Ask HN ranking for the past month

1. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 427
2. Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? | 462
3. Tell HN: HN was down | 327
4. Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell | 560
5. How can I get better at using AI for programming? | 469
6. What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth? | 139
7. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 1469
8. Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen | 9
9. What did you read in 2025? | 431
10. Who is hiring? (December 2025) | 555
11. Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down | 164
12. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100 | 93
13. What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? | 409
14. Resources to get better at outbound sales? | 68
15. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA | 306
16. Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending | 107
17. Does anyone understand how Hacker News works? | 231
18. 60 Minutes: Cecot | 10
19. Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) | 451
20. My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do? | 66
21. What are your predictions for 2026? | 198
22. Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago? | 208
23. Looking for Decent Conversation? | 16
24. How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act? | 89
25. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 57
26. How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences? | 68
27. Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake? | 123
28. Was HN just down for anyone else? | 2
29. Who here is not working on web apps/server code? | 100
30. Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results | 87
31. Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest) | 25
32. How are you LLM-coding in an established code base? | 66
33. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal | 30
34. Tell HN: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging target | 55
35. Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI? | 82
36. What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors? | 28
37. What would you do if you didn't work in tech? | 141
38. Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet? | 59
39. Why Did Python Win? | 154
40. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff | 33
41. Pivot from SWE to What? | 41
42. The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before | 10
43. Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years? | 41
44. Best Podcasts of 2025? | 67
45. What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great? | 147
46. MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit | 39
47. How are you sandboxing coding agents? | 29
48. Anti-AI Open Source License? | 99
49. What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models | 52
50. Loneliness at 19, how to cope? | 74
51. Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops | 5
52. How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences? | 50
53. What are you buying your kids for Christmas? | 43
54. Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN? | 27
55. How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work? | 40
56. By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer? | 90
57. Modern C# book for experienced developers? | 11
58. The internet is getting worse every day. How do we fix this? | 30
59. End of Year Book Recommendations | 20
60. Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn? | 4
61. At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer? | 24
62. Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful) | 15
63. What are the ethics at YC? | 12
64. Cloudflare WAF Alternatives? | 16
65. 2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up | 23
66. Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone? | 9
67. I miss the old Internet of 10-20 years ago | 19
68. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE? | 19
69. What do you consider fun? | 19
70. Why is everyone in tech so performative/two faced | 32
71. What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025? | 2
72. Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone? | 10
73. What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting | 6
74. Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth? | 80
75. Thought-Provoking Books | 18
76. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point | 33
77. What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026? | 24
78. Why Do You Blog? | 13
79. Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer | 12
80. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 53
81. Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month? | 2
82. What are you working on? (Dec 2025) | 28
83. Is Cloudflare Down for You? | 12
84. How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ? | 36
85. How are most people converting HEIC to jpg? | 47
86. Best practices for long-run LED strip installs (20–50M) to avoid flicker? | 20
87. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end | 15
88. Should I start a software foundation (goal: help emergency services)? | 2
89. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 4
90. Why is human downloading a file called pirating and AI scraping called training | 12
91. What hard problems are still underexplored? | 29
92. What are young technically minded people reading? | 28
93. Oberon et al., vs. Rust | 32
94. What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026? | 7
95. How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit | 10
96. FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends | 5
97. What fiction books would you recommend for programmers? | 30
98. Is GitHub Down? | 7
99. Is it still worth learning a new programming language? | 17
100. Are you afraid of AI making you unemployable within the next few years? | 51