Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years? | 565
  2. What are you working on? (September 2025) | 1009
  3. What's the best hackable smart TV? | 185
  4. Who is hiring? (October 2025) | 451
  5. What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000? | 288
  6. What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF? | 165
  7. Paid $2400 to Cloudflare, support refuses to help | 29
  8. Everyone's trying vectors and graphs for AI memory. We went back to SQL | 63
  9. I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the App Store using my story | 135
  10. Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering? | 127
  11. How Do I Get over My Existential Crisis? | 90
  12. Went to prison for 18 months, lost access to my GitHub. What can I do? | 94
  13. Who wants to be hired? (October 2025) | 400
  14. Is anyone else sick of AI splattered code | 84
  15. Any advice on pivoting out of VC-backed tech? | 60
  16. What's your experience with using graph databases for agentic use-cases? | 53
  17. Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why? | 211
  18. Why is software quality collapsing? | 117
  19. Mass phishing emails pretending to be Y Combinator right now | 31
  20. What is the actual state of Linux phones? | 47
  21. Is America Going to Become an Autocracy? | 51
  22. How were graphics card drivers programmed back in the 90s? | 47
  23. Gentoo Linux might be the best desktop Linux distro for advanced Linux users | 63
  24. Dark Mode for HN? | 44
  25. iOS 26 Liquid Glass is awful in many ways | 28
  26. Presentation Decks are a lot easier to create with Gamma | 2
  27. What safeguards does the US have left to protect its democracy? | 31
  28. YouTube is now full of crap AI slop | 52
  29. One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? | 9
  30. Tell HN: Apple Broke Fitts' Law in Tahoe | 21
  31. How Is Everyone Feeling? | 59
  32. How do you say “I don’t know, but I’ll get back to you” confidently? | 61
  33. Radar and radio failures at Dallas area airports | 25
  34. Tel HN: GitHub account locked just after launching my startup. Any help? | 15
  35. Generalists, when do you say "I know enough" about any particular topic? | 89
  36. Anyone else's short-term memory gone to hell? | 30
  37. How Do You Journal? | 48
  38. Tell HN: Phishing campaign claiming to be GitHub Developer Fund | 12
  39. Federal Shutdown Means More Grants Won't Be Reviewed This Cycle | 23
  40. The Death of Utilitarian Programming | 32
  41. Telegram's founder Pavel Durov sends alarmist message to all Telegram users | 30
  42. Am I the only person who hates mobile apps but adores computer software? | 18
  43. How do you choose languages for building applications? | 47
  44. Why did COM/SOAP/other protocols fail? | 56
  45. 10-Year Reddit Account Hacked Despite 2FA [updated] | 29
  46. What 30k Free Users Taught Me About Charging $10/Month | 30
  47. I downloaded the german 8 pm news every day since 2014: Ask me anything | 18
  48. Are there any modern devices similar to Palm Pilot? | 18
  49. Tell HN: Stripe seems to have suspended human customer support | 3
  50. Cerebras: The AI hardware giant facing imminent collapse | 7
  51. Getting over Burnout with Imposter Syndrome | 7
  52. Career Burnout Looking for Options | 26
  53. What Is Your Hobby? | 40
  54. Lost all my sites overnight: Vercel terminated my account without notice | 16
  55. Why is Google charging me $5-10 per click for my own brand name searches | 14
  56. What's the best alternative to Dragon NaturallySpeaking? | 2
  57. AI is a bubble, just admit it | 32
  58. Are startups still using Ruby on Rails to start new products/projects? | 18
  59. Who reads the "newest" feed, and what do you look for there? | 24
  60. Any local agents to help repetitive browser tasks? | 11
  61. How are you dealing with documentation these days? | 12
  62. graduated but no jobs | 46
  63. Is .space TLD Down? | 29
  64. I don't think I want to work in tech anymore? | 11
  65. Is just a tough market or am I unhireable now? | 33
  66. Most effective way to reduce excessive digital media consumption? | 39
  67. What am I doing wrong Re Agentic coding | 16
  68. What are examples of awesome open source project websites? | 7
  69. Times the world has dodged a bullet | 19
  70. Where to find PCB dataset for autorouting? | 16
  71. Is Lobste.rs Down? | 8
  72. I Miss Web 2.0 | 4
  73. How to deal with fake job applicants? | 28
  74. "All you need" is all you need | 0
  75. Stripe to take 30% cut of disputed revenue you recover | 8
  76. What are you working on (September 2025)? | 57
  77. Burnt out by my side project, yet unable to step away. What to do? | 11
  78. Chat Control is already live on Facebook Messenger | 22
  79. "AI-Powered" Is a Red Flag. Here's a Dev's Guide to Calling Bullshit | 8
  80. What modern programming feels like | 1
  81. AI will make smart people smarter and stupid people dangerous | 17
  82. Protests raging in Morocco about education and health | 5
  83. Why is Elonmusk so obsessed with sex and genitalia? | 19
  84. Why topics are getting flagged when it is about Israel? | 7
  85. WTF is up with everything using Android? | 28
  86. Is circular finance a red flag? | 9
  87. Does anyone want to take on the payment processing networks with me? | 8
  88. Tell HN: Opt-out of LinkedIn training content creation AI models | 7
  89. What do you wish existed? (October 2025) | 19
  90. Local hostnames without root/admin | 32
  91. What Would You Do If You Had 10 Years Left to Live? | 20
  92. Launch of my first ever SaaS | 11
  93. Why isn't capability-based security more common? | 21
  94. What Are You Reading? | 42
  95. Is the era of personal software portfolios over? | 11
  96. Are Software Companies Just Selling to Each Other? | 5
  97. Advertising in Microsoft Excel | 8
  98. How to be ambitious/hungry again? | 14
  99. Where can I genetically test myself without risking privacy? | 24
  100. Why don't Americans hire human assistants for everyday tasks? | 27