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) | 1155
  5. Who is hiring? (August 2026) | 347
  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) | 565
  9. Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board? | 114
  10. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links | 24
  11. Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search | 58
  12. What are your favorite blogs not about AI? | 39
  13. Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now? | 87
  14. Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B | 5
  15. LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft | 54
  16. Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech? | 84
  17. LG ThinQ Terms of Use | 30
  18. My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed] | 59
  19. What livestream do you keep open in a tab? | 21
  20. Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items? | 61
  21. Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login | 33
  22. Internet is no longer accessible? | 25
  23. Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support | 22
  24. Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now? | 48
  25. What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? | 94
  26. BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman | 19
  27. Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science? | 65
  28. What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student? | 14
  29. What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)? | 26
  30. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously | 25
  31. Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas? | 30
  32. If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted? | 39
  33. How do people keep track of organizational knowledge? | 24
  34. Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login | 16
  35. Did GitHub remove the stargazers list? | 5
  36. SETI@Home was the coolest thing | 7
  37. Is the GitHub pancake menu now a pancake emoji? | 13
  38. Who is quitting? (August 2026) | 1
  39. Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere? | 40
  40. How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated? | 29
  41. Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting | 5
  42. For the cheap price of a permanent tatto, get access to job interview | 15
  43. What Linux distro do you daily drive? | 50
  44. Fable 5 dropped from subscriptions before the promised July 19 date | 12
  45. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply | 23
  46. Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there? | 6
  47. Anyone still do work on Intel Macs? | 28
  48. Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5 | 19
  49. Robotics development made dead simple (open source) | 7
  50. Tell HN: TIL accessing old.reddit.com now requires accounts | 7
  51. What are you working on? (August 2026) | 55
  52. Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com? | 17
  53. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt | 21
  54. Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key? | 4
  55. Is Ask HN Shrinking? | 16
  56. Who is firing? (August 2026) | 5
  57. YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed | 14
  58. Semi lucrative careers after tech? | 10
  59. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification | 1
  60. Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs? | 50
  61. Does it still make sense to write code by hand? | 49
  62. How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents? | 12
  63. US and China race to be first to build Skynet. Either way we're F'ed | 11
  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. Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs? | 18
  72. HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc) | 0
  73. Is Reddit trying to kill old Reddit? | 13
  74. What apps are you building? | 22
  75. US Equivalent of Anabin? | 5
  76. How do you guys keep up with AI news? | 15
  77. Show your micro-SaaS / MRR updates (August 2026) | 9
  78. What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models? | 8
  79. Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland? | 2
  80. Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer | 5
  81. Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app | 2
  82. Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked? | 11
  83. Tell HN: Leaving your country is your only real leverage | 17
  84. Claude Code or Codex? | 33
  85. Why are US tech workers so pro open borders? | 51
  86. Protecting your Sites/Services from Unwanted Traffic? | 10
  87. How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects? | 11
  88. Which Jabber clients support SCRAM+ and XEP-0474 | 1
  89. How do you figure out what you're passionate about? | 22
  90. Anyone Else Burnt Out? | 7
  91. If Social network is created today, what do you want to see? | 48
  92. GitHub's 2FA is to become mandatory on September 2, 2026 | 8
  93. Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS | 4
  94. Codex Is Down | 5
  95. Alternative Careers in the Age of AI | 11
  96. Have LLMs Plateaued? | 29
  97. What Project are you the most proud of? | 22
  98. How's Everyone Feeling Today? | 10
  99. What websites do you visit every day? | 9
  100. I built it and nobody came. What got you your first users? | 29