Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? | 428
  2. Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down | 164
  3. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA | 303
  4. How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act? | 89
  5. Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years? | 37
  6. Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn? | 4
  7. Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops | 5
  8. Modern C# book for experienced developers? | 7
  9. What are the ethics at YC? | 12
  10. Cloudflare WAF Alternatives? | 15
  11. Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone? | 10
  12. Is Cloudflare Down for You? | 12
  13. Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer | 8
  14. Why "all-in-one" productivity tools confuse new users | 16
  15. How does one get involved in FPGA development? | 16
  16. LED Streetlights Are Disrupting Ecosystems – A Systems Failure | 2
  17. Posted AI book on algorithms–5.3K views, zero sales. What now? | 10
  18. I haven't had to buy a Windows computer in 20 years | 18
  19. Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays? | 4
  20. What is the future of SaaS when things are this easy to build? | 9
  21. Anyone writing code from scratch or mostly doing architecting and LLM? | 18
  22. What is better to use lead-free/leaded solder? | 11
  23. Who else got pwned by the Next.js RCE? | 5
  24. My mom doesn't like cat videos anymore | 3
  25. Why are streaming apps so bad (insiders only)? | 15
  26. Why does every B2B SaaS have to look like Linear/Stripe? | 15
  27. Does anything beat Hetzner Storage Boxes for the price? | 1
  28. Nvidia open sources the synthetic data framework used to build Nemotron datasets | 1
  29. Is Opus 4.5 scaring the crap out of you as well? | 2
  30. Why we dont we have dark mode on Hacker News yet? this is not funny | 15
  31. Better places to work for burntout SWE? | 8
  32. Do you still think public blockchains/stablecoins are useless/a scam? | 17
  33. Selling one's self | 6
  34. Lenovo Support – Hot Garbage | 4
  35. If the US loses, what do you think the world will look like in 15 years? | 19
  36. DeslopifAI – Remove AI Slop | 0
  37. What's your go to for sharing sensitive files with non tech people? | 14
  38. I spent $1000 on Google Ads and here's what I learnt | 4
  39. Thoughts of a Neopagan / the Reconstruction of Neolithic Religion | 2
  40. Is Mythical Man-Month still relevant in todays AI Vibe Coding world? | 8
  41. What's the "best" way to version your product? | 15
  42. What's Next? Clippy Copilot? | 4
  43. Which domain name registrar do you use? | 8
  44. Do you believe Netflix will be a good steward of Warner Bros? | 5
  45. Are LLMs just expensive search and scripting tools? Is it that simple? | 6
  46. Tell HN: iOS 18.7.2 in Lockdown Mode is unable to load many websites | 4
  47. Dark Energy is the thermodynamic cost of encoding information on the horizon | 3
  48. What's Been Your Experience Implementing Web Accessibility? | 11
  49. I built NeurIPS '25 visualizer | 0
  50. Will Kagi's subscription cost reduce with enough subscribers? | 8
  51. Superfill.ai – Open-source AI extension for intelligent form autofill | 0
  52. Did Mark Zuckerberg try to recruit you with soup? | 0
  53. Which post on HN has the most comments? | 3
  54. Are RGB LED installations contributing to e-waste and energy waste? | 1
  55. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE? | 3
  56. What do you do about real art/work being called "AI Slop?" | 1
  57. Tell HN: Being bullied by an Indian compliance automation platform | 1
  58. What are young technically minded people reading? | 8
  59. We're 15 and 17, used our data science skill to build an AI social media manager | 6
  60. Ruby devs earn more than average devs | 0
  61. A 2,500-year lineage of daemon-like naming conventions, from antiquity to AI | 4
  62. Best place to be a founder outside of the US? | 3
  63. Why don't GPU/TPU manufacturers commoditize their RAM complement | 11
  64. How can a web Senior SWE move into a good game-dev or game-related job? | 10
  65. Anyone considered forming a General Computing political organization? | 3
  66. "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads gone? | 4
  67. How do you get human support from OpenAI? | 0
  68. Building an AI agent that grills you on your dev tickets | 0
  69. WebCraft: A C++ 23 async based networking library (which does not use Boost) | 0
  70. CLI tool to hop between AI CLI tools | 0
  71. What's the best book you read in the last year? | 2
  72. Limitless (Rewind) is acquired by Meta | 1
  73. Co-Founder Salary Dispute | 5
  74. What does it take to dodge the cloud? | 7
  75. Best tricks to make a PWA feel more native? | 4
  76. Is a human brain more like a CPU or an FPGA? | 6
  77. Has anyone automated social listening for Reddit/LinkedIn/ with decent accuracy? | 2
  78. How difficult will resuming a SWE career be after a sabbatical? | 2
  79. The Pixel 9 Pro was designed for Google Fi, but the iPhone 16 Pro outperforms it | 0
  80. Accelerating Spark Queries | 0
  81. December 2025: Claude Code vs. Opencode vs. Codex vs. Gemini CLI | 2
  82. Artificial Womb Technology: Survey of 750 Researchers | 2
  83. Founders How do you keep your business strategy,tech stack aligned as you scale? | 0
  84. It's time to buy short positions for Cloudflare stocks again | 2
  85. My favorite talks from emacsconf 2025 | 0
  86. Indian cricket team lost 20 consecutive tosses, a probability of 1 in million | 3
  87. How is you and your team are using AI? | 1
  88. What can I use for a credit card form to get subscriptions? | 0
  89. How did you get your first paying customers | 2
  90. Why not make intelligence attractive, *literally*, in online dating? | 4
  91. How does one build personal network? | 1
  92. Where Are Nvidia's GPUs? | 8
  93. How do you keep up with AI/crypto/markets without drowning in noise? | 11
  94. Thought Experiment: Measuring the Circumference of the Earth from a Bedroom | 2
  95. Cloudflare Is Back Onine? | 1
  96. The Day We Realized Who Colonizes the Galaxy | 0
  97. Firecrawl getting blocked due to headlesness | 0
  98. What do you want for Christmas? | 3
  99. Does hockey tape hide fingerprints on weapons? | 8
  100. Failed launching my SaaS as a Student. Should I open source "bad" code? | 9