Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network? | 247
  2. Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent | 31
  3. Do you still bookmark websites? | 138
  4. Tell me about the best programmer you worked with | 28
  5. Have any successful startups been made by 'vibe coding'? | 81
  6. What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them? | 85
  7. My First $500 MRR – My thoughts and learnings | 22
  8. How do you find early stage startups to join | 14
  9. If technology is so good for the world, why are we becoming less happy? | 49
  10. Is Kubernetes still a big no-no for early stages in 2025? | 49
  11. Are we allowed to discuss Israel on HN? | 16
  12. Anyone Else Getting YT Ads from Israeli Government Advertising Agency | 24
  13. Make Flagging Activity Public? | 18
  14. Recently laid off developer looking for solo product ideas | 15
  15. What's Hacker News's vision for the future? | 10
  16. Mozilla Firefox Is Dying | 23
  17. Non-Smart TV Recommendations? | 23
  18. Are you comfortable uploading sensitive data to ChatGPT or Gemini? | 45
  19. GPT-4o quoted deleted GPT-5 content. Model isolation appears brok | 6
  20. AI might worsen diagnostics for physicians | 13
  21. What are you biggest mental / relational challenges? | 23
  22. How do you get your devs to understand your customers? | 20
  23. Where is the exponential growth part of AI? | 17
  24. Is context-switching the real productivity killer? | 2
  25. Dagger and opencode and agnostic agents and SSH app = most portable dev kit | 2
  26. Does Microsoft gain anything from the constant annoying rebranding? | 8
  27. Has dystopian sci-fi been wrong all along? | 14
  28. Beg HN: I Am Looking for a Friend | 3
  29. Where can I work if I'm just a good developer? | 12
  30. What are you *not* working on? | 9
  31. Tell HN: Somebody please make a faster task management system | 9
  32. Has there been an increase in online censorship due to AI search's rise? | 3
  33. My first project in Go is a terminal dashboard (what a programming language) | 9
  34. Ask HN: What bug made you laugh after hours of frustration? | 11
  35. Where are the best online gathering places for humans? | 15
  36. How are you teach your kids programming in 2025? | 9
  37. Does Anyone Use Bitchat? | 5
  38. What to do with a pure mathematics degree? | 23
  39. Who has been fired because they were replaced by AI? | 0
  40. What's the best free AI coding assistant available? | 7
  41. Which Linux or windows desktop do you find the easiest and fastest? | 15
  42. SaaS Bookkeeping and Accounting | 7
  43. Why AI companies so limited? | 4
  44. iCloud Mail or Gmail? | 26
  45. Hardware and software for scanning and OCR old magazines | 5
  46. When to Open Source | 4
  47. Fastmail have fixed a privacy fail | 0
  48. Riff.nvim: Play YouTube music inside Neovim | 1
  49. Nostr and Buildbook: Proof-of-Work Portfolios and Cross-Org Code Reviews | 0
  50. These workers built America's nuclear arsenal. Their medical claims are paused | 0
  51. Ruby on Rails in 2025? | 1
  52. Why is JavaScript STILL the only choice for browser-side programming | 3
  53. Any interest in a HashiCorp Consul fork? | 1
  54. Payments are fixed for freelancers in India. Why not compliance? | 2
  55. AI Code Smells | 9
  56. What payment gateways are you using for a subscription-based service | 4
  57. RT video chat app with transaltion that works between the US AND China? | 2
  58. Why is Prolog not gaining traction? | 2
  59. For those without a Google account, why and how do you manage online? | 15
  60. If you could create any software product – what would it be? | 4
  61. Grok is a scam that engages in unethical practices | 4
  62. If Google will sell Chrome, is that a good thing? | 4
  63. Solution for Managing LLM Prompts | 1
  64. Feeling Emptiness Inside | 10
  65. Do you think programming as a job will end soon and if so, how soon? | 12
  66. How to prepare for potential layoffs in this AI era? | 11
  67. 14 years of building my own 2D game engine | 4
  68. What recent technology made you reach for your wallet real fast? | 6
  69. Which popular apps should not need a backend? | 5
  70. Stopped Using Cursor, for Now | 1
  71. GoDaddy misrepresented my $95,000 domain purchase (evidence inside) | 2
  72. What is your favorite quote? | 7
  73. Imagine coding LLM's 1M times faster; what uses might there be? | 5
  74. Best books on various topics of drawing, art and animation? | 3
  75. ChatGPT Unlocking the Ghost in the Machine | 4
  76. HN meta: 99% packet loss on news.ycombinator.com | 5
  77. Was Ilya Sutskever idolized because where is he now? | 0
  78. How can I use AlarmKit at expo/React Native? | 0
  79. MCP/API search vs. vector search – what's winning for you? | 1
  80. Are vibe-coded self-contained HTML apps the future of personal tools? | 8
  81. Vibecoding in a Team | 4
  82. When the AI bubble is going to crash? | 10
  83. AI Is Not a Dev | 20
  84. How do you keep retros from turning into therapy sessions? | 4
  85. Are there any good educational computers for children that aren't toys? | 3
  86. Founding Engineer/CTO (equity) for music rights/data infra (UK/US) | 1
  87. Can someone review my Laravel code? | 13
  88. How do get cached version of websites – other than wayback machine? | 2
  89. Do you need to promote a job board? | 4
  90. Do You Like Vibe Retrieval (RAG)? | 11
  91. How to build services for FOSS projects when ToS forbids scraping? | 6
  92. Thoughts on Curtis Yarvin? | 21
  93. How do you verify that an uncensored model is uncensored? | 3
  94. What should developers focus on now that AI can do a lot of coding? | 6
  95. Cursos not being truthful again How do folks deal with cursor lying? | 5
  96. Heatwave deaths in Europe >= Gun deaths in the US? | 3
  97. What are unrelated cost of switching to Linux you know? | 6
  98. Should we summarize HN submissions? | 26
  99. How did Bresenham represented pixel grids to derive his line drawing algorithm? | 4
  100. Has GitHub's web UI gotten tremendously slow or is it just me? | 2