Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. What's the "best" book you've ever read? | 941
  2. Who is hiring? (October 2024) | 492
  3. What are you working on (September 2024)? | 1041
  4. Who is pretending to be hiring? | 127
  5. Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts? | 373
  6. Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users? | 190
  7. What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands? | 205
  8. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA | 382
  9. Any good essays/books/advice about software sales? | 93
  10. Who wants to be hired? (October 2024) | 483
  11. Tell HN: DigitalRiver/MyCommerce stopped paying vendors since July | 42
  12. Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it | 106
  13. What breakthrough helped you build and maintain better relationships? | 93
  14. Solopreneurs, how did you come up with your idea? | 86
  15. If AI is helping people code better, why aren't products getting better? | 161
  16. Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro? | 112
  17. If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently? | 331
  18. What is the best way to learn Erlang? | 62
  19. Anyone learned art (drawing, caricature etc.) as an adult? | 91
  20. Is AWS S3 having an outage? | 44
  21. Why is there not more concern about the physical security of Cloudflare? | 53
  22. Audioscrape: Building in Rust When Everyone Said I Shouldn't | 45
  23. What is happening in tech unrelated to AI? | 66
  24. Tell HN: The Wayback Machine is up, in read-only mode | 22
  25. Why Isn't Elixir More Popular? | 89
  26. What tools should I use to manage secrets from env files? | 79
  27. Good Online Maths Communities? | 27
  28. How to deal with AI generated sloppy code | 64
  29. Happy Birthday to us KDE is 28 years old today | 30
  30. What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager? | 154
  31. Tips for hacking a TV? | 70
  32. What do you use to backup your VMs? | 57
  33. Do you track how your email address is used? | 98
  34. Have you built something that users have become addicted to or overused? | 37
  35. How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow? | 75
  36. What type of Auth are you using on your side projects? | 70
  37. Sci-fi recommendations by non-western authors? | 56
  38. In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts? | 43
  39. Best AI Code Assistant? | 90
  40. Where would you publish content that should outlive you? | 56
  41. How to Improve Memory? | 44
  42. Where After WordPress? | 66
  43. Brutal Startup Failure | 28
  44. How do you add guard rails in LLM response without breaking streaming? | 24
  45. Hammer Looking for a Nail, AI Drone Looking for Business Case | 51
  46. What is your opinion on Open BSD? | 59
  47. Do 10DLC Requirements make it impossible for hobby projects to send SMS? | 19
  48. In 2024, is SWE a sustainable career? | 62
  49. Alternatives to Bitwarden? | 26
  50. What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written? | 52
  51. How close are we to replace animal models with software? | 48
  52. Is Nextcloud a Great Alternative to Dropbox/Google Drive for Startups? | 67
  53. How to learn UI/UX as a data/BE engineer? | 25
  54. Why does current interest in retro computing focus on the early 80s? | 85
  55. How Many Hours Do You Code in a Day? | 52
  56. Have You Wanted to Quit Social Media? | 41
  57. What will the WordPress meltdown mean for Automattic's other products? | 19
  58. What's the Alternative to Agile? | 37
  59. What should I buy in Japan? | 33
  60. How do you stay up to date without over consuming? | 12
  61. Idea stolen during an interview. What should I do? | 55
  62. Why do you use Llama models? and what support do you need to build on Llama | 19
  63. Tell HN: Texas about to execute Robert Roberson, a 57-year-old man with autism | 4
  64. How did you replace Teleport? | 16
  65. How do you organize your electronic components? | 32
  66. How do you choose where to be? | 36
  67. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2024) | 168
  68. For those who can choose to go to the office, and go, why do you go? | 41
  69. Going to oncology (just for adjuvant chemo) how to prepare mentally? | 8
  70. Why aren't you solving real problems? | 51
  71. Why are so many people leaving OpenAI? | 12
  72. How do you cope with a deluge of job applications? | 46
  73. Can we cut the AI Agent for X thing already | 22
  74. Are new AI code editors adding superficial value? | 16
  75. Ever hit a professional goal but felt surprised by your reaction? | 33
  76. Are posts critical of Google getting flagged shortly after submission? | 23
  77. What are your favorite DIY kits? | 20
  78. What would you do with a 130 ton locomotive? | 47
  79. I have 24 core server with 1TB of DDR4 RAM, what should I run? | 38
  80. Dangers of Unsecured WiFi? | 39
  81. What is one software product that boosted your productivity? | 55
  82. Does My Company Think I'm a Cybersecurity Risk? | 29
  83. Is CAPTCHA even needed anymore? | 15
  84. What is it with this hate and disdain for interns/junior engineers? | 43
  85. What old video games did you love that haven't left a large footprint? | 41
  86. Is distributed systems research slowing down? | 10
  87. What do embedded engineers do? | 34
  88. Why is ChatGPT so bad at electronics? | 44
  89. How do you remember what you have read in a book? | 39
  90. Why is Google Workspace tech support so bad? | 10
  91. Should I Use a Framework to Build an Agent? Code vs. LangGraph vs. Workflows | 6
  92. Had enough – a need for a new beginning | 38
  93. What's an interesting software development niche? | 25
  94. How to Learn 'To Think'? | 18
  95. Let's assume AI does take developer jobs. What's the pivot? | 40
  96. Hopping too many startups in a row? | 23
  97. How do you organize files on your computer? | 37
  98. What's a software project that made people's lives better? | 22
  99. Is it possible to ditch Google Play as a solo mobile app dev? | 31
  100. Our trashy domain killed our reach – don't make the same mistake | 25