Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Share your AI prompt that stumps every model | 625
  2. What are you working on? (April 2025) | 926
  3. My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do? | 116
  4. CS degrees, do they matter again? | 200
  5. Memory-safe low level languages? | 108
  6. Has anyone else found Google's AI overview to be oddly error prone? | 39
  7. Did someone dig into the JFK files? | 18
  8. I am at a loss. What shall I do? | 23
  9. Where are people sharing their blogs these days? | 24
  10. Are you finding it harder to enter the US in the last couple of months? | 19
  11. I want to work for an entrepreneur who has awakened spiritually | 18
  12. Why do we celebrate AI-Copilots but reject AI–Generated art? | 66
  13. Could we possibly be the last generation of programmers? | 19
  14. Cheapest way to host a back end | 35
  15. What Is a Skill You're Glad You Learnt Outside of Work? | 18
  16. Frustrated at Young Programmers | 15
  17. What If Hacker News Was a Spreadsheet? | 1
  18. Can vibe coding competitions be challenging and fair? | 10
  19. Not worried about AI taking our jobs; worried it won't take our current jobs | 18
  20. Best audiobooks you've listened to recently? (Cosmic horror/non-fiction) | 12
  21. Is Basecamp Good? | 12
  22. Privacy folks – what's your take on using LLMs at work? | 20
  23. How do you get into systems programming | 3
  24. What Programming Skills Will Still Matter in 10 Years? | 21
  25. AI agent creation using screen recording and MCPs | 0
  26. The EdTech Chicken and Egg Problem | 8
  27. What Tools Did You Build for Yourself? | 5
  28. Sold my company, parents passed away – feeling lost. What now? | 12
  29. VC Funds Struggling | 15
  30. Thoughts on an AI agent that must make money to stay alive? | 17
  31. Has anyone else noticed a recent sentiment shift on HN? | 19
  32. Major Concern – Google Gemini 2.5 Research Preview | 1
  33. Is Apple's Self-Repair Program Real? | 4
  34. What is the most paranormal/supernatural thing you believe? | 6
  35. Why so many companies reducing middle management recently? | 13
  36. Open Sourcing our Startup – AI-powered avatars (UE 5.2) | 1
  37. Low Effort but Useful Activities | 17
  38. Where Is PragmaticPulp? | 0
  39. Is Apple's Self-Repair Program Real? | 0
  40. Why a Indian Satoshi Makes More Sense Than You Think | 5
  41. Is politeness towards LLMs good training data, or just expensive noise? | 13
  42. Vibe Coding: The Infrastructure Problem | 3
  43. Where to Find First Users? | 15
  44. Three tools convert APIs to MCP | 1
  45. Can't publish on the Play Store without a physical office? | 10
  46. Which IT certifications have the highest failure rate and why? | 8
  47. What are you building with the new OpenAI image-gen API? | 7
  48. Is there a decent configuration format? | 1
  49. How do you manage multiple Git profiles (GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket)? | 5
  50. Favourite Pen | 7
  51. What if planned obsolescence was made illegal? | 5
  52. Why does OpenAI require an ID to use their image API? | 3
  53. GPT Code Viewer – Collaborate with ChatGPT on local code (no API keys) | 2
  54. If AI is intelligent, why do we still need programming? | 4
  55. Which LLM to consult about LLM's? | 5
  56. Should I open source or not? | 19
  57. Data Partitioning in Apache Iceberg, demo time | 2
  58. Pivotal Tracker EOL; Emigrant Stories? | 1
  59. Looking for Feedback for Hardware Server Security | 9
  60. Software is rapidly being commoditized | 4
  61. What is going on with cloudflare? | 0
  62. What tools are you using to manage a shared enterprise prompt library? | 0
  63. Google Gemini knows your location | 2
  64. What are some life principles/theories/frameworks/hacks you live by? | 2
  65. Do you use glasses to protect your eyes from the screen reflection? | 5
  66. AI Paying with Bitcoin and Lightning – A Working Demo | 1
  67. Tell HN: Llama on WhatsApp will never delete your messages | 1
  68. One Ingredient for Better Health? | 16
  69. Trump's return affecting freelance work? | 1
  70. OpenAI models vs. Gemini 2.5 Pro for coding and swe | 5
  71. Do Not Train" Meta Tags: The Robots.txt of AI – Will Anyone Respect Them? | 7
  72. How do you get traffic for your pre-product launches? | 0
  73. What Have You Replaced with AI? | 4
  74. What tiny LLMs are you getting the best results from? | 1
  75. Anyone scaling ArgoCD across multiple clusters? | 2
  76. Why are there many startups founded by ex 8200 units (Israel)? | 2
  77. Stopping Gmail-Originated Spam? | 0
  78. What happened to MMORPGs and internet cafes? | 3
  79. Engineers and Academics: are you worried about entering the US? | 3
  80. Looking for a past post about heart cell excitation | 2
  81. Building qApp: a minimal queue management platform | 2
  82. Reddit Alternative? | 9
  83. Why are startups suddenly branding themselves the "OS" for [thing]? | 4
  84. How Do You Write? | 4
  85. Is the Surge of AI-Gen Tools by Inexperienced Developers Worrying You? | 2
  86. Why can't devs make collaboration apps that are client native? | 5
  87. Bitcoin mining as an alternative to ad revenue | 20
  88. How do you retain both technical and domain knowledge long-term? | 2
  89. People trust legal advice generated by ChatGPT more than a lawyer | 4
  90. When open science is open but not for everyone | 1
  91. How to get an initial user base for a consumer app with no money and no audience | 1
  92. Where does your development time go? | 5
  93. What are you currently trying to figure out? | 10
  94. Captcha idea: Ask visitors which direction a optical illusion is "moving" | 4
  95. What non-existent app or tool would you pay for right now? | 6
  96. How is it possible that HN is free of SPAM? | 5
  97. How to find a job as Java software developer in USA? | 4
  98. What's Everyone Using These Days for a Desktop Chat App? | 8
  99. How to incentivize my Eng team to update tasks after daily standups? | 13
  100. How to track inputs from other people | 7