Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Share your personal website | 1539
  2. The $LANG Programming Language | 66
  3. What are you working on? (January 2026) | 857
  4. ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas? | 136
  5. Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient? | 94
  6. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today | 6
  7. Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha? | 135
  8. How are you doing RAG locally? | 25
  9. Weird archive.today behavior? | 20
  10. Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant | 67
  11. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update | 47
  12. How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access? | 96
  13. What did you find out or explore today? | 54
  14. Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline | 32
  15. Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan? | 81
  16. How would you decouple from the US? | 22
  17. What is the best way to provide continuous context to models? | 17
  18. Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work? | 11
  19. Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe | 44
  20. Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming | 31
  21. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026 | 25
  22. If you had $10M in the bank, would you still show up to your job? | 92
  23. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down | 17
  24. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind | 36
  25. Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish | 11
  26. Is Programming as a Profession Cooked? | 32
  27. Job seekers, what's working / not working? | 18
  28. 500 citation MSc CS, stuck in a low-trust region. How to move forward? | 12
  29. Why did ICE deport my coworker? | 8
  30. MIT Non-AI License | 42
  31. Is "AI vibe coding" making prototyping worse inside real companies? | 5
  32. Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code? | 13
  33. What was the best sci-fi book of 2025? | 1
  34. Google's Universal Commerce Protocol aims to make shopping AI-native | 15
  35. OpenAI API and ChatGPT are down | 1
  36. X Is Down | 4
  37. Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers? | 4
  38. YC Cofounder Matching inbox stuck in infinite loading loop – anyone else? | 3
  39. When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you? | 15
  40. Where is all the protest music? | 14
  41. What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly? | 16
  42. Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform? | 10
  43. Delve AI Audit Fraud | 2
  44. Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables | 10
  45. Why is example.com using Cloudflare | 3
  46. How do you automate your release notes? | 15
  47. Gh Account Permabanned – Help? | 10
  48. Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife | 12
  49. Tell HN: I Downgraded from macOS Tahoe to Sequoia | 6
  50. Cancelled 2x Cursor Ultra plans, here's why | 7
  51. I've maintained an open source task manager for 8 years | 1
  52. Trying to find a website featured on HN that listed restaurants in NYC | 0
  53. How to search Remote-from-Anywhere jobs | 4
  54. Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts | 10
  55. Who's running local AI workstations in 2026? | 8
  56. Am I the only one who is nervous? | 2
  57. Phind Is Shutting Down | 3
  58. Amazon gives managers a new way to spot employees not spending time in office | 3
  59. Why isn't AI spawning profitable indie games? | 12
  60. Have AI tools like agents affected your motivation at work? | 2
  61. How to make working in software fun again? | 9
  62. Iran has now been offline for 100 hours. What can we "technically" do? | 13
  63. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) | 3
  64. Moved to SF to build a startup. What next? | 4
  65. macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6 | 7
  66. Are you underutilizing your insurance too? | 5
  67. Erratic HN front page algorithm | 4
  68. Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption? | 2
  69. Claude is down – Jan 14th 2026 | 0
  70. Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine | 1
  71. Does HN have a bot problem? | 12
  72. Cursor vs. antigravity after a week of real use | 0
  73. Do you trust Sam Altman? | 4
  74. Cheaper Datadog anyone? | 11
  75. Who are the companies that still use Perl in their back end? | 10
  76. Tell HN: X changed its Iran flag emoji | 1
  77. Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls? | 1
  78. Where is legacy codebase maintenance headed? | 4
  79. Any evidence AI coding assistants are helping open source projects? | 0
  80. Tell HN: Mattermost "upgrade" to v11 enforces 10k UI message limit | 3
  81. How to find gaps and oppurtunities in the AI era? | 4
  82. What made you move back to HTML-to-PDF in production? | 7
  83. Working on decentralized compute at io.net sharing what we're learning | 3
  84. What frustrates you most about personal finance apps? | 2
  85. Does anyone else think that humanoid robots is a bubble? | 9
  86. Anyone else feels that their job quality has declined severely recently? | 5
  87. What Happened to Coding Competions? | 1
  88. What will you pick as your database of 2026 Yugabyte, TiDB or SurrealDB? | 3
  89. Tell HN: A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer | 6
  90. Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS? | 5
  91. Reddit Is Down | 1
  92. What happens to an economy when AI makes most human labor optional | 1
  93. Are diffs still useful for AI-assisted code changes? | 9
  94. What makes someone hate their job? | 13
  95. What business processes still waste time every week? | 10
  96. Why are so many images now in unusual file formats? | 7
  97. Has macOS Tahoe been fixed enough to update to? | 5
  98. "Too many people in HN work in Google or Apple–that itself is immoral." | 4
  99. Thoughts on maintaining anonymity against state-level actors? | 3
  100. Tenor is shutting down – here's the alternative KLIPY | 1