I'd have swear before there were more and even a more button at the bottom

(OP is not asking about the frontpage, but rather about https://news.ycombinator.com/ask, which shows text posts, mostly questions that usually begin with "Ask HN".)

The answer is that not enough posts are getting upvoted on https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew (or https://news.ycombinator.com/newest) to clear the small threshold necessary to make it to /ask.

This has been happening for a while. Not sure what the solution is. Sometimes I go to /asknew myself and upvote the ones that seem good enough to make it to /ask, if not the frontpage, but that's a manual operation and I rarely have time.

I suppose we could fill in the empty slots with posts from /asknew but then not sure how we would pick them...

If you want to see the uncurated slushpile, check /asknew instead of /ask. It's documented in the Lists link at the bottom of the page.

It seems to be broken and showing non-Ask content. Bugs happen; email the site admins and they can fix it (footer Contact link).

maybe you installed a "Hacker news without AI" addon or script?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659647

I don't regularly check Ask HN so I'm uncertain that more should be listed, although I would expect so. But assuming you haven't, the correct place to contact is hn@ycombinator.com which can be found at the contact link at the bottom of the page.

I noticed this today as well, showing 15 but it seems short and it used to be paged.

Wow this is the first time I've seen a real visible bug on HN.

Seeing the usual 30

I see 15

I see 15.

Please subscribe for 15 more

You have reached the end of the internet. That is a paywall in front of you. What do you do?

same (well 15, but it's limited)

Looks like someone vibecoded and pushed without a review. Been observing too many bugs across X, Cursor etc