Ask HN ranking for the past month

1. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 430
2. Share your personal website | 2386
3. How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? | 1244
4. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids? | 88
5. Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | 490
6. Tell HN: Happy New Year | 206
7. Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? | 439
8. How are you doing RAG locally? | 158
9. Who is hiring? (January 2026) | 410
10. What did you read in 2025? | 448
11. What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? | 416
12. The $LANG Programming Language | 70
13. What are you working on? (January 2026) | 885
14. What did you find out or explore today? | 436
15. Is it still worth pursuing a software startup? | 227
16. Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) | 440
17. COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work? | 183
18. Weird archive.today behavior? | 69
19. Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned | 75
20. ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas? | 150
21. Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient? | 100
22. Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft? | 83
23. Looking for Decent Conversation? | 17
24. Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life | 128
25. Anthropic disabled my account after payment cancer patient/medical data trapped | 20
26. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today | 6
27. Burned out from tech, what else is there? | 102
28. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 56
29. What are your best purchases under $100? | 248
30. Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha? | 136
31. How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access? | 106
32. Any example of successful vibe-coded product? | 143
33. Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results | 87
34. Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant | 70
35. How are you automating your coding work? | 81
36. Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account | 75
37. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update | 51
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? | 43
40. Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago | 103
41. Loneliness at 19, how to cope? | 109
42. What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors? | 28
43. Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline | 33
44. When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you? | 69
45. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff | 37
46. The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before | 10
47. What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service? | 25
48. Does reading HN make you happy? | 39
49. Pivot from SWE to What? | 42
50. Best Podcasts of 2025? | 67
51. Reading list for being a better engineer? | 17
52. When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand? | 31
53. MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit | 39
54. What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great? | 151
55. How are you sandboxing coding agents? | 32
56. Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan? | 83
57. How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively? | 57
58. LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming | 46
59. Anti-AI Open Source License? | 102
60. Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right | 13
61. One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website | 26
62. Tell HN: Use news.ycombinator.com/active | 29
63. Claude Opus performance affected by time of day? | 40
64. For me, Hacker News is probably the best community on the internet | 40
65. How would you decouple from the US? | 22
66. Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization | 9
67. How to make my website exist for 100 years? | 72
68. How did you learn to code? | 85
69. Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work? | 10
70. Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe | 44
71. Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder | 14
72. By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer? | 91
73. Help with LLVM | 9
74. Has anyone else been struggling with search lately? | 19
75. Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming | 31
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. Anyone else finding it impossible to land a job? | 23
79. Why are so many rolling out their own AI/LLM agent sandboxing solution? | 11
80. 2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up | 25
81. If you had $10M in the bank, would you still show up to your job? | 99
82. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026 | 25
83. Expository/Succinct Books on Modern Physics | 25
84. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind | 38
85. Does Hacker News pull posts about Greenland from the front page? | 28
86. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down | 17
87. Is Claude Down for You? | 18
88. What do you consider fun? | 19
89. How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit | 12
90. Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers? | 9
91. How to use AI to augment learning without losing critical thinking skills? | 14
92. What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025? | 2
93. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point | 39
94. What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting | 6
95. Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables | 20
96. In the real world we pay for everything so why not software? | 64
97. Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small | 15
98. Capital One Strikes $5.15B Deal for Fintech Brex (YC W17) | 2
99. What's the future of software testing and QA? | 18
100. What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026? | 40