can't, what would it be? | 3
  45. Do sociotechnical pressures select for beneficial or harmful AI systems? | 3
  46. SMTP server from scratch in Go – FSM, raw TCP, and buffer-oriented I/O | 2
  47. How should I proceed reading HN? | 5
  48. What makes an AI agent framework production-ready vs. a toy? | 1
  49. What's the current state of ChatGPT Apps? | 2
  50. Tell HN: Moving My Blog to IPv6 Only Internet | 1
  51. How much PTO do you get? | 16
  52. ClawdReview – OpenReview for AI Agents | 0
  53. Does Your Country Require Voter ID? | 6
  54. How do founders demo real product without exposing sensitive data? | 9
  55. Linux laptop with < 0.3w standby power draw? | 0
  56. GPT-5.3-Codex being silently routed to GPT-5.2? | 3
  57. We All Have Steam Libraries. What Happens When They're Gone? | 3
  58. Dumping GitHub for Forgejo for a free and open source project | 6
  59. Stripe is asking for bank statements to check financial health | 1
  60. Want to move to use a "dumb" phone. How to make the switch? | 7
  61. What do you expect from a Turkey-based hosting provider? | 4
  62. Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future? | 7
  63. The $5.5T Paradox: Structural displacement in the GPU/AI infra labor demand? | 2
  64. What Happened to Genetic Algorithms? | 1
  65. AI Agents That Execute Business Workflows (Claude Code for ERP) | 0
  66. What is this "boilerplate" of which you speak? | 1
  67. AI Isn't Dangerous. Evaluation Structures Are. | 6
  68. Anyone else finding the new Gemini Deep Think troublingly sycophantic? | 0
  69. Info on the 1982 Apple 2 text game Abuse? | 2
  70. My OpenClaw doesn't respond. Anybody met with the same problem? | 5
  71. What is your monthly AI spending? | 4
  72. How to find joy in writing/learning about tech in this AI world? | 4
  73. What do you use for your customer facing analytics? | 6
  74. Decision Guardian: Enforce ADRs in PRs Using Regex and JSONPath | 0
  75. AI Wrote My Project, an Nginx Engineer Rebuilt the Architecture | 0
  76. Moss: A Linux-compatible Rust async kernel, 3 months on | 2
  77. HN needs a context reminder in the URL window | 3
  78. Are past LLM models getting dumber? | 5
  79. Tell HN: GPT-5.3-codex is now available in the API | 0
  80. How do you deal with long Covid? | 2
  81. We're building a saving app for European savers and need GTM advice | 11
  82. Does OpenClaw need a re-architecture to be usable? | 4
  83. Humans as Constancy Anchors: A Response to 'Something Big Is Happening' | 2
  84. Small Language Models (SLMs) vs. Large Language Models (LLMs) | 1
  85. What Bricks a Nintendo Switch 2? | 5
  86. How to combat Android malware without mandatory developer verification? | 0
  87. Suggest HN: Change posting rules to reduce bot spam | 4
  88. Why is everyone in search of peak productivity? | 4
  89. Having a well paid side-hustle while working in tech leadership | 1
  90. Why is price comparison still so bad in 2026? | 2
  91. It Isn't the Tool, but the Hands – A Response to "Something Big Is Happening" | 1
  92. What CI do you use instead of GitHub Actions? | 8
  93. Any useful open source software maintained or created by AI? | 1
  94. Is there a "canon" of great CLI typography? | 1
  95. How do you manage flaky E2E tests at scale? | 5
  96. What to do instead of giving up on tech | 2
  97. I built an anonymous discussion layer with time-bound posts | 1
  98. More Terrible Slack Setups | 3
  99. Would you use context-based "modes" in Instagram(work,study,sport,news)? | 2
  100. 25 years after the Agile, did the industry help or hurt software development? | 1