Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 427
  2. What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth? | 136
  3. What did you read in 2025? | 419
  4. What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? | 399
  5. 60 Minutes: Cecot | 10
  6. My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do? | 66
  7. Looking for Decent Conversation? | 16
  8. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 57
  9. Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results | 79
  10. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal | 29
  11. What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors? | 28
  12. What would you do if you didn't work in tech? | 141
  13. Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet? | 59
  14. Why Did Python Win? | 154
  15. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff | 33
  16. Pivot from SWE to What? | 41
  17. The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before | 10
  18. What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great? | 146
  19. MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit | 38
  20. How are you sandboxing coding agents? | 29
  21. Anti-AI Open Source License? | 97
  22. Best Podcasts of 2025? | 63
  23. Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN? | 27
  24. By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer? | 89
  25. At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer? | 24
  26. Loneliness at 19, How to Cope? | 43
  27. 2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up | 23
  28. What do you consider fun? | 19
  29. What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025? | 2
  30. What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting | 6
  31. Why Do You Blog? | 13
  32. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point | 31
  33. How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ? | 36
  34. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end | 13
  35. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 4
  36. Oberon et al., vs. Rust | 30
  37. What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026? | 7
  38. The subtle Red of HN and so minimalist and beautiful | 4
  39. What did you lose forever because you had no backup? | 15
  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. If you only needed 200 customers at$49, how would you approach it? | 9
  46. GitHub is returning Gateway Time-outs | 6
  47. What was the hardest bug you tracked down in 2025? | 4
  48. People who tried both, how does Waymo compare to Tesla Robotaxi? | 3
  49. Bloat in software is getting WAAAY out of hand | 8
  50. Postgres for everything, does it work? | 5
  51. Do you have an exit plan for Slack? | 6
  52. What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026? | 2
  53. How do you use the "waiting time" while Claude (other LLMs) is working? | 5
  54. Books in 2025 | 5
  55. As HN: How do I route around Substack's age verification? | 5
  56. Why do some people feel emotionally attached to AI models | 2
  57. HarmonyOS Open Source Development | 0
  58. Is the windows11 mandate to upgrade hardware akin to older corp's toxic messes? | 4
  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. Does XML still have any value in creating APIs? | 4
  62. Is Dart a particularly optimised language for front-end development? | 9
  63. HN Blocks Sites Like Fox News? | 20
  64. What are some engineering practices you wish would come back? | 2
  65. How do you turn messy notes into something usable? | 2
  66. How do you get visibility if you're suuuuper bad at marketing? | 10
  67. Ban HN posts with links behind paywalls – YES or NO? | 6
  68. Does the Nvidia "Revenue Sharing Agreement" Tie the US Gov't Hands? | 1
  69. Is formal verification of practical use in real world projects? | 4
  70. Would anyone pay for a social network with no ads or data harvesting? | 21
  71. Why are we accepting silent data corruption in Vector Search? (x86 vs. ARM) | 9
  72. What happens when AI doesn't need human tools? | 7
  73. How to go back to listening to MP3s? | 10
  74. Which is the best sync engine? | 3
  75. Good Morning to Those at Work | 1
  76. What are you building during the holiday break? | 10
  77. Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind | 5
  78. Tell HN: Math academy and iPad and sleep issues solved = me learning math | 5
  79. How will the work of people in the software industry evolve now? | 2
  80. Favourite Blog Posts of 2025 | 0
  81. AI That Thinks Like Your Brain: 3x Faster with 92% Less Energy | 3
  82. What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? | 0
  83. Did any projects succeed with crowdfunding? | 1
  84. Any others here constantly reminded of Vonnegut's Player Piano lately? | 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. Best Ways to Save on Taxes? | 3
  89. What is your primary operating system? | 5
  90. Tell HN: I switched my iPhone to black and white and it's nice | 2
  91. Does Confluence still suck today? | 4
  92. Book recommendations based on reading history | 5
  93. A SIMD coding challenge: First non-space character after newline | 11
  94. Are they trying to hack me? | 4
  95. I built a SaaS that nobody asked for, now what? | 6
  96. People who wish for the end of developers | 3
  97. Why do so many "agentic AI" systems collapse without persistent state? | 4
  98. Cloudflare Stream + Backblaze vs. GCP for Short Form Video? | 9
  99. Is the Standard Model overfitting or am I curve-fitting? | 27
  100. Payload in Amazon "Shipped" Emails | 3