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. Who is hiring? (January 2026) | 384
  8. What did you read in 2025? | 448
  9. What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? | 416
  10. What are you working on? (January 2026) | 838
  11. Resources to get better at outbound sales? | 68
  12. Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) | 427
  13. Does anyone understand how Hacker News works? | 231
  14. 60 Minutes: Cecot | 10
  15. The $LANG Programming Language | 28
  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. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today | 6
  22. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 56
  23. Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha? | 136
  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. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update | 46
  31. What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible? | 70
  32. How are you LLM-coding in an established code base? | 66
  33. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal | 30
  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. Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient? | 67
  39. Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet? | 61
  40. ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas? | 79
  41. Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline | 32
  42. Why Did Python Win? | 154
  43. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff | 37
  44. The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before | 10
  45. What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service? | 25
  46. Does reading HN make you happy? | 39
  47. Pivot from SWE to What? | 42
  48. Best Podcasts of 2025? | 67
  49. Reading list for being a better engineer? | 17
  50. When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand? | 32
  51. MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit | 39
  52. What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great? | 151
  53. How are you sandboxing coding agents? | 33
  54. How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively? | 57
  55. LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming | 46
  56. What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models | 52
  57. Anti-AI Open Source License? | 102
  58. Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right | 13
  59. Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan? | 58
  60. How would you decouple from the US? | 22
  61. Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN? | 27
  62. How did you learn to code? | 85
  63. Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work? | 10
  64. Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe | 44
  65. By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer? | 91
  66. Help with LLVM | 9
  67. The internet is getting worse every day. How do we fix this? | 30
  68. Has anyone else been struggling with search lately? | 20
  69. What are you working on? (Jan 2026) | 93
  70. At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer? | 24
  71. 2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up | 25
  72. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026 | 24
  73. Expository/Succinct Books on Modern Physics | 25
  74. What do you consider fun? | 19
  75. How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit | 12
  76. How to use AI to augment learning without losing critical thinking skills? | 14
  77. Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming | 22
  78. What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025? | 2
  79. If you had $10M in the bank, would you still show up to your job? | 79
  80. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point | 39
  81. What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting | 6
  82. In the real world we pay for everything so why not software? | 64
  83. What's the future of software testing and QA? | 18
  84. Why Do You Blog? | 13
  85. What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026? | 40
  86. What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026? | 24
  87. What's the best talk you've watched? | 14
  88. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind | 31
  89. What did you learn in 2025? | 8
  90. I made a lofi page for late night work | 10
  91. The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121 | 6
  92. Is Programming as a Profession Cooked? | 32
  93. Inducing self-NSFW classification in image models to prevent deepfakes edits | 16
  94. Best practices for long-run LED strip installs (20–50M) to avoid flicker? | 21
  95. Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket | 23
  96. How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ? | 40
  97. How are most people converting HEIC to jpg? | 47
  98. How to go back to listening to MP3s? | 60
  99. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end | 15
  100. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 4