Ask HN ranking for the past month

1. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion | 756
2. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work | 107
3. Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party | 177
4. What are you working on? (August 2026) | 1180
5. Who is hiring? (August 2026) | 370
6. In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development? | 72
7. Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars | 1
8. Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) | 579
9. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links | 24
10. Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search | 58
11. What are your favorite blogs not about AI? | 39
12. Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now? | 87
13. Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B | 5
14. Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech? | 84
15. LG ThinQ Terms of Use | 30
16. My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed] | 59
17. What livestream do you keep open in a tab? | 21
18. Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items? | 61
19. Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login | 33
20. Internet is no longer accessible? | 25
21. Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support | 22
22. Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now? | 48
23. What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? | 94
24. BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman | 19
25. Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science? | 65
26. What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student? | 14
27. What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)? | 26
28. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously | 25
29. Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas? | 30
30. If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted? | 39
31. Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login | 16
32. How do people keep track of organizational knowledge? | 24
33. Did GitHub remove the stargazers list? | 5
34. SETI@Home was the coolest thing | 7
35. Is the GitHub pancake menu now a pancake emoji? | 13
36. Who is quitting? (August 2026) | 1
37. Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere? | 40
38. How do you keep up with HN these days? | 28
39. How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated? | 29
40. Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting | 5
41. For the cheap price of a permanent tatto, get access to job interview | 15
42. What Linux distro do you daily drive? | 50
43. Fable 5 dropped from subscriptions before the promised July 19 date | 12
44. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply | 23
45. Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there? | 6
46. Anyone still do work on Intel Macs? | 28
47. Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5 | 19
48. Robotics development made dead simple (open source) | 7
49. Tell HN: TIL accessing old.reddit.com now requires accounts | 7
50. What are you working on? (August 2026) | 56
51. Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com? | 17
52. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt | 21
53. Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key? | 4
54. Is Ask HN Shrinking? | 16
55. Who is firing? (August 2026) | 5
56. YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed | 14
57. Semi lucrative careers after tech? | 10
58. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification | 1
59. Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs? | 50
60. How's Everyone Feeling Today? | 22
61. How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents? | 12
62. US and China race to be first to build Skynet. Either way we're F'ed | 11
63. How are you finding the job market in 2026? | 19
64. I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills" | 18
65. X permanently banned my 15-year-old account for sharing my own open-source lib | 18
66. Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress | 22
67. What did you learn last month? (July 2026) | 16
68. I feel like I've lost my identity due to AI | 9
69. The State of Google | 13
70. Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate | 10
71. HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc) | 0
72. Is Reddit trying to kill old Reddit? | 13
73. What apps are you building? | 22
74. Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland? | 2
75. How do you guys keep up with AI news? | 15
76. Show your micro-SaaS / MRR updates (August 2026) | 9
77. How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models? | 35
78. What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models? | 8
79. Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer | 5
80. Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app | 2
81. Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked? | 11
82. Tell HN: Leaving your country is your only real leverage | 17
83. Claude Code or Codex? | 33
84. Why are US tech workers so pro open borders? | 51
85. Protecting your Sites/Services from Unwanted Traffic? | 10
86. How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects? | 11
87. Which Jabber clients support SCRAM+ and XEP-0474 | 1
88. How do you figure out what you're passionate about? | 22
89. If Social network is created today, what do you want to see? | 50
90. GitHub's 2FA is to become mandatory on September 2, 2026 | 8
91. Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS | 4
92. Codex Is Down | 5
93. Alternative Careers in the Age of AI | 11
94. Have LLMs Plateaued? | 29
95. Goodbye POSIX, Hello Tea Room: Inside MinervaOS Architecture | 7
96. What Project are you the most proud of? | 22
97. Ask/Tell HN: use the flag button instead of complaining about AI slop articles | 8
98. What websites do you visit every day? | 9
99. Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab? | 11
100. I built it and nobody came. What got you your first users? | 29