Ask HN ranking for the past month

1. The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use? | 731
2. Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network? | 252
3. Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? | 622
4. Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps | 218
5. Who is hiring? (September 2025) | 446
6. How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling | 148
7. Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired | 180
8. Who wants to be hired? (September 2025) | 382
9. Best codebases to study to learn software design? | 92
10. Tell HN: Use "-f**k" to kill Google AI Overview | 93
11. Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser | 41
12. Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent | 31
13. Do you still bookmark websites? | 141
14. What makes you still work for Meta, when it's clear how toxic the company is? | 70
15. Looking for headless CMS recommendation | 89
16. Is Google Down? - EU networking issue | 43
17. What to learn for math for modeling? | 28
18. How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews? | 119
19. Nepal Prime Minister Resigns. Parliament / Ministires set on Fire. | 12
20. GitHub Copilot down? | 20
21. Do custom ROMs exist for electric cars, for example Teslas? | 41
22. How can I recover and run my old mobile game from the 2010s? | 47
23. Tell me about the best programmer you worked with | 28
24. Tell HN: I kinda want to go back to Java | 42
25. Have any successful startups been made by 'vibe coding'? | 81
26. Gandi is holding my domain hostage. What can I do? | 19
27. What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them? | 95
28. Google Doesn't Rank My Site for My Own Brand Name | 25
29. Is your company still hiring junior engineers? | 62
30. Has the Gaza war affected the HN crowd? | 59
31. My First $500 MRR – My thoughts and learnings | 22
32. How do you find early stage startups to join | 23
33. If technology is so good for the world, why are we becoming less happy? | 49
34. Plex Update: Notice of a potential security incident | 12
35. Did modern AI's coding abilities make you lose interest in programming? | 43
36. What to Do with Old iPads? | 19
37. My Workflow Is 70% AI, 20% Copy-Paste, 10% Panic. What's Yours? | 65
38. Good resources for DIY-ish animatronic kits for Halloween? | 8
39. Why does Google word privacy settings like you agree even when off? | 21
40. Are AI filters becoming stricter than society itself? | 16
41. Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW | 40
42. Best foundation model for CLM fine-tuning? | 19
43. Anyone Else Getting YT Ads from Israeli Government Advertising Agency | 23
44. What is the biggest problem LLMs solved in your life/work? | 40
45. Is Kubernetes still a big no-no for early stages in 2025? | 50
46. Are we allowed to discuss Israel on HN? | 16
47. Cloudflare confirms downtime on August 23rd, silently posts it on status page | 1
48. Difficult Interview Question | 40
49. What 30k Free Users Taught Me About Charging $10/Month | 30
50. Does anyone think the current AI approach will hit a dead end? | 58
51. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2025) | 146
52. If AI agents take the jobs, who buys the stuff? | 20
53. I just abandoned my PyCharm subscription, what should I use now? | 23
54. Make Flagging Activity Public? | 18
55. Out of curiosity: what kind of people use this "forum" (I mean Hacker News)? | 28
56. Recently laid off developer looking for solo product ideas | 18
57. What to do when you suspect your interview is with a state operative? | 8
58. What's Hacker News's vision for the future? | 20
59. Non-Smart TV Recommendations? | 24
60. Best self-hosted wiki solution in 2025? Mediawiki or something else? | 8
61. Are You Tired of AI? | 20
62. What options do I have for self-hosted end to end encrypted group chat? | 12
63. Mozilla Firefox Is Dying | 23
64. Anyone using their own custom text editor? | 7
65. Is anyone here deliberately low‑tech? If so, why and how? | 20
66. Claude Is Down | 25
67. Google's move to restrict Android sideloading could face EU pushback | 7
68. Are there any modern devices similar to Palm Pilot? | 14
69. Are you comfortable uploading sensitive data to ChatGPT or Gemini? | 45
70. GPT-4o quoted deleted GPT-5 content. Model isolation appears brok | 6
71. Who reads the "newest" feed, and what do you look for there? | 14
72. What are the best Google alternatives in 2025? | 4
73. Apple adds matmul acceleration to A19 Pro GPU | 6
74. AI might worsen diagnostics for physicians | 13
75. Is 42 too old | 39
76. Typosquatting GitHub Container Registry `Ghrc.io` | 1
77. How do you get your devs to understand your customers? | 22
78. Hacker News Alternativies | 7
79. Are api.nasa.gov, data.nasa.gov down or shutdown? | 1
80. When was the last time you visited Stack Overflow? | 25
81. I got fired from 100k job so I've made a game and it failed | 33
82. Problem with Payment Gateways | 9
83. What's your most valuable query to an LLM? | 14
84. What are you biggest mental / relational challenges? | 24
85. How much are you guys paying for AI coding tools monthly? | 13
86. Why aren't more startups using C#? | 15
87. Why are so many services rejecting Google Voice numbers for signups? | 20
88. Is Reddit going the way of Stack Overflow? | 26
89. AGI Overhyped? | 35
90. Anthropick.com Redirects to ChatGPT | 2
91. ChatGPT-5 System Prompt Leaked | 22
92. Can you recommend movies like The Social Network? | 18
93. Raku.org Chooses Htmx | 8
94. Where is the exponential growth part of AI? | 21
95. Tell HN: I Found Out Who the Russian Chief Designer Was Who Spat on Elon Musk | 1
96. My Reddit account was suspended for sharing a video of IDF losses | 9
97. Are there many C developers here? | 13
98. Which Open Source License to Choose for a Python Language Server | 13
99. What "developer holy war" have you flip-flopped on? | 36
100. Is it possible to do great things in STEM in a not so great country? | 10