Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion | 756
  2. Add flag for AI-generated articles | 460
  3. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work | 107
  4. Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party | 177
  5. What Are You Working On? (July 2026) | 1154
  6. Who is hiring? (August 2026) | 315
  7. What are you working on? (August 2026) | 787
  8. Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars | 1
  9. Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) | 533
  10. Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board? | 114
  11. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links | 21
  12. Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search | 58
  13. What are your favorite blogs not about AI? | 39
  14. Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now? | 87
  15. Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B | 5
  16. LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft | 54
  17. Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech? | 84
  18. LG ThinQ Terms of Use | 30
  19. My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed] | 59
  20. What livestream do you keep open in a tab? | 21
  21. Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number | 40
  22. Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items? | 61
  23. Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol? | 33
  24. Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login | 33
  25. Internet is no longer accessible? | 25
  26. Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support | 22
  27. Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now? | 48
  28. What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? | 93
  29. BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman | 19
  30. Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science? | 65
  31. What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student? | 14
  32. What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)? | 26
  33. Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas? | 30
  34. If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted? | 39
  35. How do people keep track of organizational knowledge? | 24
  36. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously | 24
  37. Did GitHub remove the stargazers list? | 5
  38. Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon? | 96
  39. Is the GitHub pancake menu now a pancake emoji? | 13
  40. Who is quitting? (August 2026) | 1
  41. Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere? | 40
  42. How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated? | 29
  43. For the cheap price of a permanent tatto, get access to job interview | 15
  44. What Linux distro do you daily drive? | 50
  45. Fable 5 dropped from subscriptions before the promised July 19 date | 12
  46. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply | 23
  47. Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there? | 6
  48. Anyone still do work on Intel Macs? | 28
  49. Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5 | 19
  50. Robotics development made dead simple (open source) | 7
  51. Tell HN: TIL accessing old.reddit.com now requires accounts | 7
  52. What are you working on? (August 2026) | 55
  53. Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting | 4
  54. Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com? | 17
  55. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt | 21
  56. Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key? | 4
  57. Who is firing? (August 2026) | 5
  58. YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed | 14
  59. Semi lucrative careers after tech? | 10
  60. Is Ask HN Shrinking? | 15
  61. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification | 1
  62. Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs? | 50
  63. Does it still make sense to write code by hand? | 49
  64. US and China race to be first to build Skynet. Either way we're F'ed | 11
  65. I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills" | 17
  66. X permanently banned my 15-year-old account for sharing my own open-source lib | 18
  67. Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress | 22
  68. What did you learn last month? (July 2026) | 16
  69. I feel like I've lost my identity due to AI | 9
  70. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs | 7
  71. Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate | 10
  72. Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs? | 18
  73. HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc) | 0
  74. Is Reddit trying to kill old Reddit? | 13
  75. What apps are you building? | 22
  76. How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents? | 9
  77. US Equivalent of Anabin? | 5
  78. How do you guys keep up with AI news? | 15
  79. The State of Google | 8
  80. Show your micro-SaaS / MRR updates (August 2026) | 9
  81. What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models? | 8
  82. Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer | 5
  83. Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app | 2
  84. Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked? | 11
  85. Tell HN: Leaving your country is your only real leverage | 17
  86. Claude Code or Codex? | 33
  87. Why are US tech workers so pro open borders? | 51
  88. Protecting your Sites/Services from Unwanted Traffic? | 10
  89. How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects? | 11
  90. Which Jabber clients support SCRAM+ and XEP-0474 | 1
  91. How do you figure out what you're passionate about? | 22
  92. What critical legacy system at work is everyone afraid to touch? | 2
  93. Anyone Else Burnt Out? | 7
  94. If Social network is created today, what do you want to see? | 47
  95. GitHub's 2FA is to become mandatory on September 2, 2026 | 8
  96. Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS | 4
  97. How do you use LLMs for private discussions? | 14
  98. Codex Is Down | 5
  99. Alternative Careers in the Age of AI | 11
  100. Have LLMs Plateaued? | 29