Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Share your personal website | 2377
  2. How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? | 1236
  3. How are you doing RAG locally? | 158
  4. What did you find out or explore today? | 433
  5. Is it still worth pursuing a software startup? | 227
  6. Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? | 166
  7. COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work? | 182
  8. Weird archive.today behavior? | 69
  9. Anthropic disabled my account after payment cancer patient/medical data trapped | 20
  10. What are your best purchases under $100? | 247
  11. How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access? | 106
  12. Burned out from tech, what else is there? | 87
  13. Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant | 70
  14. What is the best way to provide continuous context to models? | 43
  15. One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website | 26
  16. For me, Hacker News is probably the best community on the internet | 40
  17. Claude Opus performance affected by time of day? | 39
  18. Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization | 9
  19. Tell HN: Use news.ycombinator.com/active | 29
  20. How to make my website exist for 100 years? | 72
  21. Anyone else finding it impossible to land a job? | 23
  22. Does Hacker News pull posts about Greenland from the front page? | 28
  23. Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers? | 9
  24. Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables | 20
  25. How to bullet proof yourself from AI? | 23
  26. Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters? | 49
  27. GitHub Is Down | 16
  28. Tell HN: Execution is cheap, ideas matter again | 10
  29. AI music covers in 2026? | 9
  30. Is Linux Safe to Daily drive in 2026? | 30
  31. Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife | 18
  32. Tell HN: The way I do simple data management for new prototypes | 8
  33. Trying to find a website featured on HN that listed restaurants in NYC | 1
  34. How to make spamming us uncomfortable for LinkedIn and friends? | 8
  35. How do you keep system context from rotting over time? | 14
  36. Those who quit tech, moved back home, what do you do? | 6
  37. Which common map projections make Greenland look smaller? | 12
  38. Revive a mostly dead Discord server | 10
  39. What to teach my kid if AI does math and CS? | 22
  40. Did past "bubbles" have so many people claiming we were in a bubble? | 16
  41. How have you or your firm made money with LLMs? | 11
  42. What non-fiction do you read? | 14
  43. How to get a job after a career break? | 4
  44. How do you realistically prepare for retirement while working in tech? | 22
  45. Tell HN: I Downgraded from macOS Tahoe to Sequoia | 6
  46. Is your email inbox also filled with Zendesk reply spam? | 6
  47. What are the recommender systems papers from 2024-2025? | 1
  48. Tell HN: YouTube disabled advanced subtitling, and is stripping it from old vids | 0
  49. Thoughts on maintaining anonymity against state-level actors? | 3
  50. Do you think college is/was worth it? | 17
  51. Ericsson Doing Quiet Layoffs | 0
  52. How worried should I be about running LLM code on my machine? | 4
  53. Why do AI code editors suck at closing tags? | 5
  54. Clipboard overflows causing system crashes in macOS Tahoe 26.3 beta 2? | 2
  55. What is your opinion on workplace review websites like Glassdoor? | 2
  56. YC Events | 1
  57. How many local logins do you have on your computer? | 15
  58. Where to find VC fund or investor for project in Europe? | 5
  59. How can we combat fascism? | 4
  60. Tell HN: Poshmark instantly leaked my email to scammers | 8
  61. How can you instantly tell something was written by AI? | 10
  62. Is replacing an enterprise product with LLMs a realistic strategy? | 6
  63. Why did forum culture die? | 5
  64. Who's using DuckDB in production? | 4
  65. Best setup for Golang HTTP API development in 2026? | 1
  66. Strangest or most unexpected behavior you've seen from GitHub Copilot? | 3
  67. Tell HN: A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer | 6
  68. At the phase 'build a startup cause I can't get hired, and maybe I'll get hired' | 1
  69. Any real prompt injections in the wild? | 3
  70. Any evidence AI coding assistants are helping open source projects? | 0
  71. Are diffs still useful for AI-assisted code changes? | 17
  72. Claude is down – Jan 14th 2026 | 0
  73. Estimating % of dev using coding assistants | 7
  74. When has humanities/history knowledge helped you in tech? | 7
  75. Why is Google tolerating impersonation of Gmail from it's own domain? | 1
  76. Why is opening a new window in OS26 Safari so slow this week? | 0
  77. Do many people know that Grand Theft Auto is Commodore's biggest legacy? | 0
  78. Where are the primary sources? | 0
  79. Browser extension vs. native app for structured form filling? | 5
  80. Can companies claim copyright over their LLM-generated codebases? | 5
  81. What's an API that you wish existed? | 8
  82. How to introduce Claude Code to a team? | 3
  83. Is Codex login down for all workspace (non-personal) users? | 2
  84. Why are so many rolling out their own AI/LLM agent sandboxing solution? | 6
  85. Text-to-3D → Step/STL | 0
  86. Will vibe coded spaghetti code lead to unmaintainable software? | 4
  87. How long do you think? I give it 3 years | 6
  88. Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell | 0
  89. Resources for learning visual design as a developer? | 2
  90. Tell HN: Google Trust and Safety is a joke | 2
  91. HN should be dark mode by default | 5
  92. Books to Learn Ruby/Rails? | 5
  93. "Freedom of Speech" Exists – But "Freedom of Reach" Is a Black Box | 3
  94. Are you “addicted” to coding with AI? | 3
  95. What makes someone hate their job? | 15
  96. Should you combine your personal website and blog or keep them separate? | 1
  97. Can I still code by hand? | 3
  98. Local models to support home network infrastructure? | 3
  99. Treating anxiety as a bug in legacy code (engineering approach) | 5
  100. AI Californication | 1