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. Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board? | 114
  8. What are your favorite blogs not about AI? | 39
  9. Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search | 56
  10. Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news? | 55
  11. Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now? | 87
  12. Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B | 5
  13. LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft | 54
  14. Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech? | 84
  15. Are systems ready for the first negative leap second? | 93
  16. LG ThinQ Terms of Use | 30
  17. My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed] | 59
  18. Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas? | 16
  19. Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall? | 38
  20. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1 | 35
  21. What livestream do you keep open in a tab? | 20
  22. Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number | 40
  23. HN frontpage feels boring now? | 37
  24. Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol? | 33
  25. Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items? | 56
  26. How do you use Vim in the era of AI? | 99
  27. Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login | 33
  28. Internet is no longer accessible? | 25
  29. Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support | 22
  30. Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now? | 48
  31. BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman | 19
  32. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself | 24
  33. Happy Independence Day | 10
  34. What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student? | 14
  35. Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs? | 47
  36. Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science? | 60
  37. What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)? | 27
  38. Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas? | 30
  39. If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted? | 39
  40. How do people keep track of organizational knowledge? | 24
  41. New employeer not providing equipment | 41
  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. Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun? | 78
  51. Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5 | 18
  52. Robotics development made dead simple (open source) | 7
  53. Tell HN: TIL accessing old.reddit.com now requires accounts | 7
  54. Anyone here with an "in" with eBay? | 9
  55. Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com? | 17
  56. Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key? | 4
  57. Tell HN: don't trust Bigco AI agents with AI research IP | 7
  58. Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far] | 22
  59. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply | 20
  60. How many failed startups have you launched? | 13
  61. YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed | 14
  62. Semi lucrative careers after tech? | 9
  63. I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue? | 26
  64. Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs? | 50
  65. Does average person understand that all disc media dies too? | 57
  66. Does it still make sense to write code by hand? | 49
  67. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification | 1
  68. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt | 10
  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 | 22
  71. Tell HN: Fable 5 promotion extended through July 12, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT | 6
  72. I feel like I've lost my identity due to AI | 9
  73. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs | 7
  74. Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate | 10
  75. Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs? | 18
  76. HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc) | 0
  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. America turns 250 today. What does it mean to you? | 9
  82. Is Reddit trying to kill old Reddit? | 13
  83. Why about a third of the submissions become dead in mere minutes? | 43
  84. What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models? | 8
  85. What cool stuff have you all been using Fable 5 for? | 16
  86. Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app | 2
  87. Anyone still do work on Intel Macs? | 12
  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. What did you learn last month? (July 2026) | 11
  96. I coded a shoot 'em up alone at 18 after learning Lua in a single week | 9
  97. How do you figure out what you're passionate about? | 22
  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