Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Tell HN: HN was down | 327
  2. Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell | 522
  3. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 1449
  4. Does anyone understand how Hacker News works? | 226
  5. What are your predictions for 2026? | 187
  6. Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake? | 122
  7. Was HN just down for anyone else? | 2
  8. Who here is not working on web apps/server code? | 93
  9. How are you LLM-coding in an established code base? | 66
  10. Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI? | 78
  11. The internet is getting worse every day. How do we fix this? | 30
  12. Memory Safety in C# vs. Rust | 12
  13. Is Stack Overflow Dead? | 17
  14. Bloggers, how do you manage your content? | 14
  15. Are you afraid of AI making you unemployable within the next few years? | 43
  16. Should I start a software foundation (goal: help emergency services)? | 0
  17. Cloudflare has been broken for 15 hours | 12
  18. Is RSS Still Alive? | 12
  19. How do you deal with large, hard-to-read Excel formulas? | 10
  20. Tell HN: Cloudflare Down Again? | 7
  21. Please suggest a smart watch that can be customized | 8
  22. What is the most complex software you've built single handedly? | 2
  23. Best back end to run models on Google TPU? | 0
  24. How do you know what you're working on is worth working on? | 21
  25. Prediction Market Investors – Where Do I Find Them? | 8
  26. Is anyone using LLM based document processing in production? | 8
  27. The offline geocoder we wanted | 2
  28. Are iOS 26 and macOS 26 good yet? | 4
  29. Should I Open Source Every Product I Build as an Indie Developer? | 14
  30. Running your own email service? | 4
  31. What would you call a package whose purpose is to import data? | 9
  32. AI Code assistants has made completing side projects so easy | 7
  33. How do you get comfortable with shipping code you haven't reviewed? | 12
  34. Can someone explain why Meta makes such bad design decisions? | 10
  35. Tell HN: iOS 18.7.3 Update Hidden | 4
  36. Is analytics a necessary evil rather than a real value driver? | 7
  37. I realized bad lighting is quietly hurting productivity (and no one measures it) | 5
  38. How are you educating your elementary aged children? | 2
  39. How do teams remember why infrastructure decisions were made? | 11
  40. The reason smart founders pick bad startup ideas | 1
  41. How do I navigate horror of requirement gathering in product management? | 5
  42. Breaking Changes in Python-3.14 | 9
  43. Why Do People Prefer YouTube Videos over Big-Budget Movies and TV Shows? | 8
  44. Am I having a mid life crisis? | 4
  45. Startup launch destroyed by Bolt.new's AI. 10M tokens gone, no response | 9
  46. How do you learn marketing as a developer? It's so different from coding | 5
  47. If one day AI brain chips become a thing, would you get it? | 24
  48. Incorporate in Which Country? | 1
  49. Tell HN: HP Smart Printers | 3
  50. Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable? | 1
  51. Spotify seems to be down | 3
  52. Tell HN: Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison's Apple account has been unlocked | 2
  53. Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2025 | 4
  54. Claude Opus 4.5 vs. GPT 5.1 Codex Max for coding. Worth the upgrade? | 6
  55. How are most people converting HEIC to jpg? | 12
  56. Why are Gemini CLI and Claude Code TUIs so terrible? | 4
  57. 5th Month of Unemployment and Still No Job | 1
  58. DietPi released a new version v9.20 | 0
  59. Is Claude Code good enough already? | 1
  60. How is Google's AI Mode so fast and so good? | 0
  61. Looking for contributors and maintainers for a open source launcher | 0
  62. What's a piece of tech you were excited about but stopped using? | 4
  63. FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends | 0
  64. How do I re-train myself to think clearly? | 6
  65. Can we (technically) extract salt from our sweat? | 2
  66. Built a new version of HN/Reddit | 7
  67. LLM Benchmark: Frontier models now statistically indistinguishable | 4
  68. How would you learn to code in 2026? | 1
  69. How to bypass YouTube ad-blocking restrictions? | 12
  70. Built a content system that 6x'd traffic. Turning it into product. Want to test? | 1
  71. How to noise cancel out a specific annoying sound? | 7
  72. I replaced every light in my apartment with addressable LED strips | 1
  73. How Much Energy Does One Solar Panel Produce in Australia? | 0
  74. What is your dangerous idea? | 3
  75. AI Took Your Job? | 0
  76. How do you stay focused while working on a computer all day? | 5
  77. AI search engine – How to prevent bots? | 12
  78. Etiquette giving feedback on mostly AI-generated PRs from co-workers | 6
  79. Rules for a desirable, non-toxic and less exploitable social platform? | 5
  80. Why do official-looking emails cause anxiety before I read them? | 5
  81. How to fight back against Lovable, Replit, etc. in enterprise products | 5
  82. What open hardware do you wish existed? | 7
  83. If you had to get a non-tech masters degree, what would you go for? | 6
  84. Is the antigravity web site high CPU on your OS? | 2
  85. Why Does Ruby Get So Much Hate on HN? | 8
  86. Questions about Aluminum Alloy | 3
  87. Any idea why Grok hasn't responded to any tweet for more than 3 hrs now? | 2
  88. Is Cloudflare Down Again? | 2
  89. Share a random link from your bookmarks | 3
  90. Should the Only Christian Have to Work on Christmas Day | 7
  91. If it were to be sold, how much would HN cost? | 16
  92. Show and tell your successfull sideprojects based in EU | 3
  93. Tell HN: PSN Stealth ID Verification | 1
  94. Vercel for Desktop Apps? | 1
  95. Who has enjoyed using PR code reviewers? What worked and what didn’t? | 4
  96. A simple leaderboard changed player behavior in my puzzle game | 5
  97. Does Google TPU Exists? | 2
  98. Do you allow vibecoded submissions in your open-source projects? | 10
  99. What makes you contribute to small open source projects? | 2
  100. My contribution to the idea that we lived in a simulation | 7