Ask HN ranking for the past week

What are you working on? (January 2026) | 838
The $LANG Programming Language | 28
Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today | 6
Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha? | 136
Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update | 46
Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient? | 67
ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas? | 79
Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline | 32
Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan? | 58
How would you decouple from the US? | 22
Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work? | 10
Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe | 44
Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026 | 24
Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming | 22
If you had $10M in the bank, would you still show up to your job? | 79
Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind | 31
Is Programming as a Profession Cooked? | 32
Why did ICE deport my coworker? | 8
Job seekers, what's working / not working? | 19
Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish | 11
500 citation MSc CS, stuck in a low-trust region. How to move forward? | 12
MIT Non-AI License | 42
Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down | 10
Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code? | 13
What was the best sci-fi book of 2025? | 1
Google's Universal Commerce Protocol aims to make shopping AI-native | 13
OpenAI API and ChatGPT are down | 1
X Is Down | 4
YC Cofounder Matching inbox stuck in infinite loading loop – anyone else? | 3
When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you? | 15
My Logitech mouse became unusable, Logi Options+ can't validate certificate | 10
What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly? | 16
Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform? | 10
Identity crisis as a software engineer because of AI | 1
Is "AI vibe coding" making prototyping worse inside real companies? | 4
Is anyone aware of a LinkedIn mirror like xcancel.com for X? | 8
Delve AI Audit Fraud | 2
Where is all the protest music? | 14
Why is example.com using Cloudflare | 3
Gh Account Permabanned – Help? | 9
50k people were dropped from one AI training project during the holidays | 3
How do you automate your release notes? | 15
Cancelled 2x Cursor Ultra plans, here's why | 7
I've maintained an open source task manager for 8 years | 1
How to search Remote-from-Anywhere jobs | 4
Who's running local AI workstations in 2026? | 8
How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge? | 3
Am I the only one who is nervous? | 2
Amazon gives managers a new way to spot employees not spending time in office | 3
Why isn't AI spawning profitable indie games? | 12
Have AI tools like agents affected your motivation at work? | 2
How to make working in software fun again? | 9
Iran has now been offline for 100 hours. What can we "technically" do? | 13
Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) | 3
Moved to SF to build a startup. What next? | 4
macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6 | 7
Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine | 0
Does HN have a bot problem? | 12
Cursor vs. antigravity after a week of real use | 0
Do you trust Sam Altman? | 4
Cheaper Datadog anyone? | 11
Who are the companies that still use Perl in their back end? | 10
Phind Is Shutting Down | 3
Tell HN: X changed its Iran flag emoji | 1
Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls? | 1
Where is legacy codebase maintenance headed? | 4
Tell HN: I have no interest in being tracked | 11
Erratic HN front page algorithm | 4
Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption? | 1
Working on decentralized compute at io.net sharing what we're learning | 3
What frustrates you most about personal finance apps? | 2
Does anyone else think that humanoid robots is a bubble? | 8
Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption? | 0
Anyone else feels that their job quality has declined severely recently? | 5
Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM | 0
What Happened to Coding Competions? | 1
What will you pick as your database of 2026 Yugabyte, TiDB or SurrealDB? | 3
Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS? | 5
Reddit Is Down | 1
What happens to an economy when AI makes most human labor optional | 1
What business processes still waste time every week? | 9
Why are so many images now in unusual file formats? | 7
(IPv6 shutdown in Iran) Jack Dorsey saw this coming | 0
What are you building on the side in 2026? | 1
"Too many people in HN work in Google or Apple–that itself is immoral." | 4
Tell HN: Mattermost "upgrade" to v11 enforces 10k UI message limit | 3
What made you move back to HTML-to-PDF in production? | 4
What useful skills can be learned through rote memorization? | 3
Tell HN: Auto-download in Apple Podcasts is so unreliable it's basically useless | 4
Why has "using" gone out of fashion? | 6
New Year 2026: Fusion Updates from Helion and Commonwealth Fusion | 1
Where is book industry heading to, with all this AI? | 3
Why does macOS still lack focus stealing prevention in 2025? | 7
How much time do you waste trying to run a new GitHub repo? | 3
Valori – Deterministic Substrate for AI (Code and ArXiv Paper) | 1
Has macOS Tahoe been fixed enough to update to? | 5
Why does job search feel so unclear even for strong candidates? | 14
Tell HN: Viral Hit Made by AI, 10M listens on Spotify last few days | 4
What's it like working at early-stage YC startups? | 4
Anyone else seeing porn images in YouTube ad preview images? | 7