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) | 1153
6. Who is hiring? (July 2026) | 436
7. Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding? | 206
8. Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars | 1
9. Who is quitting? (July 2026) | 149
10. Who wants to be hired? (July 2026) | 565
11. Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board? | 114
12. What are your favorite blogs not about AI? | 39
13. Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news? | 55
14. Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now? | 87
15. Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B | 5
16. LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft | 54
17. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login | 18
18. Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech? | 84
19. Are systems ready for the first negative leap second? | 93
20. Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content? | 40
21. LG ThinQ Terms of Use | 30
22. AI coding is a nightmare. Am I the only one experiencing this? | 53
23. My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed] | 59
24. Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas? | 16
25. Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall? | 38
26. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1 | 35
27. Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number | 40
28. What livestream do you keep open in a tab? | 18
29. HN frontpage feels boring now? | 37
30. Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol? | 33
31. How do you use Vim in the era of AI? | 99
32. Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items? | 48
33. Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login | 33
34. Internet is no longer accessible? | 25
35. Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support | 22
36. Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now? | 47
37. BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman | 18
38. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself | 24
39. Happy Independence Day | 10
40. What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student? | 14
41. Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs? | 47
42. What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)? | 27
43. Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas? | 30
44. If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted? | 39
45. How do people keep track of organizational knowledge? | 24
46. New employeer not providing equipment | 41
47. Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon? | 96
48. Is the GitHub pancake menu now a pancake emoji? | 13
49. Tell HN: I managed to unsubscribe from Adobe CC without being charged | 4
50. Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere? | 40
51. What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it? | 33
52. For the cheap price of a permanent tatto, get access to job interview | 15
53. What Linux distro do you daily drive? | 50
54. Fable 5 dropped from subscriptions before the promised July 19 date | 12
55. Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun? | 78
56. Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5 | 18
57. Robotics development made dead simple (open source) | 7
58. Tell HN: TIL accessing old.reddit.com now requires accounts | 7
59. Anyone here with an "in" with eBay? | 9
60. I'm opening VSCode less and less every day | 23
61. Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com? | 16
62. Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key? | 4
63. Tell HN: don't trust Bigco AI agents with AI research IP | 7
64. Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far] | 22
65. How many failed startups have you launched? | 13
66. Semi lucrative careers after tech? | 9
67. I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue? | 26
68. Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs? | 50
69. Does average person understand that all disc media dies too? | 57
70. Does it still make sense to write code by hand? | 49
71. YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed | 11
72. X permanently banned my 15-year-old account for sharing my own open-source lib | 18
73. Tell HN: Fable 5 promotion extended through July 12, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT | 6
74. I feel like I've lost my identity due to AI | 9
75. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs | 7
76. Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate | 10
77. Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs? | 18
78. One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens | 7
79. What apps are you building? | 22
80. US Equivalent of Anabin? | 5
81. How do you guys keep up with AI news? | 15
82. HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc) | 0
83. America turns 250 today. What does it mean to you? | 9
84. Is Reddit trying to kill old Reddit? | 11
85. Seattle Just Had an Earthquake | 10
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. Fable 5 is insanely good | 6
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 | 3
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? | 52
95. I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks? | 19
96. How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects? | 11
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