Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion | 756
  2. Add flag for AI-generated articles | 460
  3. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work | 107
  4. Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party | 177
  5. What Are You Working On? (July 2026) | 1154
  6. Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding? | 206
  7. Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars | 1
  8. Who is quitting? (July 2026) | 149
  9. Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board? | 114
  10. What are your favorite blogs not about AI? | 39
  11. Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news? | 55
  12. Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now? | 87
  13. Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B | 5
  14. LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft | 54
  15. Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech? | 84
  16. Are systems ready for the first negative leap second? | 93
  17. Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content? | 40
  18. LG ThinQ Terms of Use | 30
  19. AI coding is a nightmare. Am I the only one experiencing this? | 53
  20. My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed] | 59
  21. Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas? | 16
  22. Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall? | 38
  23. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1 | 35
  24. Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number | 40
  25. What livestream do you keep open in a tab? | 18
  26. HN frontpage feels boring now? | 37
  27. Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol? | 33
  28. How do you use Vim in the era of AI? | 99
  29. Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items? | 55
  30. Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login | 33
  31. Internet is no longer accessible? | 25
  32. Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support | 22
  33. Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now? | 47
  34. BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman | 19
  35. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself | 24
  36. Happy Independence Day | 10
  37. What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student? | 14
  38. Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs? | 47
  39. What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)? | 27
  40. Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas? | 30
  41. If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted? | 39
  42. How do people keep track of organizational knowledge? | 24
  43. New employeer not providing equipment | 41
  44. Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon? | 96
  45. Is the GitHub pancake menu now a pancake emoji? | 13
  46. Tell HN: I managed to unsubscribe from Adobe CC without being charged | 4
  47. Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere? | 40
  48. What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it? | 33
  49. For the cheap price of a permanent tatto, get access to job interview | 15
  50. What Linux distro do you daily drive? | 50
  51. Fable 5 dropped from subscriptions before the promised July 19 date | 12
  52. Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun? | 78
  53. Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5 | 18
  54. Robotics development made dead simple (open source) | 7
  55. Tell HN: TIL accessing old.reddit.com now requires accounts | 7
  56. Anyone here with an "in" with eBay? | 9
  57. Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com? | 17
  58. Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key? | 4
  59. Tell HN: don't trust Bigco AI agents with AI research IP | 7
  60. Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far] | 22
  61. How many failed startups have you launched? | 13
  62. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply | 18
  63. YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed | 13
  64. Semi lucrative careers after tech? | 9
  65. I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue? | 26
  66. Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs? | 50
  67. Does average person understand that all disc media dies too? | 57
  68. Does it still make sense to write code by hand? | 49
  69. X permanently banned my 15-year-old account for sharing my own open-source lib | 18
  70. Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress | 17
  71. Tell HN: Fable 5 promotion extended through July 12, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT | 6
  72. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification | 1
  73. I feel like I've lost my identity due to AI | 9
  74. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs | 7
  75. Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate | 10
  76. Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs? | 18
  77. One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens | 7
  78. What apps are you building? | 22
  79. US Equivalent of Anabin? | 5
  80. How do you guys keep up with AI news? | 15
  81. HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc) | 0
  82. America turns 250 today. What does it mean to you? | 9
  83. Is Reddit trying to kill old Reddit? | 13
  84. Why about a third of the submissions become dead in mere minutes? | 43
  85. What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models? | 8
  86. What cool stuff have you all been using Fable 5 for? | 16
  87. Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app | 2
  88. Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked? | 11
  89. Tell HN: Leaving your country is your only real leverage | 17
  90. Claude Code or Codex? | 33
  91. Why are US tech workers so pro open borders? | 51
  92. I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks? | 19
  93. Protecting your Sites/Services from Unwanted Traffic? | 10
  94. How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects? | 11
  95. I coded a shoot 'em up alone at 18 after learning Lua in a single week | 9
  96. How do you figure out what you're passionate about? | 22
  97. GitHub's 2FA is to become mandatory on September 2, 2026 | 8
  98. How do you use LLMs for private discussions? | 14
  99. When will the stock market crash? | 20
  100. Alternative Careers in the Age of AI | 11