Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator | 462
  2. Share your AI prompt that stumps every model | 621
  3. What are you working on? (March 2025) | 993
  4. Do you still use search engines? | 580
  5. Who is hiring? (April 2025) | 500
  6. Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent? | 223
  7. I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends | 234
  8. Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative? | 187
  9. How do you monetize personal code if it's not an "app"? | 70
  10. Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025? | 72
  11. Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare) | 36
  12. My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do? | 113
  13. Where do you reliably find worldwide remote jobs? | 52
  14. How do you talk about past jobs you regret in interviews? | 111
  15. How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects? | 68
  16. What are you working on? (April 2025) | 159
  17. Who wants to be hired? (April 2025) | 328
  18. Has anyone quit their startup (VC-backed) over cofounder disagreements? | 76
  19. Are .NET 4.x and JDK 8.x the "zombie" runtimes of enterprise software? | 91
  20. What's the best way to get started with LLM-assisted programing? | 45
  21. Anyone else disillusioned by the industry's hard-right turn? | 31
  22. Corey Booker breaks Senate floor speech record | 5
  23. Magic links are bad UX and make people's lives worse. Change my mind | 40
  24. How will the tariffs affect investor funding? | 19
  25. How to get my development passion/productivity back? | 25
  26. Is Hacker News avoiding criticism of Trump? | 25
  27. Why is uptalk intonation so prevalent in ChatGPT voices? | 64
  28. What should third world dev do in this economy? | 23
  29. CS degrees, do they matter again? | 108
  30. I feel pessimistic about the future – advice? | 33
  31. Has anyone else found Google's AI overview to be oddly error prone? | 38
  32. If you had 100 hours to learn something new, what would you learn? | 66
  33. Finding Remote Enterprise SW Consulting Leads: Non-US Resident Edition | 26
  34. Why is my F500 employer okay with paying 5x to freelancers? | 89
  35. 4chan has been hacked, Database exposed | 2
  36. What made your favorite manager so great? | 26
  37. What books have been worth your time? | 59
  38. Writing an Interpreter in Go or Crafting Interpreters? | 27
  39. As a Founder, is this business model compelling? | 43
  40. RAG Without Vectors – Reasoning-Based RAG using PageIndex | 8
  41. Why does every site's search now insist on giving me what I don't search for? | 18
  42. Did someone dig into the JFK files? | 17
  43. What's a surprisingly useful tech skill that's underrated today? | 41
  44. I am at a loss. What shall I do? | 23
  45. Memory-safe low level languages? | 80
  46. Where are people sharing their blogs these days? | 24
  47. Struggling with Anxiety as a Developer – What Are My Options? | 47
  48. Does any one know if Firebase is a successful from Google's perspective? | 20
  49. Are you finding it harder to enter the US in the last couple of months? | 19
  50. I want to work for an entrepreneur who has awakened spiritually | 18
  51. For the privacy minded, How do you prepare for gadget Border Searches? | 20
  52. What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time and Money? [Apr 2025] | 41
  53. Zoom Is Down? | 9
  54. Who is getting actual value from 'AI Agents'? | 13
  55. Tried to Cancel Adobe. Got Ghosted. Now I Owe $500 | 7
  56. Are Squarespace and Wix sites worth it? | 47
  57. Notion's Lies Sunsetting Skiff Mail | 2
  58. What's the Most Effective Way You've Improved Focus? | 25
  59. Best Linux distro in 2025 for non-experts | 33
  60. How to Use "Deep Research"? | 17
  61. How many jobs will AI eliminate? Which ones are safe? | 40
  62. What did you learn too late in your tech career? | 45
  63. Code should be stored in a database. Who has tried this? | 47
  64. How are you using technology to fight fascism? | 18
  65. When so much knowledge is produced every day, how do you keep up? | 17
  66. Tell HN: /active and showdead might lead to a more informative HN experience | 2
  67. As a programmer, How do you take notes while coding? | 28
  68. Why don't we have a functional DSL for data+embedding+API pipelines? | 21
  69. Tell HN: A realization I've had about working with AIs and building software | 15
  70. Tell HN: Warning Google trains on your data when using aistudio.google.com | 14
  71. Why do we celebrate AI-Copilots but reject AI–Generated art? | 64
  72. Could we possibly be the last generation of programmers? | 15
  73. Cheapest way to host a back end | 34
  74. What is the best font and styling combo for readability on the web? | 12
  75. Where is all the Chinese software? | 12
  76. Best books written on “How to think”? | 17
  77. What are your unpopular opinions about programming? | 49
  78. Tell HN: Effects of the front page on a non-profit | 1
  79. OVH Currently Experiencing an Outage | 5
  80. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2025) | 126
  81. Former BCPL compiler maintainer Simon Langley has died | 0
  82. Has Google Search's index shrunk? | 10
  83. Tell HN: Cursor stuck with outdated VSCode Marketplace, CVEs unresolved | 0
  84. Lessons Learned Writing a Book Collaboratively with LLMs | 8
  85. Why do DOGE stories never make it to the frontpage? | 11
  86. How to make money in the new age of AI? | 17
  87. Could tariffs be used as a reverse pump and dump? | 11
  88. We are destroying any goodwill people have for tech with AI | 13
  89. What can I do as a U.S. citizen to stop this? | 12
  90. What are the hottest areas of *non*-LLM AI work currently? | 5
  91. How do you consume HN? | 19
  92. Are you interested in a text only browser that runs JavaScript? | 7
  93. Proposal: Cookie Consent Should Be Browser-Native, Not Website-Native | 12
  94. Cant Americans see Trumps policies are a massive stock manipulation scam | 6
  95. What are the best AI tools to turn an idea into MVP? | 9
  96. Do You Take Protein Suppliments? Any Noticeable Benefits? | 13
  97. Frustrated at Young Programmers | 15
  98. We Built an AI Tool to Create High-Quality 3D Models from Regular Videos | 2
  99. Looking to Break into Cybersecurity – Where Do I Start? | 9
  100. Software Engineers to follow who have a healthy skepticism of AI | 15