Ask HN ranking for the past week

Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen | 8
Who is hiring? (December 2025) | 481
Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down | 163
Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending | 103
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA | 234
Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) | 396
Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago? | 199
Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest) | 25
Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn? | 4
Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone? | 9
Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth? | 80
What are the ethics at YC? | 11
Why is everyone in tech so performative/two faced | 30
Is Cloudflare Down for You? | 12
Cloudflare WAF Alternatives? | 9
What are you working on? (Dec 2025) | 26
Tell HN: I'm posting this while in flight over Atlantic Ocean | 9
I Stopped Performing Online and Started Building Again | 12
What fiction books would you recommend for programmers? | 27
How do you handle lost webhooks in production? | 11
How does one get involved in FPGA development? | 15
LED Streetlights Are Disrupting Ecosystems – A Systems Failure | 2
Modern C# book for experienced developers? | 2
I haven't had to buy a Windows computer in 20 years | 18
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2025) | 32
Battling Depression | 17
Anyone writing code from scratch or mostly doing architecting and LLM? | 17
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
Why are streaming apps so bad (insiders only)? | 15
Looking for "invisible" OSS projects to donate to for Cybermonday | 1
My mom doesn't like cat videos anymore | 2
Nvidia open sources the synthetic data framework used to build Nemotron datasets | 1
Do you still think public blockchains/stablecoins are useless/a scam? | 17
What has been your experience with Agentic Coding? | 7
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 | 0
What are you working on? (Dec 2025) | 3
Others seeing agents do remarkable things when given their own logs? | 2
DeslopifAI – Remove AI Slop | 0
Why we dont we have dark mode on Hacker News yet? this is not funny | 13
What does Vibe Coding mean for non-programmers? | 3
Is GitHub currently leaking private issues and pull requests? | 0
Who is fundraising? (December 2025) | 2
Did I do a 5 year BS to become an algo whore? | 0
Seeking advice in how to deal with frustration against big corps as dev | 4
Python terminal app as Android Phone app | 14
How do you do things outside of work? | 4
CPU-only PPO solving TSPLIB lin318 in 20 mins (0.08% gap) | 0
AI-Revived Cube World | 0
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
A marketplace that kills the hidden ad-waste tax in e-commerce | 2
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
Practicality of harnessing geomagnetic fields for electrical generation? | 11
AWS Amplify Is a Joke | 1
Are LLMs just expensive search and scripting tools? Is it that simple? | 4
Dunkelflaute' turns off my monitor | 1
Tell HN: Happy LLM Day | 7
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
Is there a HN but more business/startup oriented? | 8
What is the future of SaaS when things are this easy to build? | 1
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: 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
What language are you using to do AOC in? | 5
LX: A CLI tool for LaTeX notes management | 0
Tell HN: ChatGPT has 13B revenue but can't make a working website | 2
A restaurant that shows a video of your burger's cow in happier times? | 3
How are you preparing for the impending Android sideloading changes? | 0
B2B SaaS founders: what are (or have been) your biggest problems? | 2
Anyone using CRM and chatbot? What's broken or frustrating? | 1
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? | 3
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? | 3
I want to build my own query language | 11
What alternatives to Docker Desktop are people using? | 9
Indian cricket team lost 20 consecutive tosses, a probability of 1 in million | 3
How do you keep up with AI/crypto/markets without drowning in noise? | 10
Tell HN: Nascent idea: "super intelligence" is not about superior intelligence | 4
Has anyone made money self-publishing tech criticism? | 6
What do you want for Christmas? | 3