Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) | 1260
  2. My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else? | 307
  3. How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer? | 291
  4. How do you get over the fear of sharing code? | 90
  5. Senior people, how did your career evolve? | 42
  6. We got a $60k tax penalty for a zero-revenue side project | 17
  7. Why does OpenAI need a federal backstop if it is going to be profitable | 13
  8. How much time do you spend reading books? | 25
  9. VC-funded startup lurking in my community Slack – how to respond? | 15
  10. Effective way to deal with mosquitoes? | 17
  11. Is Slack Down? | 9
  12. Why do designers have repugnant websites? | 10
  13. The amount of fear in bullish investors and bubble companies is unreal | 19
  14. What is the most important thing in life? | 30
  15. Where did the tech people on Twitter go? | 21
  16. Why has typing on a phone not improved in ~20 years? | 17
  17. What games let you simulate running a startup? | 11
  18. What's a Purchase You Regret? | 40
  19. Archive.today Down? | 6
  20. Why doesn't USPS act as a payment processor? | 8
  21. Is everyone only hiring senior developers? And is it because of AI? | 3
  22. Windows/Linux software that has no real equivalent on macOS? | 21
  23. A service for dating through escape rooms with strangers? | 12
  24. Valori – A Python-native Vector Database I built from scratch | 11
  25. An Elegy for Jetbrains | 11
  26. My university wants all my IP (PhD Student) is there anything I can do? | 32
  27. Bubble needs to be destroyed before it destroys the country | 12
  28. Anyone Using Gleam in Production? | 3
  29. Slow moving UX disaster: Passkeys are now required | 3
  30. Google, the worst search engine to ever exist in all universes for all time | 5
  31. Reuters.com no longer works with JavaScript disabled | 8
  32. Y'all See the Astroturfing, Right? | 7
  33. Is there open source alternative for VAPI or retellai? | 5
  34. YouTube A/B testing removing playback speed controls | 8
  35. Do you know how much I hate the AI bubble? | 3
  36. Do you let your kids use ChatGPT? | 10
  37. Why not combine dating with board game design and testing? | 2
  38. Stories | 4
  39. How do you deal with eye strain as a developer? | 9
  40. Meta's Broken API: How Facebook Is Killing Small Developer Innovation | 6
  41. The State of NH Is Now 'Powered by Gemini' API | 0
  42. We built a internal tool that Claude refused to help us with | 6
  43. P2P Archive.is Alternative? | 1
  44. Open-source MCP Security scanner | 1
  45. Supply Chain Alert: Sipeed's Official COMTools Software Flagged as Trojan | 2
  46. LLMs let me maintain my PostgreSQL extension for PRQL after becoming a parent | 0
  47. Any actual AI projects in production at bigcorp? | 6
  48. World Agent Web – Protocols for AI agents to discover and use web services | 2
  49. Beta testers for a free AI crawler analytics dashboard | 1
  50. Should there be a monthly Who is NOT hiring post | 3
  51. Do businesses want to leave the cloud and return to installable apps? | 3
  52. Recommend Postman Alternative | 5
  53. Why is there a stigma around working in defense-related tech? | 14
  54. Claude Is Down | 5
  55. Is AI code assistance fundamentally unenforceable without hooks? | 2
  56. Mac App Store worth it for a $0.99 app? | 4
  57. Do you use an old or 'unfashionable' programming language? | 3
  58. How to grow and become more employable when working with outdated tech? | 7
  59. Should we have a mute button? | 1
  60. Building Privacy-Compliant LLM Apps (e.g. Section 203 StGB) | 1
  61. Do you get bots signing up random email addresses to your newsletter? | 2
  62. The Drift Principle: why systems get worse even when they're "working" | 5
  63. Does Google bury relevant results 3 pages deep? | 2
  64. When the Firefighter Looks Like the Arsonist: AI Safety Needs IRL Accountability | 0
  65. Do we understand how neat LLMs are? | 1
  66. Most Data Breach Checking websites only scan Emails | 1
  67. How do you know if a job is likely to be a ghost job? | 2
  68. Is anybody having issues with Claude.ai Sonnet now? | 5
  69. Ask HN | 2
  70. Spam filtering app (get paid for spam) | 0
  71. Top Developer Articles of the Week for November on CoderLegion | 0
  72. Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York | 1
  73. What is the best way to find gaps in market to fill? | 0
  74. Managers of HN, how do you track IC progress | 4
  75. Tell HN: Amazon intentionally keeps your money for as long as possible | 3
  76. How hard will it be to find a job (dev) in 5 years from now? | 6
  77. How to find something to work on for myself? | 2
  78. Shader systems are ridiculously powerful if you're clever enough | 0
  79. Fashaion Tryon Tool for Fashion Brands | 0
  80. How do you feel about the increasing amount of AI comments on HN? | 10
  81. Startups should brag less and ship more (guilty as charged) | 9
  82. Has DuckDuckGo ever had it's own index? | 2
  83. What Would Make You Stick with a Fitness App? | 5
  84. Help with AI Fatigue | 2
  85. Have people started to see cracks in the ChatGPT answers with time | 11
  86. Is it possible to get a Jr. developer job in Elixir? | 3
  87. Zig is so cool, C is cooler, but JavaScript everywhere | 0
  88. What Are You Reading? | 7
  89. What's the one onboarding "hook" that made you try a new tool? | 5
  90. When ChatGPT Deleted Evidence of Its Own Mistake | 8
  91. There is an animal level of fear in investors | 3
  92. Should browsers natively support React-like UI patterns? | 1
  93. GitLab – do you host one? Or use the cloud? | 2
  94. Can we talk about Google Search et al.'s planned obsolescence? | 1
  95. What's the Latest in Home Networking? | 2
  96. How does AI understand what I write? | 6
  97. How do you track errors privately without self-hosting? | 7
  98. Seeking feedback: Integrated product discovery workflow tool | 4
  99. CRM/ERP – Free Open Source | 3
  100. The truth about superintelligent models: humanity has less life left than you | 3