Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years | 245
  2. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry | 270
  3. Which TV do you recommend for privacy? | 879
  4. If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies? | 756
  5. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts) | 168
  6. How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand? | 767
  7. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month | 349
  8. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats | 155
  9. What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? | 675
  10. Tell HN: Scribd Breached | 123
  11. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming | 63
  12. What's your current AI agentic setup? | 255
  13. Who is hiring? (November 2026) | 257
  14. Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club? | 23
  15. Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain | 118
  16. Gitbook Breached | 39
  17. Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed? | 151
  18. Are you tired too in this AI era? | 142
  19. CAD for wood working with LLM support? | 128
  20. eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business; | 2
  21. Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission | 3
  22. Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y | 35
  23. Anthropic Console overcharged my card 100x due to internationalization input bug | 36
  24. Tell HN: Please Vote | 36
  25. Getting hit with "Prove you are a human" at every other website | 48
  26. WorkOS reports security breach | 11
  27. What cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10 year olds? | 64
  28. Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping? | 155
  29. Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November | 72
  30. What hardware are you using to run local LLMs? | 46
  31. Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) | 453
  32. What your experience with the monthly "who wants to be hired" thread? | 41
  33. What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads? | 28
  34. Anthropic's Mythos-class model allegedly leaked on Hugging Face | 47
  35. Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts? | 47
  36. What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer? | 83
  37. Why do people say "I built it" when we should say "Claude built it"? | 74
  38. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me | 32
  39. Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month? | 30
  40. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not | 3
  41. Where has creativity in software gone? | 27
  42. Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks? | 32
  43. Tell HN: Apple not letting removal of AI models on macOS 27 is outrageous | 27
  44. In LLM era, can software startup survive? | 47
  45. Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites | 5
  46. Old.reddit.com Gone | 26
  47. Dark mode for HN please? (2026) | 14
  48. Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore? | 17
  49. GCP Europe-West2 Outage | 12
  50. Tell HN: GitHub Is Down | 16
  51. What's your favorite children's books? | 44
  52. Does anyone enjoy work anymore? | 26
  53. "Wrong" Email | 5
  54. Many SWEngs out there are considering re-training | 29
  55. If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival | 50
  56. Which hobby do you think is most diverting and pleasurable? | 39
  57. What are you working on? (November 2026) | 73
  58. Free and Open-Source Facebook Scraper – Lightweight, No Headless Browser | 3
  59. Canva lays off 22% of its workforce; 1,270 people | 1
  60. Are tab completion models dead? | 17
  61. How do you deal with AI output of your boss? | 18
  62. Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification | 4
  63. Do you still read clean code and software architecture books? | 11
  64. Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider? | 12
  65. US election results are being suppressed on HN | 20
  66. What do you believe or not believe about AI? | 42
  67. Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create an Anthropic account | 10
  68. DietPi v10.8 has been released | 1
  69. Are you hesitant to install vibe-coded apps? | 25
  70. What games do you religiously play on your phone browser? | 41
  71. AMA – "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", milestone in CGI, is 25 years old | 13
  72. Is AI just another get rich quick scheme? | 30
  73. Open-source, cross-harness memory for AI agents | 14
  74. Are we giving away our civilization? | 6
  75. Does anyone else just want to disconnect from everything? | 24
  76. GitHub Is Down (Again) | 1
  77. What to Build in the AI Era? | 26
  78. I Need Advice | 40
  79. Do you still own a printer? | 35
  80. My Apple ID is locked for a week, Apple is a single point of failure | 6
  81. What to do if you discover AI models trained using your copywrighted book? | 8
  82. Pepperwind, a fictional company dataset with 223 tables and 79M rows | 0
  83. What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing? | 33
  84. Am I the only dev who, with the advent if AI, want to work in a forest? | 24
  85. You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human | 14
  86. Revolut down – Global ATM withdrawals and bank transfers failing | 7
  87. How do swarms of AI agents work? | 8
  88. How do you review code nowadays? | 10
  89. Google Cloud networking is down in various regions | 14
  90. How can you retrain in a field requiring expensive equipment? | 11
  91. Did I just spent 6 months building a product that no one wants | 17
  92. Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless | 10
  93. Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action | 5
  94. What are your career plans in the age of AI? | 25
  95. Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software | 27
  96. Thoughts on hiring junior engineers in 2026? | 27
  97. Tell HN: The Amount of Irrelevant Content on Here Is Insane | 21
  98. Hey, Y Combinator - What will happen to humans? | 19
  99. Talk like Paul Dirac – fewer words is better | 20
  100. How to get the most intelligence out of your agents? | 19