Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? | 462
  2. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 251
  3. Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving | 198
  4. Tell HN: HN was down | 327
  5. Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell | 552
  6. How can I get better at using AI for programming? | 469
  7. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 1464
  8. What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth? | 127
  9. Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen | 9
  10. Who is hiring? (December 2025) | 555
  11. Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down | 164
  12. Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest | 85
  13. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100 | 93
  14. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA | 306
  15. Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending | 107
  16. Does anyone understand how Hacker News works? | 229
  17. 60 Minutes: Cecot | 10
  18. Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) | 451
  19. My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do? | 66
  20. Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago? | 208
  21. What are your predictions for 2026? | 198
  22. How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act? | 89
  23. Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake? | 123
  24. Looking for Decent Conversation? | 13
  25. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 52
  26. Was HN just down for anyone else? | 2
  27. Who here is not working on web apps/server code? | 100
  28. What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments? | 49
  29. Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest) | 25
  30. How are you LLM-coding in an established code base? | 66
  31. Tell HN: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging target | 55
  32. Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI? | 81
  33. What would you do if you didn't work in tech? | 140
  34. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal | 27
  35. Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet? | 56
  36. Why Did Python Win? | 151
  37. Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years? | 41
  38. What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models | 52
  39. Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops | 5
  40. How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences? | 50
  41. What are you buying your kids for Christmas? | 43
  42. I changed my address, and TransferWise in two days will empty my account | 30
  43. Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN? | 27
  44. How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work? | 40
  45. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff | 23
  46. Modern C# book for experienced developers? | 11
  47. The internet is getting worse every day. How do we fix this? | 30
  48. What open source projects are you grateful for? | 53
  49. End of Year Book Recommendations | 20
  50. Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn? | 4
  51. Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful) | 15
  52. What are the ethics at YC? | 12
  53. Cloudflare WAF Alternatives? | 16
  54. Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone? | 9
  55. I miss the old Internet of 10-20 years ago | 19
  56. Color.io Is Going Offline | 16
  57. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE? | 19
  58. Should account creation/origin country be displayed on HN profiles? | 37
  59. Why is everyone in tech so performative/two faced | 32
  60. Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone? | 10
  61. Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth? | 80
  62. Thought-Provoking Books | 18
  63. Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer | 12
  64. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 53
  65. Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month? | 2
  66. What are you working on? (Dec 2025) | 28
  67. Is Cloudflare Down for You? | 12
  68. What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026? | 18
  69. Why is OpenAI lying about the data its collecting on users? | 14
  70. Should I start a software foundation (goal: help emergency services)? | 2
  71. Why is human downloading a file called pirating and AI scraping called training | 10
  72. What hard problems are still underexplored? | 29
  73. How are most people converting HEIC to jpg? | 47
  74. What are young technically minded people reading? | 28
  75. Tell HN: I'm posting this while in flight over Atlantic Ocean | 9
  76. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end | 13
  77. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 3
  78. Oberon et al., vs. Rust | 29
  79. FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends | 4
  80. Which cloud provider do you like best and why? | 19
  81. What fiction books would you recommend for programmers? | 30
  82. Is GitHub Down? | 7
  83. Is it still worth learning a new programming language? | 17
  84. What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026? | 6
  85. I Stopped Performing Online and Started Building Again | 12
  86. Why "all-in-one" productivity tools confuse new users | 16
  87. How does one get involved in FPGA development? | 16
  88. Memory Safety in C# vs. Rust | 12
  89. CoinTracker Third-party security incident (Mixpanel) | 4
  90. What did you lose forever because you had no backup? | 15
  91. Who Is Looking for a Consultant? | 1
  92. How do you handle lost webhooks in production? | 11
  93. Is Stack Overflow Dead? | 23
  94. DNS4EU Blocks Blog.fefe.de | 13
  95. Are you afraid of AI making you unemployable within the next few years? | 49
  96. Go all-in on AI Boom vs. enjoy parenthood? | 25
  97. How do you deal with large, hard-to-read Excel formulas? | 11
  98. Is RSS Still Alive? | 12
  99. LED Streetlights Are Disrupting Ecosystems – A Systems Failure | 3
  100. Cloudflare has been broken for 15 hours | 13