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. Tell HN: HN was down | 326
  4. How can I get better at using AI for programming? | 466
  5. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 1438
  6. Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell | 480
  7. Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen | 8
  8. Hearing aid wearers, what's hot? | 210
  9. Who is hiring? (December 2025) | 551
  10. Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down | 164
  11. Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest | 85
  12. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100 | 93
  13. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA | 305
  14. Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending | 107
  15. Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) | 452
  16. Does anyone understand how Hacker News works? | 207
  17. Good resources to learn financial systems engineering? | 28
  18. Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago? | 207
  19. How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act? | 89
  20. Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake? | 122
  21. Was HN just down for anyone else? | 2
  22. What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments? | 49
  23. Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest) | 25
  24. What are your predictions for 2026? | 106
  25. Tell HN: Wanted to give dang appreciation | 5
  26. Tell HN: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging target | 55
  27. Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI? | 75
  28. Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years? | 40
  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? | 11
  35. How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work? | 40
  36. What open source projects are you grateful for? | 53
  37. End of Year Book Recommendations | 20
  38. Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn? | 4
  39. Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful) | 15
  40. What are the ethics at YC? | 12
  41. Cloudflare WAF Alternatives? | 16
  42. Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone? | 9
  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. Should account creation/origin country be displayed on HN profiles? | 37
  48. Is America in Recession? | 39
  49. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE? | 19
  50. Why is everyone in tech so performative/two faced | 32
  51. Scheduling stateful nodes when MMAP makes memory accounting a lie | 27
  52. Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone? | 10
  53. Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth? | 80
  54. How would you architect a RAG system for 10M+ documents today? | 9
  55. Boring Laser Eyes Simulator: Add laser beams to your eyes with your webcam | 4
  56. Thought-Provoking Books | 18
  57. What is the current state of the art in BIG (>5TB) cloud backups? | 20
  58. Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer | 12
  59. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 54
  60. Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month? | 2
  61. What are you working on? (Dec 2025) | 29
  62. How do you balance creativity, love for the craft, and money? | 13
  63. Is Cloudflare Down for You? | 12
  64. Why is OpenAI lying about the data its collecting on users? | 14
  65. What hard problems are still underexplored? | 29
  66. What are young technically minded people reading? | 28
  67. Looking for a donated PC or laptop for freelance work | 10
  68. Tell HN: Cursor charged 19 subscriptions, won't refund | 7
  69. Tell HN: I'm posting this while in flight over Atlantic Ocean | 9
  70. Struggling founders, pls share your startup struggle | 19
  71. Which cloud provider do you like best and why? | 19
  72. Is it time to measure Inflation and CPI without the government? | 6
  73. What fiction books would you recommend for programmers? | 30
  74. What work problems would your company pay to solve? | 18
  75. Is GitHub Down? | 7
  76. Is it still worth learning a new programming language? | 17
  77. Tell HN: Declaration of Independence is 100% AI, according to AI Checker | 3
  78. I Stopped Performing Online and Started Building Again | 12
  79. Why "all-in-one" productivity tools confuse new users | 16
  80. How does one get involved in FPGA development? | 16
  81. CoinTracker Third-party security incident (Mixpanel) | 4
  82. Who Is Looking for a Consultant? | 1
  83. Why doesn't someone just send the Epstein files to WikiLeaks? | 10
  84. How do you handle lost webhooks in production? | 11
  85. The death of Arduino? | 1
  86. Memory Safety in C# vs. Rust | 12
  87. Go all-in on AI Boom vs. enjoy parenthood? | 25
  88. Where can you find old NetBSD packages? | 5
  89. LED Streetlights Are Disrupting Ecosystems – A Systems Failure | 3
  90. Tell HN: Google increased existing finetuned model latency by 5x | 2
  91. Who else got pwned by the Next.js RCE? | 6
  92. Does anyone else feel like a 'manager' now, with AI? | 12
  93. Any online tech spaces you hang around that don't involve AI? | 10
  94. Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays? | 9
  95. Does anyone just listen to their own AI music now? | 19
  96. Bloggers, how do you manage your content? | 14
  97. Posted AI book on algorithms–5.3K views, zero sales. What now? | 10
  98. I haven't had to buy a Windows computer in 20 years | 18
  99. Are you still working with a website that requires Internet Explorer? | 10
  100. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2025) | 37