Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down | 164
  2. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA | 301
  3. Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending | 107
  4. How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act? | 89
  5. Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn? | 4
  6. Modern C# book for experienced developers? | 6
  7. Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years? | 32
  8. What are the ethics at YC? | 12
  9. Cloudflare WAF Alternatives? | 14
  10. Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone? | 10
  11. Why is everyone in tech so performative/two faced | 32
  12. Is Cloudflare Down for You? | 12
  13. What fiction books would you recommend for programmers? | 29
  14. Why "all-in-one" productivity tools confuse new users | 16
  15. How does one get involved in FPGA development? | 16
  16. LED Streetlights Are Disrupting Ecosystems – A Systems Failure | 2
  17. Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer | 6
  18. Posted AI book on algorithms–5.3K views, zero sales. What now? | 10
  19. I haven't had to buy a Windows computer in 20 years | 18
  20. Battling Depression | 17
  21. What is the future of SaaS when things are this easy to build? | 9
  22. Anyone writing code from scratch or mostly doing architecting and LLM? | 18
  23. What did onboarding training look like in OS kernel teams? | 2
  24. Which web browser are you using and why? | 17
  25. What is better to use lead-free/leaded solder? | 11
  26. Who else got pwned by the Next.js RCE? | 5
  27. My mom doesn't like cat videos anymore | 3
  28. Why are streaming apps so bad (insiders only)? | 15
  29. Why does every B2B SaaS have to look like Linear/Stripe? | 12
  30. Does anything beat Hetzner Storage Boxes for the price? | 1
  31. Nvidia open sources the synthetic data framework used to build Nemotron datasets | 1
  32. Is Opus 4.5 scaring the crap out of you as well? | 2
  33. Why we dont we have dark mode on Hacker News yet? this is not funny | 15
  34. Do you still think public blockchains/stablecoins are useless/a scam? | 17
  35. What has been your experience with Agentic Coding? | 7
  36. Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays? | 0
  37. Selling one's self | 6
  38. Is it OK to look at AoC solutions? | 11
  39. Any experience using LLMs to license-wash FOSS projects? | 8
  40. Lenovo Support – Hot Garbage | 4
  41. If the US loses, what do you think the world will look like in 15 years? | 19
  42. DeslopifAI – Remove AI Slop | 0
  43. What's your go to for sharing sensitive files with non tech people? | 14
  44. Thoughts of a Neopagan / the Reconstruction of Neolithic Religion | 2
  45. Is Mythical Man-Month still relevant in todays AI Vibe Coding world? | 8
  46. Which domain name registrar do you use? | 8
  47. Who is fundraising? (December 2025) | 2
  48. Do you believe Netflix will be a good steward of Warner Bros? | 5
  49. Are LLMs just expensive search and scripting tools? Is it that simple? | 6
  50. Seeking advice in how to deal with frustration against big corps as dev | 4
  51. How do you do things outside of work? | 4
  52. How do startups protect early inventions without overspending? | 1
  53. Tell HN: iOS 18.7.2 in Lockdown Mode is unable to load many websites | 4
  54. Dark Energy is the thermodynamic cost of encoding information on the horizon | 3
  55. Tell HN: Is Reddit Down? | 7
  56. What's Been Your Experience Implementing Web Accessibility? | 11
  57. What's the "best" way to version your product? | 12
  58. I built NeurIPS '25 visualizer | 0
  59. Constant-Current Design for a 100M Outdoor LED Run | 2
  60. Will Kagi's subscription cost reduce with enough subscribers? | 8
  61. Superfill.ai – Open-source AI extension for intelligent form autofill | 0
  62. Who's figured out using Claude Code via voice on mobile? e.g. on a walk | 0
  63. Did Mark Zuckerberg try to recruit you with soup? | 0
  64. Which post on HN has the most comments? | 3
  65. Tell HN: Neon Inc is billing free users now for $20 subscriptions | 1
  66. How to Convince Andrej Karpathy to join my startup? | 3
  67. Are RGB LED installations contributing to e-waste and energy waste? | 1
  68. Tell HN: Being bullied by an Indian compliance automation platform | 1
  69. We're 15 and 17, used our data science skill to build an AI social media manager | 6
  70. Ruby devs earn more than average devs | 0
  71. A 2,500-year lineage of daemon-like naming conventions, from antiquity to AI | 4
  72. Best place to be a founder outside of the US? | 3
  73. Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops | 0
  74. Why don't GPU/TPU manufacturers commoditize their RAM complement | 11
  75. What Are You Building? | 1
  76. How can a web Senior SWE move into a good game-dev or game-related job? | 10
  77. Anyone considered forming a General Computing political organization? | 3
  78. "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads gone? | 4
  79. How do you get human support from OpenAI? | 0
  80. Have You Automated Cooking? | 6
  81. Font | 4
  82. What's the best book you read in the last year? | 2
  83. Do you think you have your location services on? | 4
  84. Limitless (Rewind) is acquired by Meta | 1
  85. Co-Founder Salary Dispute | 5
  86. Best tricks to make a PWA feel more native? | 4
  87. Is a human brain more like a CPU or an FPGA? | 6
  88. Artificial Womb Technology: Survey of 750 Researchers | 2
  89. It's time to buy short positions for Cloudflare stocks again | 2
  90. Indian cricket team lost 20 consecutive tosses, a probability of 1 in million | 3
  91. How is you and your team are using AI? | 1
  92. How did you get your first paying customers | 2
  93. GraphLite: An open-source embedded graph DB with full ISO GQL support (Rust) | 4
  94. How does one build personal network? | 1
  95. Where Are Nvidia's GPUs? | 8
  96. How do you keep up with AI/crypto/markets without drowning in noise? | 11
  97. Thought Experiment: Measuring the Circumference of the Earth from a Bedroom | 2
  98. Has anyone made money self-publishing tech criticism? | 5
  99. Cloudflare Is Back Onine? | 1
  100. What do you want for Christmas? | 3