Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving | 196
  2. Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest | 85
  3. Tell HN: Regrets. Think carefully about how you spend your time | 103
  4. What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments? | 49
  5. Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest) | 20
  6. Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen | 0
  7. I changed my address, and TransferWise in two days will empty my account | 29
  8. What open source projects are you grateful for? | 35
  9. Should account creation/origin country be displayed on HN profiles? | 37
  10. Color.io Is Going Offline | 16
  11. Scheduling stateful nodes when MMAP makes memory accounting a lie | 25
  12. Why is OpenAI lying about the data its collecting on users? | 14
  13. Tell HN: Cursor charged 19 subscriptions, won't refund | 7
  14. What work problems would your company pay to solve? | 18
  15. Tell HN: Declaration of Independence is 100% AI, according to AI Checker | 3
  16. Which cloud provider do you like best and why? | 18
  17. CoinTracker Third-party security incident (Mixpanel) | 4
  18. Who Is Looking for a Consultant? | 1
  19. Tell HN: I'm posting this while in flight over Atlantic Ocean | 8
  20. I Stopped Performing Online and Started Building Again | 10
  21. Tell HN: Google increased existing finetuned model latency by 5x | 2
  22. Does anyone just listen to their own AI music now? | 19
  23. How does one move from BigTech to more fullfilling places? | 6
  24. Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving | 5
  25. Malware in PostHog NPM packages | 9
  26. Can Management Be Outsourced? | 8
  27. If Unix gets more popular would you use it instead of Linux? | 18
  28. Im note going crazy. Right? Windows disabled WiFi when postponing updates | 3
  29. A logging loop in GKE cost me $1,300 in 3 days – 9.2x my actual infrastructure | 4
  30. Tell HN: Stall AI progress for the benefit of humanity | 14
  31. Google attacking human thought with Gemini in Google Keep | 1
  32. What Are You Thankful For? | 9
  33. Thank You, HN | 4
  34. Tell HN: Gemini 3 found a stack smash in a hex dump that I missed | 0
  35. How to Differentiate a General Agent from Manus? | 1
  36. Why aren't more startups using .NET? | 13
  37. What Are You Working On? | 3
  38. Why would you downvote without replying? | 10
  39. What is the best Christmas movie? | 10
  40. Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving | 1
  41. Photos corrupted on Google Pixel phones over time? | 9
  42. TermoSlack – A Terminal Based Slack Client | 1
  43. What did Stripe change (Value Add)? | 9
  44. What is your monitor setup? | 16
  45. How do you verify front-end code in agentic LLM coding loops? | 2
  46. TCP/IP Illustrated, v2 2e? | 0
  47. Thank You Hacker News – To Everyone – It Is the Most Fun Place on the Internet | 2
  48. Opinions on facial recognition at air ports? | 31
  49. A 27M parameter model beating LLMs on reasoning tasks | 1
  50. Why Hacker News UI still look like 90s? | 14
  51. Do AIs reply with numerous em dashes to save money somehow? | 8
  52. I built Jelly: an SSH-only social space (no passwords, no emails) | 4
  53. What's the point of starting a startup if the failure rate is so high? | 11
  54. Malicious Bun Script Found in NPM Package Bumps | 1
  55. Type 1 Hypervisor for use on a laptop? | 5
  56. Are We Becoming Distilled Versions of AI? | 3
  57. Hetzner asking for passport for new account? just me, or everyone? | 22
  58. Gemini 3 vs. Opus 4.5 | 1
  59. Why do maintainers spend time reviewing my code? | 4
  60. Tested OpenAI's prompt caching across models. Found undocumented behavior | 0
  61. Would you use a fast/cheap "prior art" service instead of a patent? | 6
  62. Obsidian/Joplin does NOT support manual/arbitrary sorting of folders or notes | 3
  63. Do you use your phone as hotel/free WiFi condom for laptops? | 5
  64. Why don't closed captions boldface words that are likely to be misheard? | 2
  65. Tell HN: OpenAI Security Incident with PII | 2
  66. Practicality of harnessing geomagnetic fields for electrical generation? | 5
  67. AWS Amplify Is a Joke | 1
  68. How do you trigger deployments in your workflow? | 1
  69. Is starting a new project in C++ just a mistake in 2025? | 3
  70. Dunkelflaute' turns off my monitor | 1
  71. Is there a HN but more business/startup oriented? | 8
  72. How do you inspect Avro/Protobuf records during debugging? | 4
  73. Is all AI coded code in the public domain? | 5
  74. Walrus – distributed message streaming in Rust | 0
  75. Have major security breeches been less common lately? | 6
  76. Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving – Grateful | 3
  77. What language are you using to do AOC in? | 5
  78. LX: A CLI tool for LaTeX notes management | 0
  79. How are you preparing for the impending Android sideloading changes? | 0
  80. Can RGB light strips produce 16M colors? | 1
  81. B2B SaaS founders: what are (or have been) your biggest problems? | 2
  82. How do you spot AI writing? | 0
  83. A marketplace that kills the hidden ad-waste tax in e-commerce | 1
  84. I feel like I've lost my motivation to continue learning programming | 4
  85. Does anyone run ads successfully? | 3
  86. I want to build my own query language | 11
  87. Have you used an LLM for grief support? | 3
  88. Tell HN: Happy LLM Day | 6
  89. Python terminal app as Android Phone app | 4
  90. Jews in Computer Science | 5
  91. GitHub vs. self-hosted forges – What's your first impression? | 6
  92. H00k.dev | 4
  93. Tell HN: ChatGPT has 13B revenue but can't make a working website | 2
  94. What licensing software are you choosing for your projects? | 2
  95. Solo founders – is your LLM filling the cofounder gap? | 6
  96. Ever done large contract work? | 3
  97. We Need Help with Our Anomaly Detection Algorithm | 5
  98. Ask YN: What CI do you use instead of GitHub Actions? | 2
  99. What's your AI coding setup? | 3
  100. Have you switched from AWS to GCP for more startup credits? | 2