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. Who is hiring? (August 2026) | 285
7. Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars | 1
8. Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) | 480
9. Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board? | 114
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. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links | 15
17. Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech? | 84
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. Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number | 40
22. HN frontpage feels boring now? | 37
23. Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items? | 60
24. Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol? | 33
25. How do you use Vim in the era of AI? | 99
26. Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login | 33
27. Internet is no longer accessible? | 25
28. Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support | 22
29. Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now? | 48
30. What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? | 93
31. BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman | 19
32. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself | 24
33. What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student? | 14
34. Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs? | 47
35. Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science? | 65
36. What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)? | 26
37. Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas? | 30
38. If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted? | 39
39. How do people keep track of organizational knowledge? | 24
40. Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon? | 96
41. Is the GitHub pancake menu now a pancake emoji? | 13
42. Who is quitting? (August 2026) | 1
43. Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere? | 40
44. How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated? | 29
45. What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it? | 33
46. For the cheap price of a permanent tatto, get access to job interview | 15
47. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously | 17
48. What Linux distro do you daily drive? | 50
49. Fable 5 dropped from subscriptions before the promised July 19 date | 12
50. Did GitHub remove the stargazers list? | 1
51. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply | 23
52. Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun? | 78
53. Anyone still do work on Intel Macs? | 28
54. Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5 | 19
55. Robotics development made dead simple (open source) | 7
56. Tell HN: TIL accessing old.reddit.com now requires accounts | 7
57. Anyone here with an "in" with eBay? | 9
58. Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com? | 17
59. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt | 21
60. Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there? | 5
61. Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key? | 4
62. What are you working on? (August 2026) | 47
63. Who is firing? (August 2026) | 5
64. YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed | 14
65. Semi lucrative careers after tech? | 10
66. I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue? | 26
67. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification | 1
68. Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs? | 50
69. Does it still make sense to write code by hand? | 49
70. I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills" | 17
71. X permanently banned my 15-year-old account for sharing my own open-source lib | 18
72. Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress | 22
73. US and China race to be first to build Skynet. Either way we're F'ed | 10
74. What did you learn last month? (July 2026) | 16
75. I feel like I've lost my identity due to AI | 9
76. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs | 7
77. Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate | 10
78. Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs? | 18
79. HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc) | 0
80. One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens | 7
81. Is Reddit trying to kill old Reddit? | 13
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. What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models? | 8
86. Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer | 5
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. How do you figure out what you're passionate about? | 22
96. Anyone Else Burnt Out? | 7
97. GitHub's 2FA is to become mandatory on September 2, 2026 | 8
98. How do you use LLMs for private discussions? | 14
99. Codex Is Down | 5
100. Alternative Careers in the Age of AI | 11