Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died | 222
  2. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years | 245
  3. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry | 270
  4. If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies? | 755
  5. How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand? | 767
  6. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month | 349
  7. What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? | 675
  8. Tell HN: Scribd Breached | 121
  9. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming | 63
  10. Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain | 118
  11. Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed? | 151
  12. Are you tired too in this AI era? | 141
  13. CAD for wood working with LLM support? | 128
  14. eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business; | 2
  15. Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners | 60
  16. Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y | 34
  17. Anthropic Console overcharged my card 100x due to internationalization input bug | 36
  18. Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping? | 155
  19. Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November | 71
  20. Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts? | 47
  21. What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer? | 83
  22. What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads? | 27
  23. Why do people say "I built it" when we should say "Claude built it"? | 74
  24. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me | 32
  25. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not | 3
  26. Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month? | 21
  27. Where has creativity in software gone? | 27
  28. Tell HN: Apple not letting removal of AI models on macOS 27 is outrageous | 27
  29. Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference? | 18
  30. Old.reddit.com Gone | 26
  31. Dark mode for HN please? (2026) | 14
  32. Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites | 4
  33. Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore? | 17
  34. Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks? | 31
  35. GCP Europe-West2 Outage | 12
  36. Is anybody producing good code with coding agents? | 48
  37. What's your favorite children's books? | 44
  38. "Wrong" Email | 5
  39. Many SWEngs out there are considering re-training | 29
  40. If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival | 50
  41. Free and Open-Source Facebook Scraper – Lightweight, No Headless Browser | 3
  42. Are tab completion models dead? | 17
  43. How do you deal with AI output of your boss? | 18
  44. Do you still read clean code and software architecture books? | 10
  45. What do you believe or not believe about AI? | 41
  46. DietPi v10.8 has been released | 1
  47. Are you hesitant to install vibe-coded apps? | 25
  48. What games do you religiously play on your phone browser? | 41
  49. Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider? | 10
  50. AMA – "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", milestone in CGI, is 25 years old | 13
  51. Is AI just another get rich quick scheme? | 30
  52. Open-source, cross-harness memory for AI agents | 14
  53. Are we giving away our civilization? | 6
  54. Does anyone else just want to disconnect from everything? | 24
  55. GitHub Is Down (Again) | 1
  56. What to Build in the AI Era? | 26
  57. I Need Advice | 40
  58. Do you still own a printer? | 35
  59. My Apple ID is locked for a week, Apple is a single point of failure | 6
  60. What to do if you discover AI models trained using your copywrighted book? | 8
  61. What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing? | 33
  62. Am I the only dev who, with the advent if AI, want to work in a forest? | 24
  63. You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human | 14
  64. Which hobby do you think is most diverting and pleasurable? | 24
  65. Revolut down – Global ATM withdrawals and bank transfers failing | 7
  66. How do swarms of AI agents work? | 8
  67. How do you review code nowadays? | 10
  68. Google Cloud networking is down in various regions | 14
  69. How can you retrain in a field requiring expensive equipment? | 11
  70. Did I just spent 6 months building a product that no one wants | 17
  71. Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless | 10
  72. Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action | 5
  73. What are your career plans in the age of AI? | 25
  74. Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software | 27
  75. Thoughts on hiring junior engineers in 2026? | 27
  76. Our digital privacy is being aggressively disbanded this week | 2
  77. Do you want to keep your job? Stop feeding AI models | 9
  78. Tell HN: The Amount of Irrelevant Content on Here Is Insane | 21
  79. Hey, Y Combinator - What will happen to humans? | 19
  80. What Is Your Personal Backup Methods | 12
  81. Talk like Paul Dirac – fewer words is better | 20
  82. Aaron Swartz's domain aaronsw.com has expired | 9
  83. Is the Steam Machine worth $1049? | 14
  84. How to get the most intelligence out of your agents? | 19
  85. Took apart Claude Code, then turned it into a free course on harness engineering | 0
  86. Is anyone still running Token Ring or FDDI networks? | 3
  87. Can I tell my managers to skip the corporate bs and get to the point? | 22
  88. Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code | 4
  89. Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers | 6
  90. Tell HN: I picked up knitting while waiting for my AI agent to complete | 3
  91. Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model? | 19
  92. More Powerful Than Ever, (can't find work) | 19
  93. GitHub now uses a generic avatar instead of "Identicons" for new profiles | 3
  94. A plea to help me help my father | 1
  95. Why big LLMs use "it's not A, it is B" pattern? Shared dataset supplier? | 9
  96. Are you using a custom harness? | 7
  97. How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world? | 7
  98. What is the actual percentage of people for and against AI? | 55
  99. HN should have a downvote justification section | 25
  100. What have you built privately with AI that you'd like to share? | 26