Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years? | 565
  2. Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why? | 869
  3. What are you working on? (October 2025) | 977
  4. What are you working on? (September 2025) | 1015
  5. What's the best hackable smart TV? | 190
  6. Who is hiring? (October 2025) | 468
  7. What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000? | 288
  8. What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF? | 165
  9. Paid $2400 to Cloudflare, support refuses to help | 29
  10. Everyone's trying vectors and graphs for AI memory. We went back to SQL | 63
  11. I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the App Store using my story | 135
  12. Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering? | 127
  13. Went to prison for 18 months, lost access to my GitHub. What can I do? | 95
  14. How Do I Get over My Existential Crisis? | 90
  15. Who wants to be hired? (October 2025) | 411
  16. Any advice on pivoting out of VC-backed tech? | 61
  17. Is anyone else sick of AI splattered code | 84
  18. What's your experience with using graph databases for agentic use-cases? | 53
  19. Has AI stolen the satisfaction from programming? | 107
  20. Why is software quality collapsing? | 117
  21. Mass phishing emails pretending to be Y Combinator right now | 31
  22. What is the actual state of Linux phones? | 47
  23. Is America Going to Become an Autocracy? | 51
  24. How were graphics card drivers programmed back in the 90s? | 47
  25. Gentoo Linux might be the best desktop Linux distro for advanced Linux users | 63
  26. Dark Mode for HN? | 44
  27. iOS 26 Liquid Glass is awful in many ways | 28
  28. Presentation Decks are a lot easier to create with Gamma | 2
  29. What safeguards does the US have left to protect its democracy? | 31
  30. YouTube is now full of crap AI slop | 52
  31. One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? | 9
  32. Tell HN: Apple Broke Fitts' Law in Tahoe | 21
  33. How Is Everyone Feeling? | 59
  34. How do you say “I don’t know, but I’ll get back to you” confidently? | 61
  35. Radar and radio failures at Dallas area airports | 25
  36. Tel HN: GitHub account locked just after launching my startup. Any help? | 15
  37. Generalists, when do you say "I know enough" about any particular topic? | 89
  38. Anyone else's short-term memory gone to hell? | 30
  39. How Do You Journal? | 48
  40. Tell HN: Phishing campaign claiming to be GitHub Developer Fund | 12
  41. Federal Shutdown Means More Grants Won't Be Reviewed This Cycle | 23
  42. The Death of Utilitarian Programming | 32
  43. Telegram's founder Pavel Durov sends alarmist message to all Telegram users | 30
  44. Am I the only person who hates mobile apps but adores computer software? | 18
  45. How do you choose languages for building applications? | 47
  46. What's the best alternative to Dragon NaturallySpeaking? | 10
  47. Why did COM/SOAP/other protocols fail? | 56
  48. 10-Year Reddit Account Hacked Despite 2FA [updated] | 29
  49. I downloaded the german 8 pm news every day since 2014: Ask me anything | 18
  50. Lost all my sites overnight: Vercel terminated my account without notice | 21
  51. Tell HN: Stripe seems to have suspended human customer support | 3
  52. Cerebras: The AI hardware giant facing imminent collapse | 7
  53. Career Burnout Looking for Options | 26
  54. Most effective way to reduce excessive digital media consumption? | 40
  55. What Is Your Hobby? | 40
  56. Why is Google charging me $5-10 per click for my own brand name searches | 14
  57. AI is a bubble, just admit it | 32
  58. Are startups still using Ruby on Rails to start new products/projects? | 18
  59. Any local agents to help repetitive browser tasks? | 11
  60. How are you dealing with documentation these days? | 12
  61. Is .space TLD Down? | 29
  62. I don't think I want to work in tech anymore? | 11
  63. Is just a tough market or am I unhireable now? | 33
  64. What am I doing wrong Re Agentic coding | 16
  65. What are examples of awesome open source project websites? | 7
  66. Times the world has dodged a bullet | 19
  67. Where to find PCB dataset for autorouting? | 16
  68. Is Lobste.rs Down? | 8
  69. I Miss Web 2.0 | 4
  70. How to deal with fake job applicants? | 28
  71. "All you need" is all you need | 0
  72. Stripe to take 30% cut of disputed revenue you recover | 8
  73. What are you working on (September 2025)? | 57
  74. Burnt out by my side project, yet unable to step away. What to do? | 11
  75. Chat Control is already live on Facebook Messenger | 22
  76. "AI-Powered" Is a Red Flag. Here's a Dev's Guide to Calling Bullshit | 8
  77. What modern programming feels like | 1
  78. AI will make smart people smarter and stupid people dangerous | 17
  79. Protests raging in Morocco about education and health | 5
  80. Why is Elonmusk so obsessed with sex and genitalia? | 19
  81. Why topics are getting flagged when it is about Israel? | 7
  82. Does anyone want to take on the payment processing networks with me? | 8
  83. Build Your Own LLM? | 10
  84. WTF is up with everything using Android? | 28
  85. Is circular finance a red flag? | 9
  86. Tell HN: Opt-out of LinkedIn training content creation AI models | 7
  87. What do you wish existed? (October 2025) | 19
  88. Local hostnames without root/admin | 32
  89. What Would You Do If You Had 10 Years Left to Live? | 20
  90. Launch of my first ever SaaS | 11
  91. Why isn't capability-based security more common? | 21
  92. What do you do while ChatGPT-5 is thinking? | 26
  93. What Are You Reading? | 42
  94. Is the era of personal software portfolios over? | 11
  95. Are Software Companies Just Selling to Each Other? | 5
  96. Advertising in Microsoft Excel | 8
  97. Tell HN: CrowdStrike Falcon users, check for excess KernelModuleArchiveExt files | 5
  98. How to be ambitious/hungry again? | 14
  99. Why are *most* people not interested in FOSS/OSS and can we change that | 58
  100. Why don't Americans hire human assistants for everyday tasks? | 27