Ask HN ranking for the past month

Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator | 462
Share your AI prompt that stumps every model | 625
What are you working on? (March 2025) | 993
Do you still use search engines? | 580
What are you working on? (April 2025) | 926
Who is hiring? (April 2025) | 500
Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent? | 223
I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends | 234
Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative? | 187
How do you monetize personal code if it's not an "app"? | 70
Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025? | 72
Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare) | 36
My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do? | 116
Where do you reliably find worldwide remote jobs? | 52
How do you talk about past jobs you regret in interviews? | 111
How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects? | 68
Who wants to be hired? (April 2025) | 328
CS degrees, do they matter again? | 200
Has anyone quit their startup (VC-backed) over cofounder disagreements? | 76
Are .NET 4.x and JDK 8.x the "zombie" runtimes of enterprise software? | 91
What's the best way to get started with LLM-assisted programing? | 45
Anyone else disillusioned by the industry's hard-right turn? | 31
Corey Booker breaks Senate floor speech record | 5
Magic links are bad UX and make people's lives worse. Change my mind | 40
How will the tariffs affect investor funding? | 19
How to get my development passion/productivity back? | 25
Is Hacker News avoiding criticism of Trump? | 25
Why is uptalk intonation so prevalent in ChatGPT voices? | 64
What should third world dev do in this economy? | 23
Memory-safe low level languages? | 108
I feel pessimistic about the future – advice? | 33
Has anyone else found Google's AI overview to be oddly error prone? | 39
If you had 100 hours to learn something new, what would you learn? | 66
Finding Remote Enterprise SW Consulting Leads: Non-US Resident Edition | 26
Why is my F500 employer okay with paying 5x to freelancers? | 89
4chan has been hacked, Database exposed | 2
What made your favorite manager so great? | 26
What books have been worth your time? | 59
Writing an Interpreter in Go or Crafting Interpreters? | 27
As a Founder, is this business model compelling? | 43
RAG Without Vectors – Reasoning-Based RAG using PageIndex | 8
Why does every site's search now insist on giving me what I don't search for? | 18
Did someone dig into the JFK files? | 18
I am at a loss. What shall I do? | 23
What's a surprisingly useful tech skill that's underrated today? | 42
Where are people sharing their blogs these days? | 24
Struggling with Anxiety as a Developer – What Are My Options? | 47
Does any one know if Firebase is a successful from Google's perspective? | 20
Are you finding it harder to enter the US in the last couple of months? | 19
I want to work for an entrepreneur who has awakened spiritually | 18
For the privacy minded, How do you prepare for gadget Border Searches? | 20
What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time and Money? [Apr 2025] | 41
Zoom Is Down? | 9
Who is getting actual value from 'AI Agents'? | 13
Tried to Cancel Adobe. Got Ghosted. Now I Owe $500 | 7
Are Squarespace and Wix sites worth it? | 47
Notion's Lies Sunsetting Skiff Mail | 2
What's the Most Effective Way You've Improved Focus? | 25
Best Linux distro in 2025 for non-experts | 33
How to Use "Deep Research"? | 17
How many jobs will AI eliminate? Which ones are safe? | 40
What did you learn too late in your tech career? | 45
Code should be stored in a database. Who has tried this? | 47
How are you using technology to fight fascism? | 18
When so much knowledge is produced every day, how do you keep up? | 17
Tell HN: /active and showdead might lead to a more informative HN experience | 2
As a programmer, How do you take notes while coding? | 28
Why don't we have a functional DSL for data+embedding+API pipelines? | 21
Tell HN: A realization I've had about working with AIs and building software | 15
Tell HN: Warning Google trains on your data when using aistudio.google.com | 14
Why do we celebrate AI-Copilots but reject AI–Generated art? | 66
Could we possibly be the last generation of programmers? | 19
Cheapest way to host a back end | 35
What is the best font and styling combo for readability on the web? | 12
Best books written on “How to think”? | 17
What are your unpopular opinions about programming? | 49
Tell HN: Effects of the front page on a non-profit | 1
OVH Currently Experiencing an Outage | 5
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2025) | 126
Former BCPL compiler maintainer Simon Langley has died | 0
Has Google Search's index shrunk? | 10
Tell HN: Cursor stuck with outdated VSCode Marketplace, CVEs unresolved | 0
Lessons Learned Writing a Book Collaboratively with LLMs | 8
Why do DOGE stories never make it to the frontpage? | 11
How to make money in the new age of AI? | 17
Could tariffs be used as a reverse pump and dump? | 11
We are destroying any goodwill people have for tech with AI | 13
What can I do as a U.S. citizen to stop this? | 12
What are the hottest areas of *non*-LLM AI work currently? | 5
How do you consume HN? | 19
Are you interested in a text only browser that runs JavaScript? | 7
Proposal: Cookie Consent Should Be Browser-Native, Not Website-Native | 12
Cant Americans see Trumps policies are a massive stock manipulation scam | 6
What are the best AI tools to turn an idea into MVP? | 9
What Is a Skill You're Glad You Learnt Outside of Work? | 18
Do You Take Protein Suppliments? Any Noticeable Benefits? | 13
Frustrated at Young Programmers | 15
Looking to Break into Cybersecurity – Where Do I Start? | 9
Software Engineers to follow who have a healthy skepticism of AI | 15
Can vibe coding competitions be challenging and fair? | 10