Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. What did you read in 2025? | 441
  2. Tell HN: Happy New Year | 166
  3. What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? | 413
  4. Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results | 87
  5. Any example of successful vibe-coded product? | 115
  6. What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors? | 28
  7. Loneliness at 19, how to cope? | 104
  8. The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before | 10
  9. Pivot from SWE to What? | 41
  10. Best Podcasts of 2025? | 67
  11. MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit | 39
  12. What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great? | 150
  13. How are you sandboxing coding agents? | 31
  14. Anti-AI Open Source License? | 102
  15. Does reading HN make you happy? | 31
  16. By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer? | 90
  17. 2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up | 25
  18. What do you consider fun? | 19
  19. How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit | 12
  20. What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025? | 2
  21. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point | 39
  22. What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting | 6
  23. Why Do You Blog? | 13
  24. What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026? | 36
  25. Best practices for long-run LED strip installs (20–50M) to avoid flicker? | 20
  26. Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket | 21
  27. The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121 | 5
  28. If you only needed 200 customers at$49, how would you approach it? | 17
  29. How do you get visibility if you're suuuuper bad at marketing? | 20
  30. How do you manage kids' accounts? | 6
  31. A curated directory of open-source AI projects | 2
  32. How did you make yourself more marketable? | 8
  33. Happy New Year HN! | 3
  34. What was the hardest bug you tracked down in 2025? | 7
  35. Postgres for everything, does it work? | 5
  36. People who tried both, how does Waymo compare to Tesla Robotaxi? | 3
  37. TP-Link only works with a permanent internet connection | 7
  38. Book recommendations based on reading history | 9
  39. Bloat in software is getting WAAAY out of hand | 8
  40. Books in 2025 | 5
  41. What are your plans for 2026? | 7
  42. How to go back to listening to MP3s? | 18
  43. What are some jobs you know software developers have transitioned to? | 2
  44. What book are you currently reading? | 9
  45. As HN: How do I route around Substack's age verification? | 5
  46. Why do some people feel emotionally attached to AI models | 2
  47. Anyone still using RSS feeds? | 11
  48. HarmonyOS Open Source Development | 0
  49. Is the windows11 mandate to upgrade hardware akin to older corp's toxic messes? | 4
  50. Is ChatGPT getting buggier over time or is it me? | 4
  51. How the f$ do I get rich in 2026? | 9
  52. What are you building during the holiday break? | 12
  53. Why did Python fail to evolve? | 5
  54. How do you make sure that your source code does not leak? | 1
  55. Is Dart a particularly optimised language for front-end development? | 10
  56. HN Blocks Sites Like Fox News? | 20
  57. Who has been fired "because of AI" recently? | 1
  58. | 2
  59. What do you use to manage your coding projects? | 10
  60. Does the Nvidia "Revenue Sharing Agreement" Tie the US Gov't Hands? | 1
  61. Would anyone pay for a social network with no ads or data harvesting? | 22
  62. Has Anyone Deployed AI in a Small Business and Seen Real Value? | 3
  63. Users decide which online platforms to trust in 2025 | 3
  64. Good Morning to Those at Work | 1
  65. Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind | 5
  66. What Comic-books did you read in 2025? | 2
  67. Tell HN: Math academy and iPad and sleep issues solved = me learning math | 5
  68. Does extreme remote proctoring measure developer skills? | 1
  69. How does an indy website integrate with cookie vendors to make money? | 1
  70. Best ways to create and stay on track with New Year's resolutions? | 3
  71. In the real world we pay for everything so why not software? | 9
  72. Tell HN: Happy New Year! | 2
  73. What is the last book you're finishing in 2025? | 2
  74. Ruby 4 and unicorn segfault (kgio) how to get a gem release? | 2
  75. How do you backup your Google account? | 2
  76. I built an open source cross-platform desktop starter app | 4
  77. 4dev.com Unveils Funding Hub, Simplifying Cross-Border Investment in Startups | 1
  78. Did any projects succeed with crowdfunding? | 1
  79. Any others here constantly reminded of Vonnegut's Player Piano lately? | 2
  80. Are students replacing laptops with iPads in 2026? | 6
  81. Why blog, when you can write in notepad? | 5
  82. Happy New Year | 2
  83. Tell HN: Happy New Year | 0
  84. Happy New Year HN! | 1
  85. Tell HN: No Scrollbar on Google Gemini UI | 0
  86. What skills and projects should an unemployed software dev focus on? | 3
  87. Best Ways to Save on Taxes? | 3
  88. Will all software eventually be open source? | 4
  89. I was tired of FFmpeg, so I made FFmpeg for humans | 5
  90. Does Confluence still suck today? | 4
  91. Orchestrating 5000 Workers Without Distributed Locks: Rediscovering TDMA | 4
  92. I built a SaaS that nobody asked for, now what? | 6
  93. Why do so many "agentic AI" systems collapse without persistent state? | 4
  94. Is the Standard Model overfitting or am I curve-fitting? | 28
  95. I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago | 3
  96. What tiny tool do you use every day but never talk about? | 5
  97. What makes you instantly downvote a post? | 5
  98. Payload in Amazon "Shipped" Emails | 3
  99. What is the best microVMs for AI agents? | 2
  100. Is it enough to use XOR encryption for my journal app? | 7