Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. Share your personal website | 2389
  2. How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? | 1245
  3. Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | 505
  4. Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? | 453
  5. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids? | 88
  6. How are you doing RAG locally? | 157
  7. Who is hiring? (January 2026) | 413
  8. The $LANG Programming Language | 72
  9. What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup? | 68
  10. What are you working on? (January 2026) | 885
  11. What did you find out or explore today? | 436
  12. Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions? | 185
  13. Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam? | 122
  14. Is it still worth pursuing a software startup? | 230
  15. Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) | 438
  16. COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work? | 183
  17. Weird archive.today behavior? | 69
  18. Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned | 79
  19. ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas? | 150
  20. Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient? | 100
  21. Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft? | 83
  22. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies | 68
  23. Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II | 69
  24. Burned out from tech, what else is there? | 102
  25. Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life | 128
  26. Anthropic disabled my account after payment cancer patient/medical data trapped | 20
  27. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today | 6
  28. What are your best purchases under $100? | 249
  29. Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha? | 136
  30. How are you automating your coding work? | 84
  31. How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access? | 106
  32. Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant | 70
  33. Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience? | 121
  34. Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account | 76
  35. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update | 51
  36. What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible? | 70
  37. What is the best way to provide continuous context to models? | 42
  38. Who do you follow via RSS feed? | 53
  39. What's the Point Anymore? | 81
  40. Why is it legal and ok when big corp. straight tries to scam a user? | 16
  41. DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like? | 61
  42. Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline | 33
  43. When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you? | 69
  44. What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service? | 25
  45. Reading list for being a better engineer? | 17
  46. Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan? | 83
  47. How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively? | 57
  48. Junior getting lost | 35
  49. LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming | 46
  50. One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website | 26
  51. Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right | 13
  52. I'm posting this from a memory safe web browser | 3
  53. Notification Overload | 76
  54. Claude Opus performance affected by time of day? | 40
  55. Tell HN: Use news.ycombinator.com/active | 30
  56. For me, Hacker News is probably the best community on the internet | 40
  57. Tell HN: I cut Claude API costs from $70/month to pennies | 27
  58. How would you decouple from the US? | 22
  59. Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization | 9
  60. How to make my website exist for 100 years? | 72
  61. How do you keep system context from rotting over time? | 28
  62. Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder | 14
  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. Help with LLVM | 9
  66. Has anyone else been struggling with search lately? | 19
  67. Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming | 31
  68. What are you working on? (Jan 2026) | 93
  69. How do you find the "why" behind old code decisions? | 42
  70. Why are so many rolling out their own AI/LLM agent sandboxing solution? | 18
  71. What recent UX changes make no sense to you? | 35
  72. Anyone else finding it impossible to land a job? | 23
  73. How do I make $10k (What are you guys doing?) | 47
  74. How to prevent Claude/GPT/Gemini from reinforcing your biases? | 22
  75. Why all the sudden people are writing browsers with AI? | 54
  76. Have we confused efficiency with "100% utilization"? | 22
  77. If you had $10M in the bank, would you still show up to your job? | 99
  78. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026 | 25
  79. Expository/Succinct Books on Modern Physics | 25
  80. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind | 38
  81. May an agent accept a license to produce a build? | 48
  82. Does Hacker News pull posts about Greenland from the front page? | 28
  83. Is Claude Down for You? | 20
  84. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down | 17
  85. Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small | 15
  86. Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers? | 9
  87. Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables | 20
  88. Do you still use physical calculators? | 68
  89. Capital One Strikes $5.15B Deal for Fintech Brex (YC W17) | 2
  90. What's the future of software testing and QA? | 18
  91. How locked down are your work machines? | 25
  92. What's the best talk you've watched? | 14
  93. Revive a mostly dead Discord server | 29
  94. What did you learn in 2025? | 8
  95. I made a lofi page for late night work | 10
  96. How to bullet proof yourself from AI? | 23
  97. Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish | 11
  98. Job seekers, what's working / not working? | 18
  99. Is Programming as a Profession Cooked? | 32
  100. Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters? | 49