Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion | 754
  2. Add flag for AI-generated articles | 458
  3. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work | 107
  4. What Are You Working On? (July 2026) | 1138
  5. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings | 34
  6. Who is hiring? (July 2026) | 437
  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. Where is the programming profession going? | 183
  11. Who wants to be hired? (July 2026) | 567
  12. We need tech news sources which exclude AI | 81
  13. Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board? | 114
  14. Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs | 65
  15. Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few | 79
  16. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted | 46
  17. Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news? | 54
  18. What are your favorite blogs not about AI? | 38
  19. Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now? | 87
  20. Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B | 5
  21. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login | 18
  22. LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft | 54
  23. What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ? | 75
  24. Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do | 94
  25. Are systems ready for the first negative leap second? | 93
  26. Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech? | 83
  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. LG ThinQ Terms of Use | 30
  30. AI coding is a nightmare. Am I the only one experiencing this? | 53
  31. Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas? | 16
  32. Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall? | 38
  33. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1 | 35
  34. Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list? | 66
  35. Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number | 40
  36. HN frontpage feels boring now? | 37
  37. Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol? | 33
  38. How do you use Vim in the era of AI? | 99
  39. How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era? | 60
  40. Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login | 33
  41. Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis? | 33
  42. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself | 24
  43. MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM | 71
  44. Happy Independence Day | 10
  45. What is everyone in SF talking about? | 49
  46. Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs? | 47
  47. New employeer not providing equipment | 41
  48. Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon? | 96
  49. Tell HN: I managed to unsubscribe from Adobe CC without being charged | 4
  50. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for? | 12
  51. Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad | 30
  52. What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it? | 33
  53. Fable 5 dropped from subscriptions before the promised July 19 date | 12
  54. Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster | 6
  55. Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun? | 78
  56. Anyone here with an "in" with eBay? | 9
  57. I'm opening VSCode less and less every day | 23
  58. Secure wrapper for coding agents? | 19
  59. What home printer do you use/recommend? | 24
  60. Norway bans AI in elementary schools | 22
  61. Tell HN: don't trust Bigco AI agents with AI research IP | 7
  62. Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far] | 22
  63. Am I missing something with AI | 23
  64. New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser? | 23
  65. How many failed startups have you launched? | 13
  66. I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue? | 26
  67. Mullvad Alternatives? | 14
  68. Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs? | 50
  69. Tell HN: TIL accessing old.reddit.com now requires accounts | 5
  70. Does average person understand that all disc media dies too? | 57
  71. Does it still make sense to write code by hand? | 49
  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 VSCode is falling apart | 19
  75. What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year? | 13
  76. Books about Genetic Algorithms | 9
  77. I feel like I've lost my identity due to AI | 9
  78. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs | 7
  79. You have one year to make $1M. What's your plan? | 17
  80. Homeless, Former Software Developer, What Now? | 18
  81. How do people keep track of organizational knowledge? | 20
  82. Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what? | 14
  83. Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs? | 18
  84. One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens | 7
  85. Tell HN: Please stop posting political content | 19
  86. How do you guys keep up with AI news? | 15
  87. America turns 250 today. What does it mean to you? | 9
  88. Seattle Just Had an Earthquake | 10
  89. Why about a third of the submissions become dead in mere minutes? | 43
  90. Fable 5 is insanely good | 6
  91. What cool stuff have you all been using Fable 5 for? | 16
  92. Claude Code or Codex? | 28
  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. GitHub's 2FA is to become mandatory on September 2, 2026 | 7
  98. What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years? | 23
  99. How do you use LLMs for private discussions? | 14
  100. When will the stock market crash? | 20