Ask HN ranking for the past month

Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? | 454
Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving | 198
Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen | 8
Hearing aid wearers, what's hot? | 210
Who is hiring? (December 2025) | 528
Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down | 164
Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest | 85
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA | 303
How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs? | 189
Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending | 107
Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) | 432
Good resources to learn financial systems engineering? | 28
Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago? | 207
GitHub Down | 2
How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act? | 89
How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode? | 111
Senior people, how did your career evolve? | 52
What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments? | 49
Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest) | 25
Tell HN: Wanted to give dang appreciation | 5
An exposed .git folder let us dox a phishing campaign | 21
GitHub Is Having Issues | 1
Dark Mode for HN is overdue | 49
Facebook has made it impossible to delete Pages – dark patterns everywhere | 16
Is building for the web even worth it now? | 36
How to learn concurrency? | 20
Anyone else disillusioned with "AI experts" in their team? | 59
Cloudflare Down? | 4
I changed my address, and TransferWise in two days will empty my account | 30
Cloud providers are losing in favor of bare-metal? | 30
Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years? | 37
Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops | 5
Tell HN: Cursor exposes side projects to your employer | 22
What is the most beautiful / highest quality code you've seen (or written)? | 18
Cloudflare is down. How does this affect you? | 2
What open source projects are you grateful for? | 53
Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn? | 4
Modern C# book for experienced developers? | 7
What are the ethics at YC? | 12
Cloudflare WAF Alternatives? | 15
Could Microsoft replace its CEO with ChatGPT? | 39
What are some modern technologies that you refuse to adopt? | 59
The new Grok on X is aligned to favor Elon Musk over anyone else when asked | 3
Color.io Is Going Offline | 16
Should account creation/origin country be displayed on HN profiles? | 37
Is America in Recession? | 39
Why All the Indonesian Spam? | 7
Is GitHub down for you as well? | 10
Why does Y Combinator seem to be consistently funding AI slop? | 14
Why is everyone in tech so performative/two faced | 32
Scheduling stateful nodes when MMAP makes memory accounting a lie | 27
Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone? | 10
Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth? | 80
How would you architect a RAG system for 10M+ documents today? | 9
Is Computer Science still a good choice? | 35
Boring Laser Eyes Simulator: Add laser beams to your eyes with your webcam | 4
What were the best books you read in 2025? | 20
What is the current state of the art in BIG (>5TB) cloud backups? | 20
What are you working on? (Dec 2025) | 28
How do you balance creativity, love for the craft, and money? | 13
Is Cloudflare Down for You? | 12
Effective way to deal with mosquitoes? | 34
Engineers working AI tools. Are you working more or less? | 22
Why is OpenAI lying about the data its collecting on users? | 14
What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 36
Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE? | 10
Looking for a donated PC or laptop for freelance work | 10
Tell HN: Cursor charged 19 subscriptions, won't refund | 7
Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer | 8
Tell HN: I'm posting this while in flight over Atlantic Ocean | 9
Built a Pomodoro timer for ADHD brains: always visible progress bar | 4
Struggling founders, pls share your startup struggle | 19
Which cloud provider do you like best and why? | 19
Is it time to measure Inflation and CPI without the government? | 6
What fiction books would you recommend for programmers? | 30
How do you monitor the threads on HN you are engaging with? | 10
What work problems would your company pay to solve? | 18
Tell HN: Declaration of Independence is 100% AI, according to AI Checker | 3
I Stopped Performing Online and Started Building Again | 12
Why "all-in-one" productivity tools confuse new users | 16
How does one get involved in FPGA development? | 16
CoinTracker Third-party security incident (Mixpanel) | 4
Who Is Looking for a Consultant? | 1
Why doesn't someone just send the Epstein files to WikiLeaks? | 10
How do you handle lost webhooks in production? | 11
The death of Arduino? | 1
Where can you find old NetBSD packages? | 5
LED Streetlights Are Disrupting Ecosystems – A Systems Failure | 2
Tell HN: Google increased existing finetuned model latency by 5x | 2
Archive.today Down? | 6
Does anyone else feel like a 'manager' now, with AI? | 12
Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays? | 7
Does anyone just listen to their own AI music now? | 19
What are young technically minded people reading? | 14
Posted AI book on algorithms–5.3K views, zero sales. What now? | 10
I haven't had to buy a Windows computer in 20 years | 18
Are you still working with a website that requires Internet Explorer? | 10
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2025) | 37
Malware in PostHog NPM packages | 9
Is it still worth learning a new programming language? | 15