Ask HN ranking for the past month

1. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died | 222
2. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years | 245
3. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry | 270
4. If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies? | 755
5. How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand? | 766
6. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month | 349
7. What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? | 675
8. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming | 63
9. Who is hiring? (October 2026) | 391
10. Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain | 118
11. Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed? | 151
12. Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) | 699
13. CAD for wood working with LLM support? | 128
14. eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business; | 2
15. Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners | 60
16. Anthropic Console overcharged my card 100x due to internationalization input bug | 36
17. Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y | 34
18. Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping? | 155
19. Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November | 69
20. Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts? | 47
21. What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer? | 83
22. Why do people say "I built it" when we should say "Claude built it"? | 74
23. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me | 32
24. Where has creativity in software gone? | 27
25. Tell HN: Apple not letting removal of AI models on macOS 27 is outrageous | 27
26. Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference? | 18
27. Dark mode for HN please? (2026) | 14
28. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace | 16
29. Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore? | 17
30. Old.reddit.com Gone | 20
31. GCP Europe-West2 Outage | 12
32. Is anybody producing good code with coding agents? | 48
33. What's your favorite children's books? | 44
34. Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites | 3
35. 40 years of writing code. I didn't see the end coming | 23
36. Many SWEngs out there are considering re-training | 29
37. If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival | 50
38. Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks? | 22
39. Free and Open-Source Facebook Scraper – Lightweight, No Headless Browser | 3
40. OpenAI halved the allowance of the $200 plan to 10x | 9
41. Are tab completion models dead? | 17
42. What are you reading to your kids? | 32
43. How do you deal with AI output of your boss? | 18
44. Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month? | 6
45. What do you believe or not believe about AI? | 41
46. DietPi v10.8 has been released | 1
47. Are you hesitant to install vibe-coded apps? | 25
48. What games do you religiously play on your phone browser? | 41
49. Do you still read clean code and software architecture books? | 8
50. AMA – "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", milestone in CGI, is 25 years old | 13
51. Is AI just another get rich quick scheme? | 30
52. Email leaked while traveling abroad? | 18
53. Open-source, cross-harness memory for AI agents | 14
54. Are we giving away our civilization? | 6
55. Does anyone else just want to disconnect from everything? | 24
56. GitHub Is Down (Again) | 1
57. What to Build in the AI Era? | 26
58. Do you still own a printer? | 35
59. Tell HN: Thanks for All the Fish | 8
60. My Apple ID is locked for a week, Apple is a single point of failure | 6
61. What to do if you discover AI models trained using your copywrighted book? | 8
62. What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing? | 33
63. Am I the only dev who, with the advent if AI, want to work in a forest? | 24
64. You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human | 14
65. Revolut down – Global ATM withdrawals and bank transfers failing | 7
66. How will the AI endgame play out? | 28
67. How do swarms of AI agents work? | 8
68. How do you review code nowadays? | 10
69. Google Cloud networking is down in various regions | 14
70. How can you retrain in a field requiring expensive equipment? | 11
71. Did I just spent 6 months building a product that no one wants | 17
72. Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless | 10
73. Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action | 5
74. I Need Advice | 34
75. What are your career plans in the age of AI? | 25
76. Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software | 27
77. Thoughts on hiring junior engineers in 2026? | 27
78. Our digital privacy is being aggressively disbanded this week | 2
79. Do you want to keep your job? Stop feeding AI models | 9
80. Tell HN: The Amount of Irrelevant Content on Here Is Insane | 20
81. Hey, Y Combinator - What will happen to humans? | 19
82. What Is Your Personal Backup Methods | 12
83. Talk like Paul Dirac – fewer words is better | 20
84. Aaron Swartz's domain aaronsw.com has expired | 9
85. Is the Steam Machine worth $1049? | 14
86. How to get the most intelligence out of your agents? | 19
87. Took apart Claude Code, then turned it into a free course on harness engineering | 0
88. Is anyone still running Token Ring or FDDI networks? | 3
89. Can I tell my managers to skip the corporate bs and get to the point? | 22
90. Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code | 4
91. Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers | 6
92. Tell HN: I picked up knitting while waiting for my AI agent to complete | 3
93. Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model? | 19
94. More Powerful Than Ever, (can't find work) | 19
95. GitHub now uses a generic avatar instead of "Identicons" for new profiles | 3
96. A plea to help me help my father | 1
97. How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world? | 7
98. What is the actual percentage of people for and against AI? | 55
99. What have you built privately with AI that you'd like to share? | 26
100. What are you working on? (October 2026) | 30