Ask HN ranking for the past week

Who is hiring? (December 2025) | 488
Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down | 164
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA | 297
Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending | 104
Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) | 409
Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago? | 202
How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act? | 87
Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn? | 4
Modern C# book for experienced developers? | 5
Cloudflare WAF Alternatives? | 14
What are the ethics at YC? | 12
Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years? | 24
Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone? | 10
Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth? | 80
Why is everyone in tech so performative/two faced | 32
Is Cloudflare Down for You? | 12
What are you working on? (Dec 2025) | 27
What fiction books would you recommend for programmers? | 29
Why "all-in-one" productivity tools confuse new users | 16
How do you handle lost webhooks in production? | 11
How does one get involved in FPGA development? | 16
LED Streetlights Are Disrupting Ecosystems – A Systems Failure | 2
I haven't had to buy a Windows computer in 20 years | 18
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2025) | 33
Posted AI book on algorithms–5.3K views, zero sales. What now? | 9
Battling Depression | 17
What is the future of SaaS when things are this easy to build? | 9
Anyone writing code from scratch or mostly doing architecting and LLM? | 18
What did onboarding training look like in OS kernel teams? | 2
Which web browser are you using and why? | 17
What is better to use lead-free/leaded solder? | 11
Recruiters, does contractor vs. FTE matter? | 3
My mom doesn't like cat videos anymore | 3
Who else got pwned by the Next.js RCE? | 2
Why are streaming apps so bad (insiders only)? | 15
Looking for "invisible" OSS projects to donate to for Cybermonday | 1
Nvidia open sources the synthetic data framework used to build Nemotron datasets | 1
Is Opus 4.5 scaring the crap out of you as well? | 2
Why we dont we have dark mode on Hacker News yet? this is not funny | 15
Do you still think public blockchains/stablecoins are useless/a scam? | 17
What has been your experience with Agentic Coding? | 7
Why does every B2B SaaS have to look like Linear/Stripe? | 11
Selling one's self | 6
Is it OK to look at AoC solutions? | 11
Does anything beat Hetzner Storage Boxes for the price? | 1
Any experience using LLMs to license-wash FOSS projects? | 8
Lenovo Support – Hot Garbage | 4
If the US loses, what do you think the world will look like in 15 years? | 19
DeslopifAI – Remove AI Slop | 0
What are you working on? (Dec 2025) | 3
Is Mythical Man-Month still relevant in todays AI Vibe Coding world? | 8
Others seeing agents do remarkable things when given their own logs? | 2
Is GitHub currently leaking private issues and pull requests? | 0
Who is fundraising? (December 2025) | 2
Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer | 2
Do you believe Netflix will be a good steward of Warner Bros? | 5
Are LLMs just expensive search and scripting tools? Is it that simple? | 6
Did I do a 5 year BS to become an algo whore? | 0
What's your go to for sharing sensitive files with non tech people? | 13
Seeking advice in how to deal with frustration against big corps as dev | 4
How do you do things outside of work? | 4
How do startups protect early inventions without overspending? | 1
Which course you took ultimately had the biggest impact on your career? | 1
What's the most boring/frustrating/tedious part of your day? | 6
Dark Energy is the thermodynamic cost of encoding information on the horizon | 3
What's Been Your Experience Implementing Web Accessibility? | 10
What's the "best" way to version your product? | 5
I built NeurIPS '25 visualizer | 0
Constant-Current Design for a 100M Outdoor LED Run | 2
Will Kagi's subscription cost reduce with enough subscribers? | 8
Superfill.ai – Open-source AI extension for intelligent form autofill | 0
Did Mark Zuckerberg try to recruit you with soup? | 0
Which post on HN has the most comments? | 3
Someone impersonates my GitHub project, what to do? | 5
Tell HN: Neon Inc is billing free users now for $20 subscriptions | 1
How to Convince Andrej Karpathy to join my startup? | 3
Are RGB LED installations contributing to e-waste and energy waste? | 1
Tell HN: iOS 18.7.2 in Lockdown Mode is unable to load many websites | 4
Tell HN: Being bullied by an Indian compliance automation platform | 1
We're 15 and 17, used our data science skill to build an AI social media manager | 6
A restaurant that shows a video of your burger's cow in happier times? | 3
Anyone using CRM and chatbot? What's broken or frustrating? | 1
A 2,500-year lineage of daemon-like naming conventions, from antiquity to AI | 4
Best place to be a founder outside of the US? | 3
Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops | 0
Why don't GPU/TPU manufacturers commoditize their RAM complement | 9
What Are You Building? | 1
How can a web Senior SWE move into a good game-dev or game-related job? | 10
Anyone considered forming a General Computing political organization? | 3
"Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads gone? | 4
Does cross-posting to Medium still help, or does it just dilute SEO now? | 5
Have You Automated Cooking? | 6
Font | 4
Do you think you have your location services on? | 4
Best tricks to make a PWA feel more native? | 4
What alternatives to Docker Desktop are people using? | 9
GraphLite: An open-source embedded graph DB with full ISO GQL support (Rust) | 4
How do you keep up with AI/crypto/markets without drowning in noise? | 11
Tell HN: Nascent idea: "super intelligence" is not about superior intelligence | 4
Has anyone made money self-publishing tech criticism? | 5