Ask HN ranking for the past week

1. Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen | 8
2. Who is hiring? (December 2025) | 464
3. Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest | 85
4. Tell HN: Regrets. Think carefully about how you spend your time | 135
5. Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending | 103
6. Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) | 381
7. Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago? | 189
8. What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments? | 49
9. Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest) | 25
10. I changed my address, and TransferWise in two days will empty my account | 29
11. Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth? | 80
12. Why is everyone in tech so performative/two faced | 25
13. What are the ethics at YC? | 9
14. Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone? | 8
15. What are you working on? (Dec 2025) | 23
16. Is Cloudflare Down for You? | 11
17. Tell HN: I'm posting this while in flight over Atlantic Ocean | 9
18. Which cloud provider do you like best and why? | 19
19. I Stopped Performing Online and Started Building Again | 12
20. How do you handle lost webhooks in production? | 11
21. What fiction books would you recommend for programmers? | 25
22. LED Streetlights Are Disrupting Ecosystems – A Systems Failure | 2
23. I haven't had to buy a Windows computer in 20 years | 17
24. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2025) | 31
25. Battling Depression | 17
26. What did onboarding training look like in OS kernel teams? | 2
27. Which web browser are you using and why? | 17
28. What is better to use lead-free/leaded solder? | 11
29. How does one get involved in FPGA development? | 13
30. Anyone writing code from scratch or mostly doing architecting and LLM? | 12
31. Recruiters, does contractor vs. FTE matter? | 3
32. Looking for "invisible" OSS projects to donate to for Cybermonday | 1
33. How to Differentiate a General Agent from Manus? | 1
34. How do you verify front-end code in agentic LLM coding loops? | 2
35. Nvidia open sources the synthetic data framework used to build Nemotron datasets | 1
36. What Are You Working On? | 3
37. Do you still think public blockchains/stablecoins are useless/a scam? | 16
38. Why are streaming apps so bad (insiders only)? | 15
39. What has been your experience with Agentic Coding? | 7
40. TermoSlack – A Terminal Based Slack Client | 1
41. Selling one's self | 5
42. Is it OK to look at AoC solutions? | 11
43. Does anything beat Hetzner Storage Boxes for the price? | 0
44. Any experience using LLMs to license-wash FOSS projects? | 8
45. A 27M parameter model beating LLMs on reasoning tasks | 1
46. What are you working on? (Dec 2025) | 3
47. Others seeing agents do remarkable things when given their own logs? | 2
48. What does Vibe Coding mean for non-programmers? | 3
49. Is GitHub currently leaking private issues and pull requests? | 0
50. Who is fundraising? (December 2025) | 2
51. Did I do a 5 year BS to become an algo whore? | 0
52. Seeking advice in how to deal with frustration against big corps as dev | 4
53. Python terminal app as Android Phone app | 14
54. How do you do things outside of work? | 4
55. CPU-only PPO solving TSPLIB lin318 in 20 mins (0.08% gap) | 0
56. AI-Revived Cube World | 0
57. How do startups protect early inventions without overspending? | 1
58. Which course you took ultimately had the biggest impact on your career? | 1
59. What's the most boring/frustrating/tedious part of your day? | 6
60. A marketplace that kills the hidden ad-waste tax in e-commerce | 2
61. Constant-Current Design for a 100M Outdoor LED Run | 2
62. Obsidian/Joplin does NOT support manual/arbitrary sorting of folders or notes | 3
63. Superfill.ai – Open-source AI extension for intelligent form autofill | 0
64. Why don't closed captions boldface words that are likely to be misheard? | 2
65. Practicality of harnessing geomagnetic fields for electrical generation? | 10
66. AWS Amplify Is a Joke | 1
67. Are LLMs just expensive search and scripting tools? Is it that simple? | 3
68. Dunkelflaute' turns off my monitor | 1
69. Tell HN: Happy LLM Day | 7
70. Which post on HN has the most comments? | 3
71. Someone impersonates my GitHub project, what to do? | 5
72. Is there a HN but more business/startup oriented? | 8
73. How do you inspect Avro/Protobuf records during debugging? | 4
74. Tell HN: Neon Inc is billing free users now for $20 subscriptions | 1
75. How to Convince Andrej Karpathy to join my startup? | 3
76. Dark Energy is the thermodynamic cost of encoding information on the horizon | 3
77. We're 15 and 17, used our data science skill to build an AI social media manager | 6
78. What language are you using to do AOC in? | 5
79. LX: A CLI tool for LaTeX notes management | 0
80. Tell HN: ChatGPT has 13B revenue but can't make a working website | 2
81. A restaurant that shows a video of your burger's cow in happier times? | 3
82. How are you preparing for the impending Android sideloading changes? | 0
83. B2B SaaS founders: what are (or have been) your biggest problems? | 2
84. Anyone using CRM and chatbot? What's broken or frustrating? | 1
85. What Are You Building? | 1
86. How can a web Senior SWE move into a good game-dev or game-related job? | 10
87. Does cross-posting to Medium still help, or does it just dilute SEO now? | 5
88. Have You Automated Cooking? | 6
89. Will Kagi's subscription cost reduce with enough subscribers? | 4
90. Font | 4
91. Do you think you have your location services on? | 3
92. I want to build my own query language | 11
93. Jews in Computer Science | 5
94. What alternatives to Docker Desktop are people using? | 9
95. Indian cricket team lost 20 consecutive tosses, a probability of 1 in million | 3
96. Tell HN: Nascent idea: "super intelligence" is not about superior intelligence | 4
97. Has anyone made money self-publishing tech criticism? | 6
98. Coding experience with Gemini 3 Pro | 3
99. Ask YN: What CI do you use instead of GitHub Actions? | 3
100. A horror movie based on the shocking real-life behavior of crows? | 3