Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen | 8
  2. Who is hiring? (December 2025) | 481
  3. Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down | 163
  4. Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending | 103
  5. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA | 234
  6. Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) | 396
  7. Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago? | 199
  8. Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest) | 25
  9. Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn? | 4
  10. Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone? | 9
  11. Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth? | 80
  12. What are the ethics at YC? | 11
  13. Why is everyone in tech so performative/two faced | 30
  14. Is Cloudflare Down for You? | 12
  15. Cloudflare WAF Alternatives? | 9
  16. What are you working on? (Dec 2025) | 26
  17. Tell HN: I'm posting this while in flight over Atlantic Ocean | 9
  18. I Stopped Performing Online and Started Building Again | 12
  19. What fiction books would you recommend for programmers? | 27
  20. How do you handle lost webhooks in production? | 11
  21. How does one get involved in FPGA development? | 15
  22. LED Streetlights Are Disrupting Ecosystems – A Systems Failure | 2
  23. Modern C# book for experienced developers? | 2
  24. I haven't had to buy a Windows computer in 20 years | 18
  25. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2025) | 32
  26. Battling Depression | 17
  27. Anyone writing code from scratch or mostly doing architecting and LLM? | 17
  28. What did onboarding training look like in OS kernel teams? | 2
  29. Which web browser are you using and why? | 17
  30. What is better to use lead-free/leaded solder? | 11
  31. Recruiters, does contractor vs. FTE matter? | 3
  32. Why are streaming apps so bad (insiders only)? | 15
  33. Looking for "invisible" OSS projects to donate to for Cybermonday | 1
  34. My mom doesn't like cat videos anymore | 2
  35. Nvidia open sources the synthetic data framework used to build Nemotron datasets | 1
  36. Do you still think public blockchains/stablecoins are useless/a scam? | 17
  37. What has been your experience with Agentic Coding? | 7
  38. Selling one's self | 6
  39. Is it OK to look at AoC solutions? | 11
  40. Does anything beat Hetzner Storage Boxes for the price? | 1
  41. Any experience using LLMs to license-wash FOSS projects? | 8
  42. Lenovo Support – Hot Garbage | 0
  43. What are you working on? (Dec 2025) | 3
  44. Others seeing agents do remarkable things when given their own logs? | 2
  45. DeslopifAI – Remove AI Slop | 0
  46. Why we dont we have dark mode on Hacker News yet? this is not funny | 13
  47. What does Vibe Coding mean for non-programmers? | 3
  48. Is GitHub currently leaking private issues and pull requests? | 0
  49. Who is fundraising? (December 2025) | 2
  50. Did I do a 5 year BS to become an algo whore? | 0
  51. Seeking advice in how to deal with frustration against big corps as dev | 4
  52. Python terminal app as Android Phone app | 14
  53. How do you do things outside of work? | 4
  54. CPU-only PPO solving TSPLIB lin318 in 20 mins (0.08% gap) | 0
  55. AI-Revived Cube World | 0
  56. How do startups protect early inventions without overspending? | 1
  57. Which course you took ultimately had the biggest impact on your career? | 1
  58. What's the most boring/frustrating/tedious part of your day? | 6
  59. Dark Energy is the thermodynamic cost of encoding information on the horizon | 3
  60. A marketplace that kills the hidden ad-waste tax in e-commerce | 2
  61. Constant-Current Design for a 100M Outdoor LED Run | 2
  62. Will Kagi's subscription cost reduce with enough subscribers? | 8
  63. Superfill.ai – Open-source AI extension for intelligent form autofill | 0
  64. Practicality of harnessing geomagnetic fields for electrical generation? | 11
  65. AWS Amplify Is a Joke | 1
  66. Are LLMs just expensive search and scripting tools? Is it that simple? | 4
  67. Dunkelflaute' turns off my monitor | 1
  68. Tell HN: Happy LLM Day | 7
  69. Did Mark Zuckerberg try to recruit you with soup? | 0
  70. Which post on HN has the most comments? | 3
  71. Someone impersonates my GitHub project, what to do? | 5
  72. Is there a HN but more business/startup oriented? | 8
  73. What is the future of SaaS when things are this easy to build? | 1
  74. Tell HN: Neon Inc is billing free users now for $20 subscriptions | 1
  75. How to Convince Andrej Karpathy to join my startup? | 3
  76. Are RGB LED installations contributing to e-waste and energy waste? | 1
  77. Tell HN: Being bullied by an Indian compliance automation platform | 1
  78. We're 15 and 17, used our data science skill to build an AI social media manager | 6
  79. What language are you using to do AOC in? | 5
  80. LX: A CLI tool for LaTeX notes management | 0
  81. Tell HN: ChatGPT has 13B revenue but can't make a working website | 2
  82. A restaurant that shows a video of your burger's cow in happier times? | 3
  83. How are you preparing for the impending Android sideloading changes? | 0
  84. B2B SaaS founders: what are (or have been) your biggest problems? | 2
  85. Anyone using CRM and chatbot? What's broken or frustrating? | 1
  86. What Are You Building? | 1
  87. How can a web Senior SWE move into a good game-dev or game-related job? | 10
  88. Anyone considered forming a General Computing political organization? | 3
  89. "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads gone? | 3
  90. Does cross-posting to Medium still help, or does it just dilute SEO now? | 5
  91. Have You Automated Cooking? | 6
  92. Font | 4
  93. Do you think you have your location services on? | 3
  94. I want to build my own query language | 11
  95. What alternatives to Docker Desktop are people using? | 9
  96. Indian cricket team lost 20 consecutive tosses, a probability of 1 in million | 3
  97. How do you keep up with AI/crypto/markets without drowning in noise? | 10
  98. Tell HN: Nascent idea: "super intelligence" is not about superior intelligence | 4
  99. Has anyone made money self-publishing tech criticism? | 6
  100. What do you want for Christmas? | 3