Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. What are you working on? (January 2026) | 794
  2. Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft? | 84
  3. Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha? | 136
  4. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today | 6
  5. Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline | 32
  6. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update | 39
  7. How would you decouple from the US? | 22
  8. Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work? | 7
  9. Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe | 43
  10. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026 | 24
  11. Is Programming as a Profession Cooked? | 32
  12. Why did ICE deport my coworker? | 8
  13. MIT Non-AI License | 42
  14. Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell | 15
  15. Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code? | 13
  16. What was the best sci-fi book of 2025? | 1
  17. OpenAI API and ChatGPT are down | 1
  18. Google's Universal Commerce Protocol aims to make shopping AI-native | 13
  19. Job seekers, what's working / not working? | 14
  20. YC Cofounder Matching inbox stuck in infinite loading loop – anyone else? | 2
  21. When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you? | 14
  22. My Logitech mouse became unusable, Logi Options+ can't validate certificate | 10
  23. Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform? | 10
  24. Identity crisis as a software engineer because of AI | 1
  25. Is anyone aware of a LinkedIn mirror like xcancel.com for X? | 8
  26. Delve AI Audit Fraud | 2
  27. Why is example.com using Cloudflare | 3
  28. What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly? | 14
  29. Tell HN: Internet Bug Bounty (IBB) on HackerOne Appears Dead, CVEs Unpaid | 2
  30. 50k people were dropped from one AI training project during the holidays | 3
  31. How do you automate your release notes? | 12
  32. Cancelled 2x Cursor Ultra plans, here's why | 6
  33. I've maintained an open source task manager for 8 years | 1
  34. How to search Remote-from-Anywhere jobs | 4
  35. Who's running local AI workstations in 2026? | 8
  36. How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge? | 3
  37. Am I the only one who is nervous? | 2
  38. Amazon gives managers a new way to spot employees not spending time in office | 3
  39. Why isn't AI spawning profitable indie games? | 12
  40. Have AI tools like agents affected your motivation at work? | 2
  41. How to make working in software fun again? | 9
  42. How do small teams make sure recurring tasks don't slip? | 17
  43. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) | 3
  44. Moved to SF to build a startup. What next? | 4
  45. Is anyone having success with Reddit ads? | 9
  46. macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6 | 7
  47. What kind of setup do you run for your children? | 14
  48. Does HN have a bot problem? | 12
  49. Do you trust Sam Altman? | 4
  50. Who are the companies that still use Perl in their back end? | 10
  51. Tell HN: X changed its Iran flag emoji | 1
  52. Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls? | 1
  53. Where is legacy codebase maintenance headed? | 4
  54. Tell HN: I have no interest in being tracked | 11
  55. Apple App Store Denial Because of Apple Pay | 4
  56. Working on decentralized compute at io.net sharing what we're learning | 3
  57. What frustrates you most about personal finance apps? | 2
  58. ScreenSense – OS Screen Rcorder Focused on Indviduals and Small Teams | 2
  59. Cheaper Datadog anyone? | 10
  60. Anyone else feels that their job quality has declined severely recently? | 5
  61. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM | 0
  62. What Happened to Coding Competions? | 1
  63. What will you pick as your database of 2026 Yugabyte, TiDB or SurrealDB? | 3
  64. Iran has now been offline for 100 hours. What can we "technically" do? | 12
  65. Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS? | 5
  66. What happens to an economy when AI makes most human labor optional | 1
  67. What business processes still waste time every week? | 8
  68. Why are so many images now in unusual file formats? | 7
  69. What are you building on the side in 2026? | 1
  70. "Too many people in HN work in Google or Apple–that itself is immoral." | 4
  71. What useful skills can be learned through rote memorization? | 3
  72. Thoughts on a causality-first programming language in Rust? | 1
  73. Phind Is Shutting Down | 2
  74. Is There a HN for Game Devs? | 2
  75. Tell HN: Auto-download in Apple Podcasts is so unreliable it's basically useless | 4
  76. Anyone in Hangzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai area wants to meet up? | 0
  77. I want to know how everyone solves the problem of lacking creativity? | 7
  78. ProjectCLI: The Swiss Army Knife CLI for bootstrapping any project | 0
  79. Why has "using" gone out of fashion? | 6
  80. New Year 2026: Fusion Updates from Helion and Commonwealth Fusion | 1
  81. Where is book industry heading to, with all this AI? | 3
  82. Why does macOS still lack focus stealing prevention in 2025? | 7
  83. How much time do you waste trying to run a new GitHub repo? | 3
  84. Claude Code changes it's privacy settings and policy | 0
  85. Small things that will make 3x better at vibe coding | 1
  86. Erratic HN front page algorithm | 2
  87. Valori – Deterministic Substrate for AI (Code and ArXiv Paper) | 1
  88. Has macOS Tahoe been fixed enough to update to? | 5
  89. Why does job search feel so unclear even for strong candidates? | 14
  90. What's it like working at early-stage YC startups? | 4
  91. Tell HN: Mattermost "upgrade" to v11 enforces 10k UI message limit | 3
  92. Anyone else seeing porn images in YouTube ad preview images? | 7
  93. What are your small comforts? | 6
  94. Do You Regret Doing Open-Source Work for Free? | 9
  95. What happened to self-hosted models? | 13
  96. I Build an Idea I Love. I Need You to Tear It Apart | 9
  97. We built an air-gapped document vault with encrypted print and export | 11
  98. Should I shutdown my 20 year old SaaS sideline? | 9
  99. What's your preferred digital payment method? | 22
  100. Tailwind Labs fired engineers while making –$1M from sponsors | 9