Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel | 271
  2. Who is hiring? (June 2026) | 418
  3. Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) | 499
  4. What Is the State of App Development in 2026? | 70
  5. So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking? | 91
  6. Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware? | 31
  7. Tell HN: Meta's AI support feature allows Instagram accounts to be stolen | 11
  8. Life saving / first aid posters | 3
  9. I'm Done Using AI | 25
  10. How do you find deep technical content? | 17
  11. $100 to a Debian Developer who can get Fresh Editor into Trixie | 14
  12. Gin rummy strategies | 4
  13. Any advice on how to learn good software architecture practices? | 13
  14. High school student – is learning programming still worthwhile? | 35
  15. What is your opinion on index rule changes to accommodate Mega-Cap IPOs? | 10
  16. Recruiters, How do you vet resume in 2026? | 8
  17. Tell HN: In the old days, computers used to get constantly faster and cheaper | 20
  18. Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site? | 18
  19. We're temporarily restricting Show HNs because of an influx | 5
  20. Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS | 23
  21. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2026) | 23
  22. What are your worst war stories bringing agentic applications into prod | 7
  23. What's the hardest problem you've ever solved? | 6
  24. My client is replacing me with Claude for all DevOps/infra and most feature dev | 4
  25. The AI cost is going to create a new excuse for mass layoffs | 4
  26. Why Ask HN has only 14 questions now? | 3
  27. If I cancel Codex today whats the next best local inference agent? | 9
  28. What was the best decision you made in your career? | 12
  29. How is your org managing PR review load as AI multiplies code output? | 16
  30. I Replaced My AI Agent's Flat Fact Store with a Graph Database | 5
  31. A Brief History of LLMs | 6
  32. What Are You Thankful For? | 8
  33. Anyone else observing a Widespread Outage of Archive.* Sites? | 3
  34. How to voice disagreement over S&P500 inclusion rules change for SpaceX? | 2
  35. I made an free unlimited captcha alternative | 3
  36. Is it possible to send a message in Morse code by un-following someone on x.com? | 22
  37. Students, What Impact Is AI Having on Your Education? | 3
  38. Why most of us programmers are men? | 10
  39. Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store | 4
  40. Why Fossil DVCS is so awesome for the lone developer; A podcast | 0
  41. What's an advice that you no longer give? Why? | 2
  42. Why is AI use decried if it has been used without attribution? | 7
  43. How you pass legacy to others? | 13
  44. Time loop and partial blackhole? | 4
  45. Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk | 8
  46. What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked? | 4
  47. Donating AI credits to open source projects | 5
  48. Ask HK: How are you building AI apps today? | 10
  49. The AI tool discovery problem | 8
  50. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight | 4
  51. Non-profit school possibly hacked, locked out of Google Workspace. | 2
  52. What happened with Eureka Labs, Karpathy's startup? | 0
  53. FYI: Dreamina is shady; do not use | 0
  54. What are your digital end-of-life plans? | 4
  55. What happens when humans become as dumb as AI? | 4
  56. Architect MCP and TUI | 1
  57. Is the AI "Boom" Merely Another Excuse for Layoffs? | 1
  58. I hadn't coded in 30 years. Then I built a space game with Godot | 2
  59. Does your website show up when ChatGPT recommends tools in your field? | 0
  60. TCNs as Alternative to Transformers? | 3
  61. What could happen if human beings become obsolete? | 5
  62. Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides | 4
  63. Am I too pessimistic about Python's future? | 6
  64. Claude Code vs. Codex | 0
  65. Angular jasmine unit tests are harder to code/maintain than the actual feature | 0
  66. Corporate Disconnect Between "Tokenmaxxing" and Token Optimization | 7
  67. Hey, you, tech worker–how are you feeling? | 4
  68. Do you give AI agent the specs and have it start building unattended? | 1
  69. What are all the ways to punch through NAT? | 5
  70. What/how are you teaching your kids in the age of AI? | 10
  71. OpenAI's ChatGPT returns another user's response when I paste an image | 2
  72. Is anybody providing deterministic LLMs? | 8
  73. Good books/resources for learning SQL? | 3
  74. Why is it still so hard for LLMs to query NoSQL databases? | 1
  75. Is Everyone an Engineer Now? | 5
  76. Best Claude Code thinking word you've seen? | 5
  77. Heavy coding-agent users what's your context plumbing? Where it fails? | 1
  78. Are there companies that use agent-based modeling? | 1
  79. The HN shadowbanning situation is insane | 7
  80. Anyone missing the human aspect of pre AI? | 1
  81. AI Goal: Senior Software Engineer | 5
  82. Please fix the spam filter it's killing lots of legit comments | 2
  83. How does your company do product management/design/development now? | 0
  84. What's KugelAudio's (YC P26) Moat? | 1
  85. How would you benchmark your engineering team's AI adoption? | 3
  86. How much time do you spend cooking every day? | 5
  87. OpenAI new privacy policy to include info about ads in ChatGPT | 1
  88. Changing a Title Can Make an Epoch-Making Article Invisible | 2
  89. I am developer in building distributed systems,how to get into Anthropic? | 2
  90. Can you see my post? | 7
  91. Thoughts on the current state of tech meetups in the SF Bay Area? | 1
  92. Reduce Claude costs by changing Effort/Thinking parameters | 0
  93. Anthropic is conditioning our minds | 4
  94. How do people secure their Linux computer? | 5
  95. What email API providers to use for pet project? | 7
  96. What would justify writing a kernel in 2026? | 6
  97. Decentralized Medical Records | 10
  98. My Humble AI Market Prediction | 8
  99. Why is news.ycombinator still relevant and devs keep coming back to it? | 6
  100. What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI? | 6