Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers | 202
  2. Alternatives to GitHub | 435
  3. GitHub employees what's going on? Why? | 261
  4. What are you working on? (August 2026) | 1203
  5. Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore? | 173
  6. GitHub down again? no PR access | 2
  7. Who is hiring? (August 2026) | 385
  8. In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development? | 74
  9. Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) | 590
  10. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links | 25
  11. Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code? | 125
  12. Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search | 58
  13. How do you keep up with HN these days? | 147
  14. Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week | 54
  15. old.reddit.com Now Requires a Login | 69
  16. My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed] | 59
  17. What livestream do you keep open in a tab? | 21
  18. I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works? | 89
  19. Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items? | 61
  20. Claude Seems Down | 49
  21. Internet is no longer accessible? | 25
  22. Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support | 22
  23. Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now? | 48
  24. What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? | 94
  25. BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman | 19
  26. Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science? | 65
  27. What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student? | 14
  28. Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login | 16
  29. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously | 25
  30. Did GitHub remove the stargazers list? | 5
  31. SETI@Home was the coolest thing | 7
  32. Is the GitHub pancake menu now a pancake emoji? | 13
  33. Who is quitting? (August 2026) | 1
  34. Old.reddit.com is now login only | 15
  35. Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere? | 40
  36. How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated? | 29
  37. Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting | 5
  38. For the cheap price of a permanent tatto, get access to job interview | 15
  39. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply | 23
  40. What are you working on? (August 2026) | 56
  41. Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there? | 6
  42. What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026? | 37
  43. Anyone still do work on Intel Macs? | 28
  44. Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5 | 19
  45. Robotics development made dead simple (open source) | 7
  46. Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com? | 17
  47. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt | 21
  48. Kimi Work attaches raw agent sessions to feedback reports | 8
  49. Is Ask HN Shrinking? | 16
  50. Alternative to Internet Archive | 18
  51. Who is firing? (August 2026) | 5
  52. Coding Agents killed my identity. How do you feel? | 32
  53. YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed | 14
  54. Semi lucrative careers after tech? | 10
  55. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification | 1
  56. What's the endgame of the AI comments buried in every post? | 12
  57. How's Everyone Feeling Today? | 22
  58. Is this the worst time to be human? | 49
  59. How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents? | 13
  60. US and China race to be first to build Skynet. Either way we're F'ed | 11
  61. How are you finding the job market in 2026? | 19
  62. I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills" | 18
  63. Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress | 22
  64. The State of Google | 13
  65. What did you learn last month? (July 2026) | 16
  66. What are independent software contractors doing now? | 9
  67. Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate | 10
  68. Has the hallucination problem in AI been solved? | 53
  69. HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc) | 0
  70. Where to learn software engineering fundamentals? | 7
  71. Is Reddit trying to kill old Reddit? | 13
  72. What's your daily driver keyboard? | 14
  73. What apps are you building? | 22
  74. How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models? | 41
  75. Google Cloud us-west1 down | 5
  76. Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland? | 2
  77. Are you good at AI, or just using it? | 11
  78. Do you feel comfortable admitting that you use AI? | 32
  79. If Social network is created today, what do you want to see? | 52
  80. Show your micro-SaaS / MRR updates (August 2026) | 9
  81. What's a Dirty Secret No One Wants to Admit in the Tech Industry? | 28
  82. Why does the US government search through people's phones at the border? | 12
  83. Who wants to fund DB research? | 0
  84. What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models? | 8
  85. Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer | 5
  86. Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app | 2
  87. Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab? | 15
  88. Tell HN: Leaving your country is your only real leverage | 17
  89. Protecting your Sites/Services from Unwanted Traffic? | 10
  90. How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects? | 11
  91. Which Jabber clients support SCRAM+ and XEP-0474 | 1
  92. How do you figure out what you're passionate about? | 22
  93. Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS | 4
  94. Codex Is Down | 5
  95. Have LLMs Plateaued? | 29
  96. What Project are you the most proud of? | 22
  97. What is the evidence for a stock market bubble in AI? | 7
  98. Ask/Tell HN: use the flag button instead of complaining about AI slop articles | 8
  99. What tools are you using for human code review of AI-assisted code? | 8
  100. Does a human still review your code? | 23