Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving | 198
  2. What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) | 1369
  3. Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen | 8
  4. Hearing aid wearers, what's hot? | 210
  5. My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else? | 309
  6. Who is hiring? (December 2025) | 464
  7. Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest | 85
  8. Tell HN: Regrets. Think carefully about how you spend your time | 135
  9. How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer? | 300
  10. How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs? | 189
  11. Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending | 103
  12. Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) | 381
  13. Good resources to learn financial systems engineering? | 28
  14. Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago? | 189
  15. GitHub Down | 2
  16. How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode? | 111
  17. Senior people, how did your career evolve? | 52
  18. What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments? | 49
  19. How do you get over the fear of sharing code? | 91
  20. Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest) | 25
  21. Tell HN: Wanted to give dang appreciation | 5
  22. An exposed .git folder let us dox a phishing campaign | 21
  23. GitHub Is Having Issues | 1
  24. Dark Mode for HN is overdue | 49
  25. Facebook has made it impossible to delete Pages – dark patterns everywhere | 16
  26. Is building for the web even worth it now? | 36
  27. How to learn concurrency? | 20
  28. Anyone else disillusioned with "AI experts" in their team? | 59
  29. Cloudflare Down? | 4
  30. I changed my address, and TransferWise in two days will empty my account | 29
  31. Cloud providers are losing in favor of bare-metal? | 30
  32. Tell HN: Cursor exposes side projects to your employer | 22
  33. What is the most beautiful / highest quality code you've seen (or written)? | 18
  34. Cloudflare is down. How does this affect you? | 2
  35. What open source projects are you grateful for? | 37
  36. We got a $60k tax penalty for a zero-revenue side project | 21
  37. Could Microsoft replace its CEO with ChatGPT? | 39
  38. What are some modern technologies that you refuse to adopt? | 59
  39. The new Grok on X is aligned to favor Elon Musk over anyone else when asked | 3
  40. Color.io Is Going Offline | 16
  41. Should account creation/origin country be displayed on HN profiles? | 37
  42. Is America in Recession? | 39
  43. Why All the Indonesian Spam? | 7
  44. Is GitHub down for you as well? | 10
  45. Why does OpenAI need a federal backstop if it is going to be profitable | 13
  46. Why does Y Combinator seem to be consistently funding AI slop? | 14
  47. Scheduling stateful nodes when MMAP makes memory accounting a lie | 27
  48. Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth? | 80
  49. How would you architect a RAG system for 10M+ documents today? | 9
  50. Is Computer Science still a good choice? | 35
  51. Boring Laser Eyes Simulator: Add laser beams to your eyes with your webcam | 4
  52. Why is everyone in tech so performative/two faced | 25
  53. What were the best books you read in 2025? | 20
  54. What is the current state of the art in BIG (>5TB) cloud backups? | 20
  55. How do you balance creativity, love for the craft, and money? | 13
  56. What are the ethics at YC? | 9
  57. Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone? | 8
  58. What are you working on? (Dec 2025) | 23
  59. Effective way to deal with mosquitoes? | 34
  60. Engineers working AI tools. Are you working more or less? | 22
  61. Why is OpenAI lying about the data its collecting on users? | 14
  62. Is Cloudflare Down for You? | 11
  63. Looking for a donated PC or laptop for freelance work | 10
  64. Tell HN: Cursor charged 19 subscriptions, won't refund | 7
  65. Tell HN: I'm posting this while in flight over Atlantic Ocean | 9
  66. Built a Pomodoro timer for ADHD brains: always visible progress bar | 4
  67. How much time do you spend reading books? | 25
  68. VC-funded startup lurking in my community Slack – how to respond? | 15
  69. Struggling founders, pls share your startup struggle | 19
  70. Is it time to measure Inflation and CPI without the government? | 6
  71. How do you monitor the threads on HN you are engaging with? | 10
  72. What work problems would your company pay to solve? | 18
  73. Tell HN: Declaration of Independence is 100% AI, according to AI Checker | 3
  74. Which cloud provider do you like best and why? | 19
  75. I Stopped Performing Online and Started Building Again | 12
  76. Is Slack Down? | 9
  77. Why has typing on a phone not improved in ~20 years? | 21
  78. Why do designers have repugnant websites? | 10
  79. CoinTracker Third-party security incident (Mixpanel) | 4
  80. Who Is Looking for a Consultant? | 1
  81. Why doesn't someone just send the Epstein files to WikiLeaks? | 10
  82. How do you handle lost webhooks in production? | 11
  83. The death of Arduino? | 1
  84. The amount of fear in bullish investors and bubble companies is unreal | 19
  85. What is the most important thing in life? | 31
  86. Where can you find old NetBSD packages? | 5
  87. What fiction books would you recommend for programmers? | 25
  88. What's a Purchase You Regret? | 40
  89. LED Streetlights Are Disrupting Ecosystems – A Systems Failure | 2
  90. Tell HN: Google increased existing finetuned model latency by 5x | 2
  91. Archive.today Down? | 6
  92. Does anyone else feel like a 'manager' now, with AI? | 12
  93. Where did the tech people on Twitter go? | 23
  94. Does anyone just listen to their own AI music now? | 19
  95. What games let you simulate running a startup? | 11
  96. I haven't had to buy a Windows computer in 20 years | 17
  97. Are you still working with a website that requires Internet Explorer? | 10
  98. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2025) | 31
  99. Malware in PostHog NPM packages | 9
  100. Why doesn't USPS act as a payment processor? | 8