Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 426
  2. What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth? | 135
  3. What did you read in 2025? | 403
  4. What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? | 384
  5. Resources to get better at outbound sales? | 44
  6. 60 Minutes: Cecot | 10
  7. My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do? | 66
  8. Looking for Decent Conversation? | 16
  9. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 57
  10. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal | 29
  11. What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors? | 27
  12. What would you do if you didn't work in tech? | 141
  13. Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet? | 57
  14. Why Did Python Win? | 153
  15. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff | 33
  16. Pivot from SWE to What? | 41
  17. MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit | 38
  18. What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great? | 145
  19. What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models | 52
  20. How are you sandboxing coding agents? | 29
  21. The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before | 7
  22. Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN? | 27
  23. At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer? | 22
  24. 2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up | 21
  25. What do you consider fun? | 14
  26. What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025? | 2
  27. What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting | 6
  28. What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026? | 24
  29. Why Do You Blog? | 13
  30. How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ? | 35
  31. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end | 13
  32. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 4
  33. Why is human downloading a file called pirating and AI scraping called training | 12
  34. Oberon et al., vs. Rust | 30
  35. What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026? | 7
  36. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point | 23
  37. The subtle Red of HN and so minimalist and beautiful | 4
  38. What did you lose forever because you had no backup? | 15
  39. DNS4EU Blocks Blog.fefe.de | 13
  40. Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs | 5
  41. Why is Hacker News red? Christmas? | 14
  42. Can you patent prompts? | 17
  43. Why isn't everyone talking about (and using) Cerebras? | 0
  44. SSH Tiny.christmas | 1
  45. Broadcom Changing Licensing to BSL | 4
  46. How many email accounts do you have? | 11
  47. GitHub is returning Gateway Time-outs | 6
  48. People who tried both, how does Waymo compare to Tesla Robotaxi? | 3
  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. Bloat in software is getting WAAAY out of hand | 4
  52. What public Claude Code MCPs, Skills do you have installed and use? | 6
  53. Postgres for everything, does it work? | 5
  54. As HN: How do I route around Substack's age verification? | 5
  55. Why do some people feel emotionally attached to AI models | 2
  56. HarmonyOS Open Source Development | 0
  57. Is the windows11 mandate to upgrade hardware akin to older corp's toxic messes? | 4
  58. Books in 2025 | 5
  59. What are the best personal blogs that you're reading? | 2
  60. Is ChatGPT getting buggier over time or is it me? | 4
  61. What was the hardest bug you tracked down in 2025? | 3
  62. Does XML still have any value in creating APIs? | 4
  63. Is Dart a particularly optimised language for front-end development? | 8
  64. What are some engineering practices you wish would come back? | 2
  65. Firefox restart and tabs = Google says I'm a robot | 2
  66. How do you turn messy notes into something usable? | 2
  67. Ban HN posts with links behind paywalls – YES or NO? | 6
  68. Is formal verification of practical use in real world projects? | 4
  69. Would anyone pay for a social network with no ads or data harvesting? | 17
  70. Why are we accepting silent data corruption in Vector Search? (x86 vs. ARM) | 9
  71. What happens when AI doesn't need human tools? | 7
  72. Why do small voting or ranking projects get flagged as spam so easily? | 9
  73. Which is the best sync engine? | 3
  74. Good Morning to Those at Work | 1
  75. What are you using to run your AI agents for open source projects? | 1
  76. Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind | 5
  77. Tell HN: Math academy and iPad and sleep issues solved = me learning math | 5
  78. How will the work of people in the software industry evolve now? | 2
  79. Favourite Blog Posts of 2025 | 0
  80. AI That Thinks Like Your Brain: 3x Faster with 92% Less Energy | 3
  81. What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? | 0
  82. Did any projects succeed with crowdfunding? | 1
  83. Any others here constantly reminded of Vonnegut's Player Piano lately? | 1
  84. What went wrong (and right) while migrating a Qt Widgets app to QML | 2
  85. Are students replacing laptops with iPads in 2026? | 6
  86. Anybody here ever write apps for Windows Phone? | 2
  87. Why blog, when you can write in notepad? | 5
  88. What is your primary operating system? | 5
  89. HN Blocks Sites Like Fox News? | 15
  90. Does Confluence still suck today? | 3
  91. A SIMD coding challenge: First non-space character after newline | 9
  92. Are they trying to hack me? | 4
  93. I built a SaaS that nobody asked for, now what? | 6
  94. People who wish for the end of developers | 3
  95. Why do so many "agentic AI" systems collapse without persistent state? | 4
  96. Cloudflare Stream + Backblaze vs. GCP for Short Form Video? | 9
  97. How to go back to listening to MP3s? | 7
  98. Is the Standard Model overfitting or am I curve-fitting? | 27
  99. Payload in Amazon "Shipped" Emails | 3
  100. Wish HN: Dark Mode for Xmas (Or 2026) | 5