Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. Share your personal website | 2387
  2. How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? | 1245
  3. Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | 504
  4. Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? | 452
  5. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids? | 88
  6. Tell HN: Happy New Year | 206
  7. How are you doing RAG locally? | 158
  8. Who is hiring? (January 2026) | 413
  9. The $LANG Programming Language | 72
  10. What are you working on? (January 2026) | 885
  11. What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup? | 61
  12. What did you find out or explore today? | 436
  13. Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam? | 122
  14. Is it still worth pursuing a software startup? | 229
  15. Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) | 439
  16. COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work? | 183
  17. Weird archive.today behavior? | 69
  18. Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned | 79
  19. ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas? | 150
  20. Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient? | 100
  21. Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft? | 83
  22. Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life | 128
  23. Burned out from tech, what else is there? | 102
  24. Anthropic disabled my account after payment cancer patient/medical data trapped | 20
  25. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today | 6
  26. Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II | 65
  27. What are your best purchases under $100? | 248
  28. Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha? | 136
  29. How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access? | 106
  30. Any example of successful vibe-coded product? | 143
  31. How are you automating your coding work? | 82
  32. Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant | 70
  33. Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account | 76
  34. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update | 51
  35. What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible? | 70
  36. What is the best way to provide continuous context to models? | 43
  37. Why is it legal and ok when big corp. straight tries to scam a user? | 16
  38. Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago | 103
  39. Who do you follow via RSS feed? | 43
  40. Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline | 33
  41. When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you? | 69
  42. DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like? | 59
  43. What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service? | 25
  44. Does reading HN make you happy? | 39
  45. What's the Point Anymore? | 65
  46. Reading list for being a better engineer? | 17
  47. When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand? | 31
  48. Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan? | 83
  49. How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively? | 57
  50. LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming | 46
  51. Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right | 13
  52. One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website | 26
  53. I'm posting this from a memory safe web browser | 3
  54. Claude Opus performance affected by time of day? | 40
  55. Tell HN: Use news.ycombinator.com/active | 29
  56. For me, Hacker News is probably the best community on the internet | 40
  57. Tell HN: I cut Claude API costs from $70/month to pennies | 22
  58. How would you decouple from the US? | 22
  59. Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization | 9
  60. How to make my website exist for 100 years? | 72
  61. How did you learn to code? | 85
  62. How do you keep system context from rotting over time? | 28
  63. Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder | 14
  64. Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work? | 10
  65. Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe | 44
  66. Help with LLVM | 9
  67. Has anyone else been struggling with search lately? | 19
  68. Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming | 31
  69. What are you working on? (Jan 2026) | 93
  70. How do you find the "why" behind old code decisions? | 42
  71. Why are so many rolling out their own AI/LLM agent sandboxing solution? | 18
  72. Anyone else finding it impossible to land a job? | 23
  73. How do I make $10k (What are you guys doing?) | 47
  74. How to prevent Claude/GPT/Gemini from reinforcing your biases? | 21
  75. Have we confused efficiency with "100% utilization"? | 22
  76. If you had $10M in the bank, would you still show up to your job? | 99
  77. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026 | 25
  78. Expository/Succinct Books on Modern Physics | 25
  79. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind | 38
  80. May an agent accept a license to produce a build? | 48
  81. Does Hacker News pull posts about Greenland from the front page? | 28
  82. Is Claude Down for You? | 20
  83. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down | 17
  84. Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small | 15
  85. What recent UX changes make no sense to you? | 26
  86. How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit | 12
  87. Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers? | 9
  88. How to use AI to augment learning without losing critical thinking skills? | 14
  89. Why all the sudden people are writing browsers with AI? | 43
  90. Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables | 20
  91. In the real world we pay for everything so why not software? | 64
  92. Capital One Strikes $5.15B Deal for Fintech Brex (YC W17) | 2
  93. What's the future of software testing and QA? | 18
  94. How locked down are your work machines? | 25
  95. What's the best talk you've watched? | 14
  96. Revive a mostly dead Discord server | 29
  97. What did you learn in 2025? | 8
  98. I made a lofi page for late night work | 10
  99. How to bullet proof yourself from AI? | 23
  100. Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish | 11