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. How can I get better at using AI for programming? | 469
  6. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids? | 86
  7. Tell HN: Happy New Year | 207
  8. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 1470
  9. Who is hiring? (January 2026) | 334
  10. What did you read in 2025? | 448
  11. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100 | 93
  12. What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? | 416
  13. Resources to get better at outbound sales? | 68
  14. Does anyone understand how Hacker News works? | 231
  15. 60 Minutes: Cecot | 10
  16. Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) | 397
  17. My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do? | 67
  18. What are your predictions for 2026? | 202
  19. Looking for Decent Conversation? | 17
  20. Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft? | 77
  21. Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life | 127
  22. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 57
  23. How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences? | 68
  24. Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake? | 123
  25. Was HN just down for anyone else? | 2
  26. Who here is not working on web apps/server code? | 100
  27. Any example of successful vibe-coded product? | 143
  28. Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results | 87
  29. Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha? | 109
  30. How are you LLM-coding in an established code base? | 66
  31. What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible? | 58
  32. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal | 30
  33. Tell HN: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging target | 55
  34. Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI? | 83
  35. Loneliness at 19, how to cope? | 109
  36. What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors? | 28
  37. What would you do if you didn't work in tech? | 141
  38. Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago | 99
  39. Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet? | 61
  40. Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline | 32
  41. Why Did Python Win? | 154
  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. Does reading HN make you happy? | 39
  45. Pivot from SWE to What? | 42
  46. Best Podcasts of 2025? | 67
  47. When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand? | 32
  48. MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit | 39
  49. What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great? | 151
  50. How are you sandboxing coding agents? | 32
  51. Reading list for being a better engineer? | 16
  52. LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming | 46
  53. What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models | 52
  54. Anti-AI Open Source License? | 102
  55. Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right | 13
  56. How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively? | 54
  57. How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences? | 50
  58. What are you buying your kids for Christmas? | 43
  59. Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN? | 27
  60. How did you learn to code? | 81
  61. How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work? | 40
  62. By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer? | 91
  63. Help with LLVM | 9
  64. The internet is getting worse every day. How do we fix this? | 30
  65. End of Year Book Recommendations | 20
  66. What are you working on? (Jan 2026) | 90
  67. Has anyone else been struggling with search lately? | 19
  68. At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer? | 24
  69. Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful) | 15
  70. 2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up | 25
  71. Expository/Succinct Books on Modern Physics | 25
  72. Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone? | 9
  73. I miss the old Internet of 10-20 years ago | 19
  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. What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025? | 2
  78. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point | 39
  79. What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting | 6
  80. In the real world we pay for everything so why not software? | 64
  81. Thought-Provoking Books | 18
  82. What's the future of software testing and QA? | 18
  83. How would you decouple from the US? | 8
  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 did you learn in 2025? | 8
  88. I made a lofi page for late night work | 9
  89. What's the best talk you've watched? | 14
  90. The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121 | 6
  91. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 53
  92. Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month? | 2
  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