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. Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars | 1
  7. Who is hiring? (August 2026) | 139
  8. Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board? | 114
  9. Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) | 236
  10. Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search | 58
  11. What are your favorite blogs not about AI? | 39
  12. Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news? | 55
  13. Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now? | 87
  14. Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B | 5
  15. LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft | 54
  16. Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech? | 84
  17. Are systems ready for the first negative leap second? | 93
  18. LG ThinQ Terms of Use | 30
  19. My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed] | 59
  20. What livestream do you keep open in a tab? | 21
  21. Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall? | 38
  22. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1 | 35
  23. Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number | 40
  24. HN frontpage feels boring now? | 37
  25. Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items? | 60
  26. Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol? | 33
  27. How do you use Vim in the era of AI? | 99
  28. Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login | 33
  29. Internet is no longer accessible? | 25
  30. Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support | 22
  31. Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now? | 48
  32. BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman | 19
  33. What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? | 89
  34. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself | 24
  35. What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student? | 14
  36. Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs? | 47
  37. Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science? | 64
  38. What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)? | 27
  39. Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas? | 30
  40. If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted? | 39
  41. How do people keep track of organizational knowledge? | 24
  42. Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon? | 96
  43. Is the GitHub pancake menu now a pancake emoji? | 13
  44. Tell HN: I managed to unsubscribe from Adobe CC without being charged | 4
  45. Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere? | 40
  46. What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it? | 33
  47. For the cheap price of a permanent tatto, get access to job interview | 15
  48. What Linux distro do you daily drive? | 50
  49. Fable 5 dropped from subscriptions before the promised July 19 date | 12
  50. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply | 23
  51. Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun? | 78
  52. Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5 | 19
  53. Robotics development made dead simple (open source) | 7
  54. Tell HN: TIL accessing old.reddit.com now requires accounts | 7
  55. Anyone here with an "in" with eBay? | 9
  56. Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com? | 17
  57. Anyone still do work on Intel Macs? | 28
  58. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt | 21
  59. Who is quitting? (August 2026) | 0
  60. Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key? | 4
  61. Tell HN: don't trust Bigco AI agents with AI research IP | 7
  62. Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far] | 22
  63. What are you working on? (August 2026) | 42
  64. YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed | 14
  65. Semi lucrative careers after tech? | 9
  66. I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue? | 26
  67. Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs? | 50
  68. Does it still make sense to write code by hand? | 49
  69. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification | 1
  70. X permanently banned my 15-year-old account for sharing my own open-source lib | 18
  71. Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress | 22
  72. Who is firing? (August 2026) | 5
  73. Tell HN: Fable 5 promotion extended through July 12, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT | 6
  74. I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills" | 15
  75. What did you learn last month? (July 2026) | 16
  76. I feel like I've lost my identity due to AI | 9
  77. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs | 7
  78. Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate | 10
  79. Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs? | 18
  80. HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc) | 0
  81. One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens | 7
  82. What apps are you building? | 22
  83. US Equivalent of Anabin? | 5
  84. How do you guys keep up with AI news? | 15
  85. Is Reddit trying to kill old Reddit? | 13
  86. Why about a third of the submissions become dead in mere minutes? | 43
  87. What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models? | 8
  88. Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer | 5
  89. What cool stuff have you all been using Fable 5 for? | 16
  90. Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app | 2
  91. Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked? | 11
  92. Tell HN: Leaving your country is your only real leverage | 17
  93. Claude Code or Codex? | 33
  94. Why are US tech workers so pro open borders? | 51
  95. I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks? | 19
  96. Protecting your Sites/Services from Unwanted Traffic? | 10
  97. How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects? | 11
  98. How do you figure out what you're passionate about? | 22
  99. How do you use LLMs for private discussions? | 14
  100. Alternative Careers in the Age of AI | 11