Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 409
  2. What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth? | 127
  3. 60 Minutes: Cecot | 10
  4. My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do? | 66
  5. Looking for Decent Conversation? | 13
  6. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 55
  7. What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? | 67
  8. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal | 29
  9. What would you do if you didn't work in tech? | 140
  10. What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors? | 23
  11. Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet? | 57
  12. Why Did Python Win? | 151
  13. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff | 29
  14. What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models | 52
  15. MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit | 37
  16. Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN? | 27
  17. Pivot from SWE to What? | 23
  18. The internet is getting worse every day. How do we fix this? | 30
  19. What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great? | 99
  20. At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer? | 19
  21. What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026? | 19
  22. What do you consider fun? | 11
  23. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 4
  24. Why is human downloading a file called pirating and AI scraping called training | 11
  25. How are most people converting HEIC to jpg? | 47
  26. Why Do You Blog? | 7
  27. Oberon et al., vs. Rust | 30
  28. What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025? | 1
  29. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end | 13
  30. What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026? | 7
  31. The subtle Red of HN and so minimalist and beautiful | 4
  32. What did you lose forever because you had no backup? | 15
  33. Is Stack Overflow Dead? | 27
  34. DNS4EU Blocks Blog.fefe.de | 13
  35. Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs | 5
  36. How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ? | 25
  37. Are you afraid of AI making you unemployable within the next few years? | 49
  38. Why is Hacker News red? Christmas? | 14
  39. Cloudflare has been broken for 15 hours | 13
  40. Can you patent prompts? | 17
  41. AI Code assistants has made completing side projects so easy | 11
  42. SSH Tiny.christmas | 1
  43. Broadcom Changing Licensing to BSL | 4
  44. Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable? | 4
  45. Why isn't everyone talking about (and using) Cerebras? | 0
  46. How many email accounts do you have? | 11
  47. GitHub is returning Gateway Time-outs | 6
  48. Tell HN: Cloudflare Down Again? | 7
  49. Why Do People Prefer YouTube Videos over Big-Budget Movies and TV Shows? | 11
  50. What is the most complex software you've built single handedly? | 2
  51. The offline geocoder we wanted | 2
  52. Do you have an exit plan for Slack? | 6
  53. Resources to get better at outbound sales? | 5
  54. How do you use the "waiting time" while Claude (other LLMs) is working? | 5
  55. Running your own email service? | 4
  56. What would you call a package whose purpose is to import data? | 12
  57. What public Claude Code MCPs, Skills do you have installed and use? | 6
  58. Why do some people feel emotionally attached to AI models | 2
  59. HarmonyOS Open Source Development | 0
  60. LLM Benchmark: Frontier models now statistically indistinguishable | 4
  61. What are the best personal blogs that you're reading? | 2
  62. How would you learn to code in 2026? | 10
  63. Does XML still have any value in creating APIs? | 4
  64. As HN: How do I route around Substack's age verification? | 4
  65. Incorporate in Which Country? | 1
  66. What are some engineering practices you wish would come back? | 2
  67. Firefox restart and tabs = Google says I'm a robot | 2
  68. Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2025 | 4
  69. Ban HN posts with links behind paywalls – YES or NO? | 6
  70. Is formal verification of practical use in real world projects? | 4
  71. Why are we accepting silent data corruption in Vector Search? (x86 vs. ARM) | 7
  72. Is ChatGPT getting buggier over time or is it me? | 1
  73. What happens when AI doesn't need human tools? | 7
  74. Why do small voting or ranking projects get flagged as spam so easily? | 9
  75. Which is the best sync engine? | 3
  76. Good Morning to Those at Work | 1
  77. Tell HN: Math academy and iPad and sleep issues solved = me learning math | 3
  78. Looking for contributors and maintainers for a open source launcher | 0
  79. How will the work of people in the software industry evolve now? | 2
  80. Favourite Blog Posts of 2025 | 0
  81. How do you turn messy notes into something usable? | 2
  82. Books in 2025 | 5
  83. Can we (technically) extract salt from our sweat? | 2
  84. AI That Thinks Like Your Brain: 3x Faster with 92% Less Energy | 3
  85. How to bypass YouTube ad-blocking restrictions? | 12
  86. Built a content system that 6x'd traffic. Turning it into product. Want to test? | 4
  87. What went wrong (and right) while migrating a Qt Widgets app to QML | 2
  88. Anybody here ever write apps for Windows Phone? | 2
  89. What is your dangerous idea? | 3
  90. What are you using to run your AI agents for open source projects? | 1
  91. What is your primary operating system? | 5
  92. A SIMD coding challenge: First non-space character after newline | 7
  93. Are they trying to hack me? | 4
  94. People who wish for the end of developers | 3
  95. If it were to be sold, how much would HN cost? | 16
  96. Cloudflare Stream + Backblaze vs. GCP for Short Form Video? | 9
  97. Vercel for Desktop Apps? | 3
  98. Do you allow vibecoded submissions in your open-source projects? | 12
  99. Is the Standard Model overfitting or am I curve-fitting? | 25
  100. Wish HN: Dark Mode for Xmas (Or 2026) | 5