Ask HN ranking for the past week

Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? | 459
Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down | 164
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA | 304
How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act? | 89
Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years? | 37
Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn? | 4
Modern C# book for experienced developers? | 7
Cloudflare WAF Alternatives? | 15
Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE? | 11
What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 44
Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer | 9
What are you buying your kids for Christmas? | 9
AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target | 8
What are young technically minded people reading? | 26
Is GitHub Down? | 7
Why "all-in-one" productivity tools confuse new users | 16
Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays? | 7
Posted AI book on algorithms–5.3K views, zero sales. What now? | 10
End of Year Book Recommendations | 5
Is it still worth learning a new programming language? | 17
Why can't we discuss Israel on HN? | 18
Better places to work for burntout SWE? | 10
What is the future of SaaS when things are this easy to build? | 9
What hard problems are still underexplored? | 18
Who else got pwned by the Next.js RCE? | 5
Why does every B2B SaaS have to look like Linear/Stripe? | 15
My mom doesn't like cat videos anymore | 3
A tiny entropy experiment to push LLMs into unexpected paths | 2
Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month? | 0
What's Next? Clippy Copilot? | 5
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
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
There's a Database of Startup Ideas Here | 0
What's your go to for sharing sensitive files with non tech people? | 14
I spent $1000 on Google Ads and here's what I learnt | 4
Thoughts of a Neopagan / the Reconstruction of Neolithic Religion | 2
Is Mythical Man-Month still relevant in todays AI Vibe Coding world? | 8
Is any of you using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps? | 5
What's the "best" way to version your product? | 15
2026: The Year the IDE Died (Steve Yegge and Gene Kim Talk AI Coding) | 9
Which domain name registrar do you use? | 9
Do you believe Netflix will be a good steward of Warner Bros? | 5
Startupideasdb,com is where I got my dream AI Tech Startup Idea. You can Google | 0
Console.text() – SMS alerts when code executes | 7
Tell HN: iOS 18.7.2 in Lockdown Mode is unable to load many websites | 4
I built an AI web-scraper that bypasses captchas and login pages | 2
Veteran-built iPhone steadiness tracker to help people avoid falls | 3
What's Been Your Experience Implementing Web Accessibility? | 11
DuckDuckGo Icons Easter Egg | 0
How do small businesses handle phone calls? | 3
Practical Tips for Gemini 3 | 0
Did Mark Zuckerberg try to recruit you with soup? | 0
How difficult will resuming a SWE career be after a sabbatical? | 2
What do you do about real art/work being called "AI Slop?" | 1
Tell HN: Being bullied by an Indian compliance automation platform | 1
How can I learn smartphone repair online? | 3
Why are people using Claude or ChatGPT when Gemini is free? | 6
Ruby devs earn more than average devs | 0
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
Why don't GPU/TPU manufacturers commoditize their RAM complement | 11
Anyone considered forming a General Computing political organization? | 3
"Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads gone? | 4
How do you get human support from OpenAI? | 0
What if AI was used to distribute work instead of doing the work? | 0
What's the best book you read in the last year? | 2
When is the last time you wished the docs were in a single file? | 1
Is there a "good" (non-privacy horror) aftermarket HUD for your car? | 2
Anyone Else Noticed This? | 3
Limitless (Rewind) is acquired by Meta | 1
New swe engineer at a scale-up, low quality of projects | 0
Co-Founder Salary Dispute | 5
What was the most humble living situation you had in your early days? | 2
GCP account got compromised and ran million dollar bill | 2
What does it take to dodge the cloud? | 7
Best tricks to make a PWA feel more native? | 4
Is a human brain more like a CPU or an FPGA? | 6
Has anyone automated social listening for Reddit/LinkedIn/ with decent accuracy? | 3
Native Parallel Reasoner: Self-Evolving to Learn Parallel Reasoning | 0
Ask HNIs early-stage fundraising broken,or founders just pitching the wrong way? | 0
December 2025: Claude Code vs. Opencode vs. Codex vs. Gemini CLI | 2
Privacy-first budgeting tool – all data stays in localStorage, works offline | 0
Artificial Womb Technology: Survey of 750 Researchers | 2
Does professional coding make you forget the "magic" feeling? | 0
It's time to buy short positions for Cloudflare stocks again | 2
How is you and your team are using AI? | 1
Can I get around an assumed shadowban from Stripe? | 0
Why not make intelligence attractive, *literally*, in online dating? | 4
How does one build personal network? | 1
Where Are Nvidia's GPUs? | 8
How do you keep up with AI/crypto/markets without drowning in noise? | 11
Tell HN: GitHub listened and removed the AI summary feature | 0
Thought Experiment: Measuring the Circumference of the Earth from a Bedroom | 2
EU Healthcare Startups Cannot Legally Use OpenAI API Despite Saying They Can | 0
Cloudflare Is Back Onine? | 1
GitHub UI Unresponsive | 0
What do you want for Christmas? | 3