Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? | 462
  2. Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving | 198
  3. How can I get better at using AI for programming? | 462
  4. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 1393
  5. Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen | 8
  6. Hearing aid wearers, what's hot? | 210
  7. Who is hiring? (December 2025) | 552
  8. Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down | 164
  9. Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest | 85
  10. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100 | 92
  11. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA | 305
  12. How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs? | 189
  13. Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending | 107
  14. Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) | 452
  15. Good resources to learn financial systems engineering? | 28
  16. Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago? | 207
  17. GitHub Down | 2
  18. How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act? | 89
  19. Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake? | 118
  20. What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments? | 49
  21. Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest) | 25
  22. Tell HN: Wanted to give dang appreciation | 5
  23. Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI? | 73
  24. GitHub Is Having Issues | 1
  25. Tell HN: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging target | 48
  26. Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years? | 39
  27. Facebook has made it impossible to delete Pages – dark patterns everywhere | 16
  28. Cloudflare Down? | 4
  29. Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops | 5
  30. How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences? | 49
  31. What are you buying your kids for Christmas? | 43
  32. I changed my address, and TransferWise in two days will empty my account | 30
  33. Tell HN: Cursor exposes side projects to your employer | 22
  34. Modern C# book for experienced developers? | 8
  35. Cloudflare is down. How does this affect you? | 2
  36. How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work? | 40
  37. What open source projects are you grateful for? | 53
  38. End of Year Book Recommendations | 20
  39. Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn? | 4
  40. What are the ethics at YC? | 12
  41. Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful) | 14
  42. Cloudflare WAF Alternatives? | 16
  43. I miss the old Internet of 10-20 years ago | 19
  44. What are some modern technologies that you refuse to adopt? | 59
  45. The new Grok on X is aligned to favor Elon Musk over anyone else when asked | 3
  46. Color.io Is Going Offline | 16
  47. Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone? | 9
  48. Should account creation/origin country be displayed on HN profiles? | 37
  49. Is America in Recession? | 39
  50. Why All the Indonesian Spam? | 7
  51. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE? | 16
  52. Why does Y Combinator seem to be consistently funding AI slop? | 14
  53. Why is everyone in tech so performative/two faced | 32
  54. Scheduling stateful nodes when MMAP makes memory accounting a lie | 27
  55. Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone? | 10
  56. Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth? | 80
  57. How would you architect a RAG system for 10M+ documents today? | 9
  58. Boring Laser Eyes Simulator: Add laser beams to your eyes with your webcam | 4
  59. What is the current state of the art in BIG (>5TB) cloud backups? | 20
  60. Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer | 12
  61. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 54
  62. What are you working on? (Dec 2025) | 29
  63. How do you balance creativity, love for the craft, and money? | 13
  64. Is Cloudflare Down for You? | 12
  65. Why is OpenAI lying about the data its collecting on users? | 14
  66. What hard problems are still underexplored? | 29
  67. What are young technically minded people reading? | 28
  68. Looking for a donated PC or laptop for freelance work | 10
  69. Tell HN: Cursor charged 19 subscriptions, won't refund | 7
  70. Tell HN: I'm posting this while in flight over Atlantic Ocean | 9
  71. Thought-Provoking Books | 16
  72. Struggling founders, pls share your startup struggle | 19
  73. Which cloud provider do you like best and why? | 19
  74. Is it time to measure Inflation and CPI without the government? | 6
  75. What fiction books would you recommend for programmers? | 30
  76. What work problems would your company pay to solve? | 18
  77. Is GitHub Down? | 7
  78. Is it still worth learning a new programming language? | 17
  79. Tell HN: Declaration of Independence is 100% AI, according to AI Checker | 3
  80. I Stopped Performing Online and Started Building Again | 12
  81. Why "all-in-one" productivity tools confuse new users | 16
  82. How does one get involved in FPGA development? | 16
  83. CoinTracker Third-party security incident (Mixpanel) | 4
  84. Who Is Looking for a Consultant? | 1
  85. Why doesn't someone just send the Epstein files to WikiLeaks? | 10
  86. How do you handle lost webhooks in production? | 11
  87. The death of Arduino? | 1
  88. Go all-in on AI Boom vs. enjoy parenthood? | 25
  89. Where can you find old NetBSD packages? | 5
  90. Memory Safety in C# vs. Rust | 12
  91. LED Streetlights Are Disrupting Ecosystems – A Systems Failure | 2
  92. Tell HN: Google increased existing finetuned model latency by 5x | 2
  93. Who else got pwned by the Next.js RCE? | 6
  94. Does anyone else feel like a 'manager' now, with AI? | 12
  95. Any online tech spaces you hang around that don't involve AI? | 9
  96. Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays? | 9
  97. Does anyone just listen to their own AI music now? | 19
  98. Posted AI book on algorithms–5.3K views, zero sales. What now? | 10
  99. I haven't had to buy a Windows computer in 20 years | 18
  100. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2025) | 37