Ask HN ranking for the past month

Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? | 462
Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving | 198
Tell HN: HN was down | 327
Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell | 547
How can I get better at using AI for programming? | 469
What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 1460
What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth? | 121
Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen | 9
Who is hiring? (December 2025) | 554
Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down | 164
Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest | 85
Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100 | 93
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA | 306
Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending | 107
Does anyone understand how Hacker News works? | 229
60 Minutes: Cecot | 10
Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) | 451
My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do? | 59
Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago? | 208
What are your predictions for 2026? | 197
How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act? | 89
Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake? | 123
Was HN just down for anyone else? | 2
Who here is not working on web apps/server code? | 99
What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments? | 49
Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest) | 25
How are you LLM-coding in an established code base? | 66
Tell HN: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging target | 55
Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI? | 81
What would you do if you didn't work in tech? | 137
Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet? | 54
Why Did Python Win? | 148
Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years? | 41
Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal | 22
What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models | 52
Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops | 5
How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences? | 50
What are you buying your kids for Christmas? | 43
I changed my address, and TransferWise in two days will empty my account | 30
Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN? | 26
How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work? | 40
Modern C# book for experienced developers? | 11
The internet is getting worse every day. How do we fix this? | 30
What open source projects are you grateful for? | 53
End of Year Book Recommendations | 20
Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn? | 4
Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful) | 15
What are the ethics at YC? | 12
Cloudflare WAF Alternatives? | 16
Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone? | 9
I miss the old Internet of 10-20 years ago | 19
Color.io Is Going Offline | 16
Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE? | 19
Should account creation/origin country be displayed on HN profiles? | 37
Why is everyone in tech so performative/two faced | 32
Scheduling stateful nodes when MMAP makes memory accounting a lie | 27
Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone? | 10
Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth? | 80
Thought-Provoking Books | 18
Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer | 12
What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 53
Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month? | 2
What are you working on? (Dec 2025) | 28
Is Cloudflare Down for You? | 12
Why is OpenAI lying about the data its collecting on users? | 14
What hard problems are still underexplored? | 29
How are most people converting HEIC to jpg? | 47
What are young technically minded people reading? | 28
Should I start a software foundation (goal: help emergency services)? | 2
Why is human downloading a file called pirating and AI scraping called training | 10
Tell HN: Cursor charged 19 subscriptions, won't refund | 7
Tell HN: I'm posting this while in flight over Atlantic Ocean | 9
FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends | 4
Which cloud provider do you like best and why? | 19
What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026? | 16
What fiction books would you recommend for programmers? | 30
What work problems would your company pay to solve? | 18
Is GitHub Down? | 7
Is it still worth learning a new programming language? | 17
Tell HN: Declaration of Independence is 100% AI, according to AI Checker | 3
What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026? | 5
Oberon et al., vs. Rust | 28
I Stopped Performing Online and Started Building Again | 12
Why "all-in-one" productivity tools confuse new users | 16
How does one get involved in FPGA development? | 16
Memory Safety in C# vs. Rust | 12
CoinTracker Third-party security incident (Mixpanel) | 4
Who Is Looking for a Consultant? | 1
How do you handle lost webhooks in production? | 11
Is Stack Overflow Dead? | 23
DNS4EU Blocks Blog.fefe.de | 13
Are you afraid of AI making you unemployable within the next few years? | 49
I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end | 11
Go all-in on AI Boom vs. enjoy parenthood? | 25
Is RSS Still Alive? | 12
LED Streetlights Are Disrupting Ecosystems – A Systems Failure | 3
Tell HN: Google increased existing finetuned model latency by 5x | 2
Cloudflare has been broken for 15 hours | 13
Does anyone just listen to their own AI music now? | 19
Bloggers, how do you manage your content? | 14