Ask HN ranking for the past month

Share your personal website | 2387
How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? | 1244
Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | 500
RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids? | 88
Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? | 448
Tell HN: Happy New Year | 206
How are you doing RAG locally? | 158
Who is hiring? (January 2026) | 411
What did you read in 2025? | 448
What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? | 416
The $LANG Programming Language | 70
What are you working on? (January 2026) | 885
What did you find out or explore today? | 436
Is it still worth pursuing a software startup? | 229
Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) | 439
COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work? | 182
Weird archive.today behavior? | 69
Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned | 75
ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas? | 150
What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup? | 24
Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient? | 100
Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft? | 83
Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life | 128
Anthropic disabled my account after payment cancer patient/medical data trapped | 20
Burned out from tech, what else is there? | 102
Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today | 6
What are your best purchases under $100? | 248
Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha? | 136
How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access? | 106
Any example of successful vibe-coded product? | 143
Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results | 87
Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant | 70
How are you automating your coding work? | 81
Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account | 76
Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update | 51
What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible? | 70
What is the best way to provide continuous context to models? | 43
Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago | 103
Loneliness at 19, how to cope? | 109
What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors? | 28
Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline | 33
When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you? | 69
The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before | 10
What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service? | 25
Does reading HN make you happy? | 39
Pivot from SWE to What? | 42
Best Podcasts of 2025? | 67
Reading list for being a better engineer? | 17
When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand? | 31
MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit | 39
What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great? | 151
How are you sandboxing coding agents? | 32
Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan? | 83
How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively? | 57
LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming | 46
Anti-AI Open Source License? | 102
Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right | 13
One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website | 26
Tell HN: Use news.ycombinator.com/active | 29
Claude Opus performance affected by time of day? | 40
For me, Hacker News is probably the best community on the internet | 40
How would you decouple from the US? | 22
Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization | 9
How to make my website exist for 100 years? | 72
How did you learn to code? | 85
Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder | 14
Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work? | 10
Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe | 44
By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer? | 91
Help with LLVM | 9
Has anyone else been struggling with search lately? | 19
Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming | 31
What are you working on? (Jan 2026) | 93
Why are so many rolling out their own AI/LLM agent sandboxing solution? | 13
Anyone else finding it impossible to land a job? | 23
How do you find the "why" behind old code decisions? | 41
How do I make $10k (What are you guys doing?) | 41
2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up | 25
If you had $10M in the bank, would you still show up to your job? | 99
Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026 | 25
Expository/Succinct Books on Modern Physics | 25
Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind | 38
Does Hacker News pull posts about Greenland from the front page? | 28
Is Claude Down for You? | 20
Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down | 17
What do you consider fun? | 19
How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit | 12
Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers? | 9
How to use AI to augment learning without losing critical thinking skills? | 14
Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small | 15
What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025? | 2
Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point | 39
What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting | 6
Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables | 20
In the real world we pay for everything so why not software? | 64
Capital One Strikes $5.15B Deal for Fintech Brex (YC W17) | 2
What's the future of software testing and QA? | 18
What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026? | 40
How locked down are your work machines? | 25
What's the best talk you've watched? | 14