Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids? | 86
  2. Who is hiring? (January 2026) | 334
  3. Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) | 397
  4. Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft? | 77
  5. Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life | 127
  6. Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha? | 109
  7. What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible? | 58
  8. Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline | 32
  9. Reading list for being a better engineer? | 16
  10. LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming | 46
  11. Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right | 13
  12. How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively? | 54
  13. Help with LLVM | 9
  14. What are you working on? (Jan 2026) | 90
  15. Has anyone else been struggling with search lately? | 19
  16. Expository/Succinct Books on Modern Physics | 25
  17. What's the future of software testing and QA? | 18
  18. How would you decouple from the US? | 8
  19. What did you learn in 2025? | 8
  20. I made a lofi page for late night work | 9
  21. What's the best talk you've watched? | 14
  22. Inducing self-NSFW classification in image models to prevent deepfakes edits | 16
  23. What do people usually do with spare Android phones? Any practical use cases? | 21
  24. How is your work making the world a better place? | 17
  25. Anyone building software for wearable tech? | 15
  26. Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell | 15
  27. How do I help a colleague who introduces a lot of typos? | 49
  28. Leaving at 5pm in Europe, flagged as "uncommitted" by US management | 7
  29. Should HN be tech news and discussions only? | 32
  30. I optimised my vibe coding tech stack cost to $0 | 14
  31. OpenAI API and ChatGPT are down | 1
  32. My Logitech mouse became unusable, Logi Options+ can't validate certificate | 10
  33. Tell HN: No continental US flights due to attack on Venezuela | 3
  34. Why LLM Is Lying? | 18
  35. Identity crisis as a software engineer because of AI | 1
  36. Is anyone aware of a LinkedIn mirror like xcancel.com for X? | 8
  37. Are you missing daily email alerts from HN? | 7
  38. Why not ban first-person pronouns from conversational AI? | 9
  39. Does Shenzhen Have an HN? | 1
  40. 50k people were dropped from one AI training project during the holidays | 3
  41. Tell HN: EU soliciting feedback on law that could affect Open Access | 0
  42. Tell HN: Internet Bug Bounty (IBB) on HackerOne Appears Dead, CVEs Unpaid | 2
  43. Who's given up on getting hired? (January 2026) | 1
  44. I'm building a 30k‑line V12 codebase solo with a "team" of 4 AIs | 9
  45. Tell HN: The US NE Weather Service to end technical Area Forecast Discussions | 1
  46. Cancelled 2x Cursor Ultra plans, here's why | 6
  47. Who is using local LLMs in a production environment here? | 3
  48. Who is using Nebula (mesh VPN)? | 6
  49. Why no dark mode? | 12
  50. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2026) | 25
  51. Am I the only one who is nervous? | 2
  52. Why Can't We Make Approved Building Plans Reusable? | 10
  53. Tell HN: Instagram Web has been broken for weeks | 3
  54. Amazon gives managers a new way to spot employees not spending time in office | 3
  55. How do small teams make sure recurring tasks don't slip? | 15
  56. Is anyone having success with Reddit ads? | 6
  57. What kind of setup do you run for your children? | 14
  58. I feel insulted when an LLM answers the phone | 4
  59. Where else do you keep up-to-date? | 1
  60. Android Tablet as Mac Display | 4
  61. iOS: Apps persist data after full deletion | 10
  62. Replacement for MacUpdater which reached EOL on 2026-01-01 | 3
  63. Private Operating System | 12
  64. What personal project do you plan to scale in 2026? | 3
  65. Its now Q2 of the 21st century | 4
  66. Tell HN: I have no interest in being tracked | 11
  67. Apple App Store Denial Because of Apple Pay | 4
  68. Books Should Update as Software | 10
  69. Skeptic impressed by colleague's AI workflow | 2
  70. Happy Perihelion | 0
  71. Itanium | 2
  72. What if a language's structure determined memory lifetime? | 18
  73. ScreenSense – OS Screen Rcorder Focused on Indviduals and Small Teams | 2
  74. Why are LLM's made intentionally non-deterministic? | 5
  75. Should HN be more transparent about shadow bans? | 22
  76. Would you install a scam call detector on your parent's phone? | 5
  77. What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service? | 3
  78. Is Vibe Coding a Craft? | 7
  79. How to fight doomscrolling habits with RSS? | 1
  80. I built a screen-aware desktop assistant; now it can write and use your computer | 4
  81. What's the oldest piece of code still running in your stack? | 3
  82. Have you been falsely accused of AI-generated content? | 7
  83. Do people splurge when they are unhappy in a high paying job? | 3
  84. Does HN have a bot problem? | 12
  85. Am I making a mistake building an email client for devs? | 8
  86. You get 3 answers to any unknowns in the universe. What do you ask? | 5
  87. Who are the companies that still use Perl in their back end? | 4
  88. Is There a HN for Game Devs? | 2
  89. Are there any antifeature-free power tools you can still buy new? | 4
  90. I want to know how everyone solves the problem of lacking creativity? | 7
  91. Why has "using" gone out of fashion? | 6
  92. Where is book industry heading to, with all this AI? | 3
  93. I built an AI money coach for new grads and it might be awesome | 6
  94. Why does macOS still lack focus stealing prevention in 2025? | 7
  95. Where is legacy codebase maintenance headed? | 2
  96. Why is HN so important? | 6
  97. What do you plan to read in 2026? | 4
  98. How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge? | 3
  99. Anyone else seeing porn images in YouTube ad preview images? | 6
  100. What are your small comforts? | 6