Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 430
  2. Tell HN: HN was down | 327
  3. Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell | 560
  4. What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth? | 141
  5. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids? | 88
  6. Tell HN: Happy New Year | 206
  7. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 1470
  8. Who is hiring? (January 2026) | 377
  9. What did you read in 2025? | 448
  10. What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? | 416
  11. What are you working on? (January 2026) | 794
  12. Resources to get better at outbound sales? | 68
  13. Does anyone understand how Hacker News works? | 231
  14. Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) | 417
  15. 60 Minutes: Cecot | 10
  16. My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do? | 67
  17. What are your predictions for 2026? | 202
  18. Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft? | 84
  19. Looking for Decent Conversation? | 17
  20. Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life | 128
  21. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 56
  22. Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha? | 136
  23. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today | 6
  24. How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences? | 68
  25. Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake? | 123
  26. Was HN just down for anyone else? | 2
  27. Any example of successful vibe-coded product? | 143
  28. Who here is not working on web apps/server code? | 100
  29. Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results | 87
  30. What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible? | 68
  31. How are you LLM-coding in an established code base? | 66
  32. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal | 30
  33. Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI? | 83
  34. Loneliness at 19, how to cope? | 109
  35. What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors? | 28
  36. Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago | 102
  37. What would you do if you didn't work in tech? | 141
  38. Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet? | 61
  39. Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline | 32
  40. Why Did Python Win? | 154
  41. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update | 39
  42. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff | 37
  43. The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before | 10
  44. What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service? | 25
  45. Does reading HN make you happy? | 39
  46. Pivot from SWE to What? | 42
  47. Best Podcasts of 2025? | 67
  48. Reading list for being a better engineer? | 17
  49. When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand? | 32
  50. MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit | 39
  51. What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great? | 151
  52. How are you sandboxing coding agents? | 33
  53. How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively? | 57
  54. LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming | 46
  55. What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models | 52
  56. Anti-AI Open Source License? | 102
  57. Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right | 13
  58. How would you decouple from the US? | 22
  59. Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN? | 27
  60. How did you learn to code? | 84
  61. Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work? | 7
  62. Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe | 43
  63. By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer? | 91
  64. Help with LLVM | 9
  65. The internet is getting worse every day. How do we fix this? | 30
  66. Has anyone else been struggling with search lately? | 20
  67. What are you working on? (Jan 2026) | 92
  68. At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer? | 24
  69. 2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up | 25
  70. Expository/Succinct Books on Modern Physics | 25
  71. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026 | 24
  72. What do you consider fun? | 19
  73. How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit | 12
  74. How to use AI to augment learning without losing critical thinking skills? | 14
  75. What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025? | 2
  76. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point | 39
  77. What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting | 6
  78. In the real world we pay for everything so why not software? | 64
  79. What's the future of software testing and QA? | 18
  80. Why Do You Blog? | 13
  81. What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026? | 40
  82. What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026? | 24
  83. What's the best talk you've watched? | 14
  84. What did you learn in 2025? | 8
  85. I made a lofi page for late night work | 10
  86. The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121 | 6
  87. Inducing self-NSFW classification in image models to prevent deepfakes edits | 16
  88. Best practices for long-run LED strip installs (20–50M) to avoid flicker? | 21
  89. Is Programming as a Profession Cooked? | 32
  90. Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket | 23
  91. How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ? | 40
  92. How are most people converting HEIC to jpg? | 47
  93. How to go back to listening to MP3s? | 60
  94. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end | 15
  95. Should I start a software foundation (goal: help emergency services)? | 2
  96. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 4
  97. Why is human downloading a file called pirating and AI scraping called training | 12
  98. Why did ICE deport my coworker? | 8
  99. What do people usually do with spare Android phones? Any practical use cases? | 22
  100. MIT Non-AI License | 42