Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? | 460
  2. How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act? | 89
  3. Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years? | 38
  4. What are you buying your kids for Christmas? | 40
  5. AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target | 22
  6. How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work? | 32
  7. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE? | 12
  8. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 50
  9. Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer | 11
  10. Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful) | 5
  11. End of Year Book Recommendations | 8
  12. What are young technically minded people reading? | 27
  13. Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone? | 6
  14. Is GitHub Down? | 7
  15. Why "all-in-one" productivity tools confuse new users | 16
  16. What hard problems are still underexplored? | 22
  17. Is it still worth learning a new programming language? | 17
  18. Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays? | 8
  19. Posted AI book on algorithms–5.3K views, zero sales. What now? | 10
  20. Who else got pwned by the Next.js RCE? | 5
  21. Why can't we discuss Israel on HN? | 16
  22. Better places to work for burntout SWE? | 10
  23. Why does every B2B SaaS have to look like Linear/Stripe? | 15
  24. Go all-in on AI Boom vs. enjoy parenthood? | 15
  25. A tiny entropy experiment to push LLMs into unexpected paths | 2
  26. Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month? | 0
  27. What's Next? Clippy Copilot? | 5
  28. Is Opus 4.5 scaring the crap out of you as well? | 2
  29. If the US loses, what do you think the world will look like in 15 years? | 19
  30. Is any of you using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps? | 7
  31. Practical Tips for Gemini 3 | 1
  32. There's a Database of Startup Ideas Here | 0
  33. What's your go to for sharing sensitive files with non tech people? | 14
  34. I spent $1000 on Google Ads and here's what I learnt | 4
  35. Console.text() – SMS alerts when code executes | 9
  36. Thoughts of a Neopagan / the Reconstruction of Neolithic Religion | 2
  37. Is Mythical Man-Month still relevant in todays AI Vibe Coding world? | 8
  38. What's the "best" way to version your product? | 15
  39. 2026: The Year the IDE Died (Steve Yegge and Gene Kim Talk AI Coding) | 9
  40. How do small businesses handle phone calls? | 4
  41. Which domain name registrar do you use? | 9
  42. Do you believe Netflix will be a good steward of Warner Bros? | 5
  43. Startupideasdb,com is where I got my dream AI Tech Startup Idea. You can Google | 0
  44. Tell HN: iOS 18.7.2 in Lockdown Mode is unable to load many websites | 4
  45. I built an AI web-scraper that bypasses captchas and login pages | 2
  46. ArXiv Endorsement as Independent Researcher | 6
  47. Veteran-built iPhone steadiness tracker to help people avoid falls | 4
  48. What's Been Your Experience Implementing Web Accessibility? | 11
  49. DuckDuckGo Icons Easter Egg | 0
  50. I would love to get some feedback from data-obsessed climbers (Expo/RN app) | 0
  51. What is your go-to breakfast? | 6
  52. What was the most humble living situation you had in your early days? | 3
  53. How difficult will resuming a SWE career be after a sabbatical? | 2
  54. Anyone else doing login-free trials with localStorage tokens? | 0
  55. DNS | 7
  56. What do you do about real art/work being called "AI Slop?" | 1
  57. How can I learn smartphone repair online? | 4
  58. Why are people using Claude or ChatGPT when Gemini is free? | 7
  59. Can someone explain why OpenAI credits expire? | 8
  60. Ruby devs earn more than average devs | 0
  61. Best place to be a founder outside of the US? | 3
  62. Why don't GPU/TPU manufacturers commoditize their RAM complement | 11
  63. How can I delete a Substack account in Australia? | 1
  64. The Day We Realized Who Colonizes the Galaxy | 0
  65. How do you get human support from OpenAI? | 0
  66. I built an AI that learns code transformations from examples (not generative) | 0
  67. Pointless thing you've read that gratified your intellectual curiosity? | 0
  68. What if AI was used to distribute work instead of doing the work? | 0
  69. What's the best book you read in the last year? | 2
  70. When is the last time you wished the docs were in a single file? | 1
  71. Is there a "good" (non-privacy horror) aftermarket HUD for your car? | 2
  72. Anyone Else Noticed This? | 3
  73. New swe engineer at a scale-up, low quality of projects | 0
  74. Co-Founder Salary Dispute | 5
  75. GCP account got compromised and ran million dollar bill | 2
  76. What does it take to dodge the cloud? | 7
  77. Best tricks to make a PWA feel more native? | 4
  78. Is a human brain more like a CPU or an FPGA? | 6
  79. Has anyone automated social listening for Reddit/LinkedIn/ with decent accuracy? | 3
  80. Is there any value from "coming soon" placeholders? | 5
  81. Native Parallel Reasoner: Self-Evolving to Learn Parallel Reasoning | 0
  82. Accelerating Spark Queries | 0
  83. Ask HNIs early-stage fundraising broken,or founders just pitching the wrong way? | 0
  84. December 2025: Claude Code vs. Opencode vs. Codex vs. Gemini CLI | 2
  85. Privacy-first budgeting tool – all data stays in localStorage, works offline | 0
  86. Artificial Womb Technology: Survey of 750 Researchers | 2
  87. Friendly reminder: NPM classic tokens will be revoked today | 0
  88. Founders How do you keep your business strategy,tech stack aligned as you scale? | 0
  89. Does professional coding make you forget the "magic" feeling? | 0
  90. Relatively SoTA LLM Agents from Scratch? | 3
  91. Developer career path: frontend or backend? | 0
  92. Revolutionizing Lighting: How Smart LEDs Are Transforming Homes and Businesses | 0
  93. Referral to coach for fundraising for pre-revenue seed capital? | 1
  94. Can I get around an assumed shadowban from Stripe? | 0
  95. How does one build personal network? | 1
  96. Where Are Nvidia's GPUs? | 8
  97. Tell HN: GitHub listened and removed the AI summary feature | 0
  98. Are you building internal Lovable/v0-like tools for your PMs/etc.? | 0
  99. EU Healthcare Startups Cannot Legally Use OpenAI API Despite Saying They Can | 0
  100. GitHub UI Unresponsive | 0