Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 251
  2. What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth? | 127
  3. 60 Minutes: Cecot | 10
  4. My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do? | 66
  5. Looking for Decent Conversation? | 13
  6. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 52
  7. Who here is not working on web apps/server code? | 100
  8. What would you do if you didn't work in tech? | 140
  9. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal | 27
  10. Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet? | 56
  11. Why Did Python Win? | 151
  12. What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models | 52
  13. Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN? | 27
  14. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff | 23
  15. The internet is getting worse every day. How do we fix this? | 30
  16. What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026? | 18
  17. Why is human downloading a file called pirating and AI scraping called training | 10
  18. How are most people converting HEIC to jpg? | 47
  19. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end | 13
  20. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 3
  21. Oberon et al., vs. Rust | 29
  22. What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026? | 6
  23. What did you lose forever because you had no backup? | 15
  24. Is Stack Overflow Dead? | 23
  25. DNS4EU Blocks Blog.fefe.de | 13
  26. Are you afraid of AI making you unemployable within the next few years? | 49
  27. How do you deal with large, hard-to-read Excel formulas? | 11
  28. The subtle Red of HN and so minimalist and beautiful | 2
  29. Is RSS Still Alive? | 12
  30. Cloudflare has been broken for 15 hours | 13
  31. Can you patent prompts? | 17
  32. Why is Hacker News red? Christmas? | 10
  33. AI Code assistants has made completing side projects so easy | 11
  34. Broadcom Changing Licensing to BSL | 4
  35. Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable? | 4
  36. Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs | 2
  37. SSH Tiny.christmas | 1
  38. How many email accounts do you have? | 10
  39. GitHub is returning Gateway Time-outs | 6
  40. How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ? | 10
  41. Tell HN: Cloudflare Down Again? | 7
  42. Why Do People Prefer YouTube Videos over Big-Budget Movies and TV Shows? | 11
  43. What is the most complex software you've built single handedly? | 2
  44. Tell HN: iOS 18.7.3 Update Hidden | 6
  45. Is analytics a necessary evil rather than a real value driver? | 9
  46. If you had to get a non-tech masters degree, what would you go for? | 12
  47. How do teams remember why infrastructure decisions were made? | 11
  48. The offline geocoder we wanted | 2
  49. Resources to get better at outbound sales? | 5
  50. Prediction Market Investors – Where Do I Find Them? | 8
  51. Is anyone using LLM based document processing in production? | 8
  52. Should I Open Source Every Product I Build as an Indie Developer? | 14
  53. Running your own email service? | 4
  54. What would you call a package whose purpose is to import data? | 12
  55. What public Claude Code MCPs, Skills do you have installed and use? | 6
  56. Do you have an exit plan for Slack? | 4
  57. At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer? | 3
  58. How do you use the "waiting time" while Claude (other LLMs) is working? | 5
  59. The reason smart founders pick bad startup ideas | 1
  60. LLM Benchmark: Frontier models now statistically indistinguishable | 4
  61. What are the best personal blogs that you're reading? | 2
  62. Breaking Changes in Python-3.14 | 9
  63. Startup launch destroyed by Bolt.new's AI. 10M tokens gone, no response | 9
  64. Does XML still have any value in creating APIs? | 4
  65. If one day AI brain chips become a thing, would you get it? | 25
  66. Incorporate in Which Country? | 1
  67. What are some engineering practices you wish would come back? | 2
  68. Why isn't everyone talking about (and using) Cerebras? | 0
  69. Firefox restart and tabs = Google says I'm a robot | 2
  70. Tell HN: Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison's Apple account has been unlocked | 2
  71. Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2025 | 4
  72. Ban HN posts with links behind paywalls – YES or NO? | 6
  73. Is formal verification of practical use in real world projects? | 2
  74. Why are we accepting silent data corruption in Vector Search? (x86 vs. ARM) | 5
  75. What happens when AI doesn't need human tools? | 7
  76. How would you learn to code in 2026? | 10
  77. Why do small voting or ranking projects get flagged as spam so easily? | 9
  78. Which is the best sync engine? | 2
  79. Why do official-looking emails cause anxiety before I read them? | 5
  80. Looking for contributors and maintainers for a open source launcher | 0
  81. How will the work of people in the software industry evolve now? | 2
  82. Favourite Blog Posts of 2025 | 0
  83. How do you turn messy notes into something usable? | 2
  84. Can we (technically) extract salt from our sweat? | 2
  85. AI That Thinks Like Your Brain: 3x Faster with 92% Less Energy | 3
  86. How to bypass YouTube ad-blocking restrictions? | 12
  87. How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences? | 2
  88. Built a content system that 6x'd traffic. Turning it into product. Want to test? | 4
  89. What went wrong (and right) while migrating a Qt Widgets app to QML | 2
  90. What is your dangerous idea? | 3
  91. What are you using to run your AI agents for open source projects? | 1
  92. Rules for a desirable, non-toxic and less exploitable social platform? | 5
  93. What is your primary operating system? | 5
  94. What open hardware do you wish existed? | 7
  95. A SIMD coding challenge: First non-space character after newline | 6
  96. If it were to be sold, how much would HN cost? | 16
  97. Cloudflare Stream + Backblaze vs. GCP for Short Form Video? | 5
  98. Do you allow vibecoded submissions in your open-source projects? | 12
  99. Wish HN: Dark Mode for Xmas (Or 2026) | 5
  100. My contribution to the idea that we lived in a simulation | 7