Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 430
  2. Share your personal website | 2231
  3. Tell HN: HN was down | 327
  4. How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? | 823
  5. Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell | 560
  6. What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth? | 141
  7. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids? | 88
  8. Tell HN: Happy New Year | 206
  9. How are you doing RAG locally? | 144
  10. Who is hiring? (January 2026) | 406
  11. What did you read in 2025? | 448
  12. What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? | 416
  13. The $LANG Programming Language | 69
  14. What are you working on? (January 2026) | 869
  15. Resources to get better at outbound sales? | 68
  16. What did you find out or explore today? | 373
  17. Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) | 440
  18. Does anyone understand how Hacker News works? | 231
  19. 60 Minutes: Cecot | 10
  20. My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do? | 67
  21. Weird archive.today behavior? | 62
  22. ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas? | 142
  23. Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient? | 99
  24. Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft? | 83
  25. Looking for Decent Conversation? | 17
  26. Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life | 128
  27. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today | 6
  28. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 56
  29. Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha? | 135
  30. How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences? | 68
  31. Was HN just down for anyone else? | 2
  32. Any example of successful vibe-coded product? | 143
  33. Who here is not working on web apps/server code? | 100
  34. Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results | 87
  35. Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant | 69
  36. How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access? | 105
  37. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update | 47
  38. What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible? | 70
  39. What is the best way to provide continuous context to models? | 38
  40. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal | 30
  41. Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago | 102
  42. Loneliness at 19, how to cope? | 109
  43. What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors? | 28
  44. What would you do if you didn't work in tech? | 141
  45. Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet? | 61
  46. Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline | 32
  47. Why Did Python Win? | 154
  48. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff | 37
  49. The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before | 10
  50. What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service? | 25
  51. Does reading HN make you happy? | 39
  52. Pivot from SWE to What? | 42
  53. Best Podcasts of 2025? | 67
  54. Reading list for being a better engineer? | 17
  55. When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand? | 32
  56. MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit | 39
  57. What are your best purchases under $100? | 142
  58. What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great? | 151
  59. How are you sandboxing coding agents? | 33
  60. How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively? | 57
  61. Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan? | 82
  62. LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming | 46
  63. What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models | 52
  64. Anti-AI Open Source License? | 102
  65. Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right | 13
  66. How would you decouple from the US? | 22
  67. Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN? | 27
  68. How did you learn to code? | 85
  69. Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work? | 11
  70. Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe | 44
  71. One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website | 15
  72. By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer? | 91
  73. Help with LLVM | 9
  74. The internet is getting worse every day. How do we fix this? | 30
  75. Has anyone else been struggling with search lately? | 19
  76. What are you working on? (Jan 2026) | 93
  77. At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer? | 24
  78. Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming | 31
  79. 2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up | 25
  80. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026 | 25
  81. Expository/Succinct Books on Modern Physics | 25
  82. If you had $10M in the bank, would you still show up to your job? | 95
  83. What do you consider fun? | 19
  84. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down | 17
  85. How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit | 12
  86. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind | 37
  87. How to use AI to augment learning without losing critical thinking skills? | 14
  88. What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025? | 2
  89. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point | 39
  90. What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting | 6
  91. Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables | 18
  92. In the real world we pay for everything so why not software? | 64
  93. What's the future of software testing and QA? | 18
  94. Why Do You Blog? | 13
  95. What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026? | 40
  96. Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers? | 9
  97. What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026? | 24
  98. What's the best talk you've watched? | 14
  99. I made a lofi page for late night work | 10
  100. Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish | 11