Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs? | 172
  2. GitHub Down | 2
  3. An exposed .git folder let us dox a phishing campaign | 21
  4. GitHub Is Having Issues | 1
  5. Facebook has made it impossible to delete Pages – dark patterns everywhere | 15
  6. Cloudflare Down? | 4
  7. Cloud providers are losing in favor of bare-metal? | 26
  8. Cloudflare is down. How does this affect you? | 2
  9. Tell HN: Cursor exposes side projects to your employer | 22
  10. The new Grok on X is aligned to favor Elon Musk over anyone else when asked | 3
  11. What are some modern technologies that you refuse to adopt? | 58
  12. Why does Y Combinator seem to be consistently funding AI slop? | 14
  13. Why All the Indonesian Spam? | 7
  14. What were the best books you read in 2025? | 20
  15. What is the current state of the art in BIG (>5TB) cloud backups? | 18
  16. Engineers working AI tools. Are you working more or less? | 21
  17. How would you architect a RAG system for 10M+ documents today? | 4
  18. Built a Pomodoro timer for ADHD brains: always visible progress bar | 4
  19. Struggling founders, pls share your startup struggle | 15
  20. How do you monitor the threads on HN you are engaging with? | 10
  21. Why doesn't someone just send the Epstein files to WikiLeaks? | 10
  22. The death of Arduino? | 1
  23. Does anyone else feel like a 'manager' now, with AI? | 12
  24. Vitalik says that QC might break ECC before 2028. This is crazy, right? | 6
  25. Have you ever seen a perfect codebase? | 13
  26. Are you still working with a website that requires Internet Explorer? | 6
  27. Reason for the DDoS attacks on DALnet circa 2002? | 0
  28. Dismal reality of modern day corporate IT | 4
  29. Tell HN: How to Think about AI | 9
  30. Rust Is Memory Safe, but Logic Bugs Still Occur - SPARK Ada Can Help | 2
  31. What does "legacy code" mean to you? | 15
  32. Current state of Android USB tethering? | 0
  33. Startup CTO insisting on only vibe coding – What to do? | 7
  34. Why is Apache still popular even as Nginx has proven its mettle on performance? | 12
  35. What's the Least Amount of Process a Small Team Can Get Away With? | 8
  36. Why so many sites block traffic from Russia? | 10
  37. Vercel.com: Do not use Vercel | 6
  38. Does It Still Make Sense to Buy a New Car? | 10
  39. Where can you find old NetBSD packages? | 2
  40. Why is there black line on top? I guess not because of Cloudflare outage | 3
  41. Cloudflare Down, Again | 2
  42. VCs from sillicon valley needs to stop selling "hustle porn" | 1
  43. How are you preparing for retirement? | 2
  44. Salesforce no longer sells Slack directly in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan | 6
  45. What are your biggest complaints about tools like Cursor? | 3
  46. Our town faces a 300MW DC proposal. What are the real risks? | 2
  47. Why doesn't Hacker News improve its UI? | 9
  48. Which Class Is Better? | 3
  49. Running a self hosted server with IPv6 is still a nightmare in 2025 | 2
  50. What is the best way to see what files are being read in Windows? | 4
  51. I'm 74, spent 18mo coding an on-device AI platform to fix the GTM model | 2
  52. Microsoft E Anthropic | 2
  53. Claude Is Down | 5
  54. Am I the only one thinking ChatGPT 5.1 Thiking thinks for too long ? | 8
  55. What could possibly happen so people would want to read more? | 9
  56. I almost lost my Apple account to phishing that exploited Apple Support | 0
  57. Microsoft watches you through Windows | 0
  58. How Do Developers Stay Up to Date Without Being on Twitter All Day? | 10
  59. That feeling when the "smart" financial decision flips on its head | 8
  60. GitHub Arctic Code Vault unintentionally preserved a snapshot from pre-LLM | 1
  61. What are "everyday coding tasks"? | 0
  62. Cloudflare is down and causing outages at X, OpenAI | 1
  63. Email: FTC Prime Subscription Settlement Fund has sent you $0.99 USD | 0
  64. How does modern day fraud detection looks like? | 0
  65. What operating systems, apps, etc. had your favorite UI designs? | 11
  66. For the past 2.5 years my AGI timelines were set for 2025. They missed | 0
  67. Who is November 18 2025 black bar for? | 2
  68. ADHD have crippled my life, I do not know what to do? | 9
  69. Why the Black Line on Top? | 3
  70. F1TV issue on Firefox after latest Google Announcement – Coincidence? | 0
  71. What is the modern equivalent of Bell Labs? | 3
  72. Semantic Query Engines with Matthew Russo (MIT) | 0
  73. What insight or habit has led to a breakthrough in your mental health? | 7
  74. Gemini 3 and the stagnation of coding agents, what gives? | 2
  75. Is Uber Exploitative? | 3
  76. How to get funding for your product? | 2
  77. Is Twitter (X) Down? | 2
  78. How do you prioritize dependency updates? | 5
  79. Have you directly authored a high-profile massive bug? How does it feel? | 3
  80. Low hanging fruit projects for gaining open source clout | 5
  81. Has anyone properly set up LLM programming workflow? | 1
  82. High Schoolers Built a Swipeable Local Business Directory | 2
  83. Comments in Code. Yay or Nay? | 16
  84. Is it possible to have an LLM always give a consistent output? | 7
  85. What should people not do with their work computer? | 5
  86. Why are we still calling LLMs LLMs? | 4
  87. How do you choose your next programming language to learn? | 7
  88. AI Bubble – how it all ends | 1
  89. Cloudflare is working again for my servers (US East) | 1
  90. Where to Migrate as an IT Support/DevOps Engineer for Work? | 4
  91. Agent evaluations, what is everything I should know? | 5
  92. Git Mirrors. Who's running one? What repos are you mirroring? | 3
  93. Founder Leaving Startup, How? | 2
  94. Anyone else hate the GitHub Android app | 4
  95. I bought a new mobile phone experience is crazy | 4
  96. Are current frontier model apps capable of handling Epstein files? | 1
  97. My Professional X Account Was Hacked and X Support Won't Help Me | 5
  98. CXOs suck at remote work so they mandate everyone for an in-office culture | 1
  99. How does vocal removal from Songs work? | 2
  100. Launch Black Friday Marketing on Telegram with Telega.io | 1