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? | 139
7. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 1469
8. What did you read in 2025? | 441
9. Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down | 164
10. Tell HN: Happy New Year | 166
11. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100 | 93
12. What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? | 413
13. Resources to get better at outbound sales? | 68
14. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA | 306
15. Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending | 107
16. Does anyone understand how Hacker News works? | 231
17. 60 Minutes: Cecot | 10
18. My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do? | 67
19. What are your predictions for 2026? | 199
20. Looking for Decent Conversation? | 17
21. How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act? | 89
22. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 57
23. How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences? | 68
24. Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake? | 123
25. Was HN just down for anyone else? | 2
26. Who here is not working on web apps/server code? | 100
27. Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results | 87
28. Any example of successful vibe-coded product? | 115
29. How are you LLM-coding in an established code base? | 66
30. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal | 30
31. Tell HN: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging target | 55
32. Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI? | 82
33. What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors? | 28
34. What would you do if you didn't work in tech? | 141
35. Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet? | 60
36. Loneliness at 19, how to cope? | 104
37. Why Did Python Win? | 154
38. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff | 34
39. The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before | 10
40. Pivot from SWE to What? | 41
41. Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years? | 41
42. Best Podcasts of 2025? | 67
43. MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit | 39
44. What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great? | 150
45. How are you sandboxing coding agents? | 31
46. Anti-AI Open Source License? | 102
47. What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models | 52
48. Does reading HN make you happy? | 31
49. Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops | 5
50. How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences? | 50
51. What are you buying your kids for Christmas? | 43
52. Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN? | 27
53. How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work? | 40
54. By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer? | 90
55. Modern C# book for experienced developers? | 11
56. The internet is getting worse every day. How do we fix this? | 30
57. End of Year Book Recommendations | 20
58. At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer? | 24
59. Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn? | 4
60. Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful) | 15
61. What are the ethics at YC? | 12
62. Cloudflare WAF Alternatives? | 16
63. 2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up | 25
64. Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone? | 9
65. I miss the old Internet of 10-20 years ago | 19
66. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE? | 19
67. What do you consider fun? | 19
68. How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit | 12
69. Why is everyone in tech so performative/two faced | 32
70. What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025? | 2
71. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point | 39
72. Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone? | 10
73. What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting | 6
74. Thought-Provoking Books | 18
75. Why Do You Blog? | 13
76. What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026? | 24
77. What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026? | 36
78. Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer | 12
79. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 53
80. Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month? | 2
81. Is Cloudflare Down for You? | 12
82. Best practices for long-run LED strip installs (20–50M) to avoid flicker? | 20
83. Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket | 21
84. How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ? | 36
85. How are most people converting HEIC to jpg? | 47
86. The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121 | 5
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 | 34
94. What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026? | 7
95. FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends | 5
96. What fiction books would you recommend for programmers? | 30
97. Is GitHub Down? | 7
98. Is it still worth learning a new programming language? | 17
99. Why "all-in-one" productivity tools confuse new users | 16
100. Are you afraid of AI making you unemployable within the next few years? | 51