Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 424
  2. What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth? | 134
  3. What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? | 346
  4. What did you read in 2025? | 288
  5. 60 Minutes: Cecot | 10
  6. My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do? | 66
  7. Looking for Decent Conversation? | 13
  8. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 56
  9. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal | 29
  10. What would you do if you didn't work in tech? | 140
  11. What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors? | 25
  12. Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet? | 57
  13. Why Did Python Win? | 153
  14. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff | 30
  15. Pivot from SWE to What? | 38
  16. What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great? | 140
  17. MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit | 38
  18. What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models | 52
  19. Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN? | 27
  20. At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer? | 21
  21. What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting | 5
  22. What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025? | 2
  23. What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026? | 20
  24. What do you consider fun? | 13
  25. Why Do You Blog? | 11
  26. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 4
  27. Why is human downloading a file called pirating and AI scraping called training | 12
  28. How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ? | 31
  29. Oberon et al., vs. Rust | 30
  30. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end | 13
  31. What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026? | 7
  32. The subtle Red of HN and so minimalist and beautiful | 4
  33. What did you lose forever because you had no backup? | 15
  34. DNS4EU Blocks Blog.fefe.de | 13
  35. Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs | 5
  36. Are you afraid of AI making you unemployable within the next few years? | 49
  37. Why is Hacker News red? Christmas? | 14
  38. Can you patent prompts? | 17
  39. AI Code assistants has made completing side projects so easy | 12
  40. SSH Tiny.christmas | 1
  41. Broadcom Changing Licensing to BSL | 4
  42. Why isn't everyone talking about (and using) Cerebras? | 0
  43. How many email accounts do you have? | 11
  44. GitHub is returning Gateway Time-outs | 6
  45. Why Do People Prefer YouTube Videos over Big-Budget Movies and TV Shows? | 11
  46. Resources to get better at outbound sales? | 5
  47. What is the most complex software you've built single handedly? | 2
  48. The offline geocoder we wanted | 2
  49. Do you have an exit plan for Slack? | 6
  50. How do you use the "waiting time" while Claude (other LLMs) is working? | 5
  51. LLM Benchmark: Frontier models now statistically indistinguishable | 4
  52. What public Claude Code MCPs, Skills do you have installed and use? | 6
  53. As HN: How do I route around Substack's age verification? | 5
  54. Why do some people feel emotionally attached to AI models | 2
  55. HarmonyOS Open Source Development | 0
  56. Books in 2025 | 5
  57. What are the best personal blogs that you're reading? | 2
  58. Is ChatGPT getting buggier over time or is it me? | 4
  59. How would you learn to code in 2026? | 10
  60. Does XML still have any value in creating APIs? | 4
  61. People who tried both, how does Waymo compare to Tesla Robotaxi? | 1
  62. What are some engineering practices you wish would come back? | 2
  63. Firefox restart and tabs = Google says I'm a robot | 2
  64. Ban HN posts with links behind paywalls – YES or NO? | 6
  65. Is formal verification of practical use in real world projects? | 4
  66. Why are we accepting silent data corruption in Vector Search? (x86 vs. ARM) | 9
  67. What happens when AI doesn't need human tools? | 7
  68. Why do small voting or ranking projects get flagged as spam so easily? | 9
  69. Which is the best sync engine? | 3
  70. Good Morning to Those at Work | 1
  71. What are you using to run your AI agents for open source projects? | 1
  72. Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind | 5
  73. Tell HN: Math academy and iPad and sleep issues solved = me learning math | 5
  74. Looking for contributors and maintainers for a open source launcher | 0
  75. How will the work of people in the software industry evolve now? | 2
  76. Is Dart a particularly optimised language for front-end development? | 3
  77. Favourite Blog Posts of 2025 | 0
  78. How do you turn messy notes into something usable? | 2
  79. AI That Thinks Like Your Brain: 3x Faster with 92% Less Energy | 3
  80. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point | 10
  81. Built a content system that 6x'd traffic. Turning it into product. Want to test? | 4
  82. Did any projects succeed with crowdfunding? | 1
  83. What went wrong (and right) while migrating a Qt Widgets app to QML | 2
  84. Are students replacing laptops with iPads in 2026? | 6
  85. Anybody here ever write apps for Windows Phone? | 2
  86. Postgres for everything, does it work? | 1
  87. What is your primary operating system? | 5
  88. MongoDB warns admins to patch RCE flaw immediately | 2
  89. A SIMD coding challenge: First non-space character after newline | 7
  90. What's your current agentic coding setup? | 2
  91. Are they trying to hack me? | 4
  92. People who wish for the end of developers | 3
  93. Why do so many "agentic AI" systems collapse without persistent state? | 4
  94. Cloudflare Stream + Backblaze vs. GCP for Short Form Video? | 9
  95. Vercel for Desktop Apps? | 3
  96. Would a private, dedicated GPU workstation (EU-based) be useful? | 2
  97. Is the Standard Model overfitting or am I curve-fitting? | 26
  98. Could the optimal vibe coder be fundamentally different from the optimal SWE? | 2
  99. Payload in Amazon "Shipped" Emails | 3
  100. Wish HN: Dark Mode for Xmas (Or 2026) | 5