Ask HN ranking for the past month

  1. Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator | 462
  2. What are you working on? (March 2025) | 993
  3. Do you still use search engines? | 580
  4. Who is hiring? (April 2025) | 499
  5. Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent? | 223
  6. Share your AI prompt that stumps every model | 407
  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. Google is publishing the home addresses of developers without their consent | 78
  12. Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare) | 36
  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. My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do? | 96
  17. Who wants to be hired? (April 2025) | 329
  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. Is anyone experiencing "AI brain rot?" | 40
  24. Magic links are bad UX and make people's lives worse. Change my mind | 40
  25. Is Washington Post correct in saying Signal is unsecure? | 106
  26. How will the tariffs affect investor funding? | 19
  27. How to get my development passion/productivity back? | 25
  28. Is Hacker News avoiding criticism of Trump? | 25
  29. Why is uptalk intonation so prevalent in ChatGPT voices? | 64
  30. What should third world dev do in this economy? | 22
  31. I feel pessimistic about the future – advice? | 33
  32. If you had 100 hours to learn something new, what would you learn? | 66
  33. Has anyone else found Google's AI overview to be oddly error prone? | 34
  34. Finding Remote Enterprise SW Consulting Leads: Non-US Resident Edition | 26
  35. 4chan has been hacked, Database exposed | 2
  36. Why is my F500 employer okay with paying 5x to freelancers? | 89
  37. What made your favorite manager so great? | 26
  38. What's the ideal stack for a solo dev in 2025 | 35
  39. What books have been worth your time? | 59
  40. Debian Testing/Trixie removes systemd-resolved | 3
  41. Writing an Interpreter in Go or Crafting Interpreters? | 27
  42. As a Founder, is this business model compelling? | 43
  43. RAG Without Vectors – Reasoning-Based RAG using PageIndex | 8
  44. Why does every site's search now insist on giving me what I don't search for? | 18
  45. Tell HN: Archive.is/ph/md/etc. is redirecting me to HTTPS:// rurtnews – com | 6
  46. What's a surprisingly useful tech skill that's underrated today? | 41
  47. Share Your Favorite Bookmarklets | 11
  48. Struggling with Anxiety as a Developer – What Are My Options? | 47
  49. Where are people sharing their blogs these days? | 22
  50. Does any one know if Firebase is a successful from Google's perspective? | 20
  51. Are you finding it harder to enter the US in the last couple of months? | 18
  52. For the privacy minded, How do you prepare for gadget Border Searches? | 20
  53. What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time and Money? [Apr 2025] | 41
  54. Zoom Is Down? | 9
  55. Who is getting actual value from 'AI Agents'? | 13
  56. Tried to Cancel Adobe. Got Ghosted. Now I Owe $500 | 7
  57. Are Squarespace and Wix sites worth it? | 47
  58. I want to work for an entrepreneur who has awakened spiritually | 18
  59. Notion's Lies Sunsetting Skiff Mail | 2
  60. What's the Most Effective Way You've Improved Focus? | 25
  61. Did A16Z get it wrong about stablecoins? | 28
  62. Best Linux distro in 2025 for non-experts | 33
  63. How to Use "Deep Research"? | 17
  64. How many jobs will AI eliminate? Which ones are safe? | 40
  65. Code should be stored in a database. Who has tried this? | 47
  66. How are you using technology to fight fascism? | 18
  67. When so much knowledge is produced every day, how do you keep up? | 17
  68. Tell HN: /active and showdead might lead to a more informative HN experience | 2
  69. As a programmer, How do you take notes while coding? | 28
  70. Why don't we have a functional DSL for data+embedding+API pipelines? | 21
  71. Tell HN: A realization I've had about working with AIs and building software | 15
  72. Tell HN: Warning Google trains on your data when using aistudio.google.com | 14
  73. What did you learn too late in your tech career? | 43
  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. Best and worst jobs of your career and why? | 5
  80. OVH Currently Experiencing an Outage | 5
  81. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2025) | 126
  82. Former BCPL compiler maintainer Simon Langley has died | 0
  83. Has Google Search's index shrunk? | 10
  84. How are you dealing with AI-assisted interview cheaters? | 34
  85. Tell HN: Cursor stuck with outdated VSCode Marketplace, CVEs unresolved | 0
  86. Lessons Learned Writing a Book Collaboratively with LLMs | 6
  87. Why do DOGE stories never make it to the frontpage? | 11
  88. How to make money in the new age of AI? | 17
  89. Could tariffs be used as a reverse pump and dump? | 11
  90. We are destroying any goodwill people have for tech with AI | 13
  91. What can I do as a U.S. citizen to stop this? | 12
  92. How do you consume HN? | 19
  93. Are you interested in a text only browser that runs JavaScript? | 7
  94. Proposal: Cookie Consent Should Be Browser-Native, Not Website-Native | 12
  95. Cant Americans see Trumps policies are a massive stock manipulation scam | 6
  96. What are the best AI tools to turn an idea into MVP? | 9
  97. Do You Take Protein Suppliments? Any Noticeable Benefits? | 13
  98. Are there any money-saving hacks that AI can assist you with? | 21
  99. Has anyone moved away from Mac? | 30
  100. Software Engineers to follow who have a healthy skepticism of AI | 15