Ask HN ranking for the past month

1. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 428
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? | 140
7. Tell HN: Happy New Year | 206
8. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 1470
9. Who is hiring? (January 2026) | 216
10. What did you read in 2025? | 445
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? | 414
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. Does anyone understand how Hacker News works? | 231
17. 60 Minutes: Cecot | 10
18. Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) | 284
19. My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do? | 67
20. What are your predictions for 2026? | 202
21. Looking for Decent Conversation? | 17
22. How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act? | 89
23. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 57
24. How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences? | 68
25. Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake? | 123
26. Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life | 114
27. Was HN just down for anyone else? | 2
28. Who here is not working on web apps/server code? | 100
29. Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results | 87
30. Any example of successful vibe-coded product? | 136
31. How are you LLM-coding in an established code base? | 66
32. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal | 30
33. Tell HN: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging target | 55
34. Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI? | 83
35. What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors? | 28
36. What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible? | 57
37. Loneliness at 19, how to cope? | 109
38. What would you do if you didn't work in tech? | 141
39. Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet? | 61
40. Why Did Python Win? | 154
41. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff | 37
42. The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before | 10
43. Does reading HN make you happy? | 39
44. Pivot from SWE to What? | 42
45. Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years? | 41
46. Best Podcasts of 2025? | 67
47. MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit | 39
48. What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great? | 151
49. When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand? | 32
50. How are you sandboxing coding agents? | 32
51. What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models | 52
52. Anti-AI Open Source License? | 102
53. How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences? | 50
54. What are you buying your kids for Christmas? | 43
55. Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN? | 27
56. How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work? | 40
57. By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer? | 91
58. Modern C# book for experienced developers? | 11
59. How did you learn to code? | 78
60. The internet is getting worse every day. How do we fix this? | 30
61. End of Year Book Recommendations | 20
62. At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer? | 24
63. Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn? | 4
64. Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful) | 15
65. What are you working on? (Jan 2026) | 64
66. Cloudflare WAF Alternatives? | 16
67. 2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up | 25
68. Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone? | 9
69. I miss the old Internet of 10-20 years ago | 19
70. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE? | 19
71. What do you consider fun? | 19
72. How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit | 12
73. What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025? | 2
74. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point | 39
75. What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting | 6
76. Thought-Provoking Books | 18
77. Expository/Succinct Books on Modern Physics | 23
78. Why Do You Blog? | 13
79. What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026? | 40
80. What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026? | 24
81. Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer | 12
82. The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121 | 6
83. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 53
84. Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month? | 2
85. Best practices for long-run LED strip installs (20–50M) to avoid flicker? | 20
86. Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket | 22
87. How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ? | 40
88. How are most people converting HEIC to jpg? | 47
89. How to go back to listening to MP3s? | 57
90. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end | 15
91. Should I start a software foundation (goal: help emergency services)? | 2
92. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 4
93. Why is human downloading a file called pirating and AI scraping called training | 12
94. How to use AI to augment learning without losing critical thinking skills? | 12
95. What hard problems are still underexplored? | 29
96. What are young technically minded people reading? | 28
97. Oberon et al., vs. Rust | 37
98. Reading list for being a better engineer? | 8
99. What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026? | 7
100. Is it still worth learning a new programming language? | 17