Ask HN ranking for the past month

1. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion | 745
2. Add flag for AI-generated articles | 456
3. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work | 100
4. Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day | 57
5. What Are You Working On? (July 2026) | 1117
6. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings | 34
7. Who is hiring? (July 2026) | 438
8. Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding? | 206
9. Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars | 1
10. Who is quitting? (July 2026) | 148
11. Where is the programming profession going? | 183
12. Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage? | 248
13. Who wants to be hired? (July 2026) | 566
14. We need tech news sources which exclude AI | 81
15. Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board? | 111
16. Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs | 65
17. Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few | 79
18. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted | 46
19. Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news? | 54
20. Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now? | 86
21. Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B | 3
22. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login | 18
23. LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft | 53
24. What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ? | 75
25. Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do | 94
26. Are systems ready for the first negative leap second? | 93
27. Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content? | 40
28. Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense? | 82
29. AI coding is a nightmare. Am I the only one experiencing this? | 53
30. Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects? | 64
31. Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas? | 16
32. LG ThinQ Terms of Use | 27
33. Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall? | 38
34. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1 | 35
35. Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list? | 66
36. Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number | 40
37. Do you have an unusual income source | 41
38. HN frontpage feels boring now? | 37
39. Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol? | 33
40. How do you use Vim in the era of AI? | 99
41. Are people optimistic about the future? | 92
42. How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era? | 60
43. Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis? | 33
44. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself | 24
45. MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM | 71
46. Happy Independence Day | 10
47. What is everyone in SF talking about? | 49
48. Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs? | 47
49. New employeer not providing equipment | 41
50. Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon? | 94
51. Tell HN: I managed to unsubscribe from Adobe CC without being charged | 4
52. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for? | 12
53. Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad | 30
54. What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it? | 33
55. Fable 5 dropped from subscriptions before the promised July 19 date | 12
56. Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster | 6
57. Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun? | 78
58. Anyone here with an "in" with eBay? | 9
59. I'm opening VSCode less and less every day | 23
60. Secure wrapper for coding agents? | 19
61. What home printer do you use/recommend? | 24
62. Norway bans AI in elementary schools | 22
63. Tell HN: don't trust Bigco AI agents with AI research IP | 7
64. Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far] | 22
65. Am I missing something with AI | 23
66. New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser? | 23
67. How many failed startups have you launched? | 13
68. I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue? | 26
69. Mullvad Alternatives? | 14
70. Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs? | 50
71. Does average person understand that all disc media dies too? | 57
72. Does it still make sense to write code by hand? | 48
73. What is the coolest tech progress outside AI? | 9
74. X permanently banned my 15-year-old account for sharing my own open-source lib | 18
75. Tell HN: Fable 5 promotion extended through July 12, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT | 6
76. I feel like VSCode is falling apart | 19
77. What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year? | 13
78. Books about Genetic Algorithms | 9
79. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs | 7
80. You have one year to make $1M. What's your plan? | 17
81. Homeless, Former Software Developer, What Now? | 18
82. Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what? | 14
83. One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens | 7
84. Tell HN: Please stop posting political content | 19
85. How do you guys keep up with AI news? | 14
86. Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs? | 18
87. America turns 250 today. What does it mean to you? | 9
88. Seattle Just Had an Earthquake | 10
89. I feel like I've lost my identity due to AI | 9
90. Why about a third of the submissions become dead in mere minutes? | 43
91. Fable 5 is insanely good | 6
92. What cool stuff have you all been using Fable 5 for? | 16
93. I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks? | 19
94. I coded a shoot 'em up alone at 18 after learning Lua in a single week | 9
95. Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner | 45
96. Anyone Else Burnt Out? | 7
97. What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years? | 23
98. How do you use LLMs for private discussions? | 14
99. What do you care about? What is your joy and purpose? | 22
100. When will the stock market crash? | 20