Ask HN ranking for the past month

Share your AI prompt that stumps every model | 633
What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)? | 331
What are you working on? (April 2025) | 1215
Who is hiring? (May 2025) | 411
Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent? | 223
Hackathons feel fake now | 126
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
Who wants to be hired? (May 2025) | 395
I built a pixel art editor after playing Octopath Traveler II | 47
How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps? | 119
My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do? | 119
Where do you reliably find worldwide remote jobs? | 52
How do you talk about past jobs you regret in interviews? | 111
CS degrees, do they matter again? | 238
Has anyone quit their startup (VC-backed) over cofounder disagreements? | 76
Anyone else roll eyes at startups that went from "X" to "AI-powered X"? | 49
Are .NET 4.x and JDK 8.x the "zombie" runtimes of enterprise software? | 91
Is there hope for Microsoft 365 support? | 55
Memory-safe low level languages? | 117
I don't want to work in software anymore. Where do I go? | 44
Anyone else disillusioned by the industry's hard-right turn? | 31
Magic links are bad UX and make people's lives worse. Change my mind | 40
How to get my development passion/productivity back? | 25
AI Replacing Engineers – Firsthand Stories? | 89
Why is uptalk intonation so prevalent in ChatGPT voices? | 64
What should third world dev do in this economy? | 23
I feel pessimistic about the future – advice? | 33
Has anyone else found Google's AI overview to be oddly error prone? | 40
3rd Week at FAANG and feeling imposter syndrome | 43
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
Writing an Interpreter in Go or Crafting Interpreters? | 27
I am at a loss. What shall I do? | 24
RAG Without Vectors – Reasoning-Based RAG using PageIndex | 8
Where are people sharing their blogs these days? | 24
Did someone dig into the JFK files? | 19
What's a surprisingly useful tech skill that's underrated today? | 42
How do you obtain software development contracts? | 17
Did Aliexpress stop shipping to US? | 16
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
What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time and Money? [Apr 2025] | 41
Zoom Is Down? | 9
Tell HN: Incorporated my software company today | 9
"Police state" search got censored in Italy | 11
Tried to Cancel Adobe. Got Ghosted. Now I Owe $500 | 7
Notion's Lies Sunsetting Skiff Mail | 2
Has anyone managed to pass Meta's Access Verification? | 11
What's the Most Effective Way You've Improved Focus? | 25
Sold my company, parents passed away – feeling lost. What now? | 20
Are there any apps to track grocery prices in local stores? | 19
What did you learn too late in your tech career? | 45
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2025) | 124
How are you using technology to fight fascism? | 18
What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers? | 45
Tell HN: /active and showdead might lead to a more informative HN experience | 2
Getting tired of Helm – any better way to handle deployments in Kubernetes? | 20
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
Why are Americans on this site acting in an anti-free speech way? | 22
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
Cheapest way to host a back end | 40
Is there a list of projects that will *not* adopt AI? | 5
Could we possibly be the last generation of programmers? | 19
What is the best font and styling combo for readability on the web? | 12
Anyone else give up on trying to get rich? | 37
What are your unpopular opinions about programming? | 49
OVH Currently Experiencing an Outage | 5
Payment processors shouldn't be able to charge through an expired card | 19
Has Google Search's index shrunk? | 10
Best underrated way to get a job in tech during a hiring slowdown? | 34
Lessons Learned Writing a Book Collaboratively with LLMs | 8
VPNSecure deactivated all lifetime subscribers | 10
Why do DOGE stories never make it to the frontpage? | 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? | 11
What are the hottest areas of *non*-LLM AI work currently? | 5
Are you interested in a text only browser that runs JavaScript? | 7
AI tools to help you learn faster (GitHub, books, PDFs) | 5
Proposal: Cookie Consent Should Be Browser-Native, Not Website-Native | 12
Cant Americans see Trumps policies are a massive stock manipulation scam | 6
Can vibe coding competitions be challenging and fair? | 11
What Is a Skill You're Glad You Learnt Outside of Work? | 18
Frustrated at Young Programmers | 15
What If Hacker News Was a Spreadsheet? | 1
Software Engineers to follow who have a healthy skepticism of AI | 15
When you've built an MVP, how do you validate that people want it? | 0
Not worried about AI taking our jobs; worried it won't take our current jobs | 18
Books/guides/resources about running a public, web CA? | 7
What are the best books with problem sets that test your understanding? | 7
How do you get into systems programming | 5
Best audiobooks you've listened to recently? (Cosmic horror/non-fiction) | 13
Is Basecamp Good? | 12
What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovered Recently? | 16
Privacy folks – what's your take on using LLMs at work? | 20