Ask HN ranking for the past day

  1. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 36
  2. Is it still worth learning a new programming language? | 15
  3. Why can't we discuss Israel on HN? | 15
  4. End of Year Book Recommendations | 5
  5. A tiny entropy experiment to push LLMs into unexpected paths | 2
  6. 2026: The Year the IDE Died (Steve Yegge and Gene Kim Talk AI Coding) | 9
  7. There's a Database of Startup Ideas Here | 0
  8. I built an AI web-scraper that bypasses captchas and login pages | 2
  9. Veteran-built iPhone steadiness tracker to help people avoid falls | 2
  10. DuckDuckGo Icons Easter Egg | 0
  11. How do small businesses handle phone calls? | 3
  12. How can I learn smartphone repair online? | 3
  13. Why are people using Claude or ChatGPT when Gemini is free? | 2
  14. What if AI was used to distribute work instead of doing the work? | 0
  15. When is the last time you wished the docs were in a single file? | 1
  16. Is there a "good" (non-privacy horror) aftermarket HUD for your car? | 2
  17. Anyone Else Noticed This? | 3
  18. New swe engineer at a scale-up, low quality of projects | 0
  19. Ask HNIs early-stage fundraising broken,or founders just pitching the wrong way? | 0
  20. Privacy-first budgeting tool – all data stays in localStorage, works offline | 0
  21. Can I get around an assumed shadowban from Stripe? | 0
  22. Tell HN: GitHub listened and removed the AI summary feature | 0
  23. GitHub UI Unresponsive | 0
  24. Looking for SIMPLE graphics Markdown language | 1
  25. Why do people trust ChatGPT with their money but not transparent algos? | 6
  26. Do you keep an emotion or mood journal? Why do you do it, and has it helped you? | 0
  27. What hard problems are still underexplored? | 0
  28. How to scale after first paying customer? | 1
  29. Meta/IG deactivated my trademarked handle | 0
  30. I built Createy AI A native macOS AI layer to finish browser context switching | 0
  31. Post-CVE-2025-55182 – should we be auditing for backdoors? | 0
  32. OkayWebHost– A simple, India-based managed hosting | 0
  33. Why is codex suddenly giving me this error? | 1
  34. What high-effort, high-reward skills have you developed in 2025? | 0
  35. 1…765432100 – Unix Time Sequence Holiday on December 11 | 0
  36. Are there Proton Drive alternatives with true client-only key handling? | 1
  37. Should we start switching payment providers dynamically | 0
  38. How to get your app noticed by those who matter | 0
  39. Google Calendar Extension – a browser-side enhancement for Calendar users | 1
  40. Is 13" MacBook good enough without an external monitor? | 3
  41. Why do people trust ChatGPT with their money but not transparent algos? | 2
  42. Empromptu ($2M pre-seed): AI application builder with Self-Managing Context | 0
  43. Relational AI vs. Constitutional AI: Are we focusing on the right question? | 0
  44. Benchmark: A100 vs. H100 NVMe Random Read throughput during multi-GPU loading | 0
  45. Better Markdown workflow for Ghost? Building a lightweight web editor | 0
  46. What UI do you use on top of data engineering tools to look at data? | 3
  47. I built an AI that reads your Git history and writes status reports | 1
  48. Does your company spend time on system and API design? | 0
  49. Tell HN: There are now FOSS/H alternatives to major BigTech products | 6
  50. What're the most annoying repo setup stories you have? | 0
  51. "My self-awareness of my limitations is limited." | 0
  52. How are web browsers monetarily supported? | 4
  53. Are we evaluating AI agents all wrong? | 0
  54. Did Andrew Lee Kill IRC? | 1
  55. Outstanding packets calculation in Go-Back-N ARQ when ACK lost? | 0
  56. I built a unified Git activity engine to clean the mess between GitHub,Bitbucket | 1
  57. Is there a design term for deliberately making a UI more frustrating? | 4
  58. Is AI a Bubble? Why We're Betting on the Installation Phase | 0
  59. YouTube Only Showing Ads? | 5
  60. StillMe – an open-source "transparent RAG" framework | 0
  61. Is a JVM/CDP based browser agent stack fundamentally a bad idea? | 2
  62. Resources for Learning Springboot | 0
  63. Claude Code users, are you experiencing reduced usage limits today? | 0