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? (August 2026) | 1108
6. What Are You Working On? (July 2026) | 1154
7. Who is hiring? (August 2026) | 321
8. Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars | 1
9. In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development? | 55
10. Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) | 548
11. Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board? | 114
12. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links | 23
13. Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search | 58
14. What are your favorite blogs not about AI? | 39
15. Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now? | 87
16. Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B | 5
17. LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft | 54
18. Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech? | 84
19. LG ThinQ Terms of Use | 30
20. My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed] | 59
21. What livestream do you keep open in a tab? | 21
22. Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items? | 61
23. Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login | 33
24. Internet is no longer accessible? | 25
25. Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support | 22
26. Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now? | 48
27. What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? | 93
28. BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman | 19
29. Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science? | 65
30. What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student? | 14
31. What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)? | 26
32. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously | 25
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. Did GitHub remove the stargazers list? | 5
37. Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon? | 96
38. Is the GitHub pancake menu now a pancake emoji? | 13
39. Who is quitting? (August 2026) | 1
40. Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere? | 40
41. How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated? | 29
42. Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting | 5
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. Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com? | 17
54. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt | 21
55. SETI@Home was the coolest thing | 7
56. Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key? | 4
57. Is Ask HN Shrinking? | 16
58. Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login | 8
59. Who is firing? (August 2026) | 5
60. YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed | 14
61. Semi lucrative careers after tech? | 10
62. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification | 1
63. Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs? | 50
64. Does it still make sense to write code by hand? | 49
65. US and China race to be first to build Skynet. Either way we're F'ed | 11
66. I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills" | 17
67. X permanently banned my 15-year-old account for sharing my own open-source lib | 18
68. Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress | 22
69. How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents? | 11
70. What did you learn last month? (July 2026) | 16
71. I feel like I've lost my identity due to AI | 9
72. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs | 7
73. Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate | 10
74. Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs? | 18
75. HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc) | 0
76. Is Reddit trying to kill old Reddit? | 13
77. What apps are you building? | 22
78. US Equivalent of Anabin? | 5
79. How do you guys keep up with AI news? | 15
80. The State of Google | 9
81. Show your micro-SaaS / MRR updates (August 2026) | 9
82. What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models? | 8
83. Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer | 5
84. Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app | 2
85. Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked? | 11
86. Tell HN: Leaving your country is your only real leverage | 17
87. Claude Code or Codex? | 33
88. Why are US tech workers so pro open borders? | 51
89. Protecting your Sites/Services from Unwanted Traffic? | 10
90. How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects? | 11
91. Which Jabber clients support SCRAM+ and XEP-0474 | 1
92. How do you figure out what you're passionate about? | 22
93. What critical legacy system at work is everyone afraid to touch? | 2
94. Anyone Else Burnt Out? | 7
95. If Social network is created today, what do you want to see? | 47
96. GitHub's 2FA is to become mandatory on September 2, 2026 | 8
97. Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS | 4
98. How do you use LLMs for private discussions? | 14
99. Codex Is Down | 5
100. Alternative Careers in the Age of AI | 11