Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? | 461
  2. How can I get better at using AI for programming? | 318
  3. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100 | 85
  4. Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years? | 38
  5. What are you buying your kids for Christmas? | 43
  6. How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences? | 45
  7. AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target | 24
  8. How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work? | 37
  9. Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful) | 8
  10. Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone? | 7
  11. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE? | 15
  12. What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 51
  13. Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer | 11
  14. End of Year Book Recommendations | 9
  15. What are young technically minded people reading? | 27
  16. Is GitHub Down? | 7
  17. What hard problems are still underexplored? | 22
  18. Is it still worth learning a new programming language? | 17
  19. Who else got pwned by the Next.js RCE? | 6
  20. Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays? | 9
  21. Posted AI book on algorithms–5.3K views, zero sales. What now? | 10
  22. Go all-in on AI Boom vs. enjoy parenthood? | 22
  23. Why can't we discuss Israel on HN? | 16
  24. Better places to work for burntout SWE? | 10
  25. Tell HN: The Python Software Foundation is now showing banner ads | 11
  26. A tiny entropy experiment to push LLMs into unexpected paths | 2
  27. I miss the old Internet of 10-20 years ago | 5
  28. Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month? | 0
  29. What's Next? Clippy Copilot? | 5
  30. Is any of you using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps? | 7
  31. Practical Tips for Gemini 3 | 1
  32. What's your go to for sharing sensitive files with non tech people? | 14
  33. Are You Considering Leaving Tech All Together? | 9
  34. I spent $1000 on Google Ads and here's what I learnt | 4
  35. Any online tech spaces you hang around that don't involve AI? | 5
  36. Console.text() – SMS alerts when code executes | 11
  37. Thoughts of a Neopagan / the Reconstruction of Neolithic Religion | 2
  38. Thought-Provoking Books | 6
  39. ArXiv Endorsement as Independent Researcher | 6
  40. Tell HN: Cloudflare now censors Polymarket in Germany | 6
  41. What's the "best" way to version your product? | 15
  42. 2026: The Year the IDE Died (Steve Yegge and Gene Kim Talk AI Coding) | 9
  43. How do small businesses handle phone calls? | 4
  44. Which domain name registrar do you use? | 9
  45. Meta "deletes" years of conversations with friends/family | 4
  46. I built an AI web-scraper that bypasses captchas and login pages | 2
  47. Can someone explain why OpenAI credits expire? | 13
  48. Veteran-built iPhone steadiness tracker to help people avoid falls | 4
  49. How can I delete a Substack account in Australia? | 3
  50. The Day We Realized Who Colonizes the Galaxy | 0
  51. DuckDuckGo Icons Easter Egg | 0
  52. I would love to get some feedback from data-obsessed climbers (Expo/RN app) | 0
  53. What is your go-to breakfast? | 6
  54. What was the most humble living situation you had in your early days? | 3
  55. GCP account got compromised and ran million dollar bill | 2
  56. How difficult will resuming a SWE career be after a sabbatical? | 2
  57. Anyone else doing login-free trials with localStorage tokens? | 0
  58. DNS | 7
  59. What do you do about real art/work being called "AI Slop?" | 1
  60. How can I learn smartphone repair online? | 4
  61. Why are people using Claude or ChatGPT when Gemini is free? | 7
  62. Ruby devs earn more than average devs | 0
  63. Why don't GPU/TPU manufacturers commoditize their RAM complement | 11
  64. How do you get human support from OpenAI? | 0
  65. Pointless thing you've read that gratified your intellectual curiosity? | 0
  66. What if AI was used to distribute work instead of doing the work? | 0
  67. What's the best book you read in the last year? | 2
  68. Is writing without AI worse than sharing your medical records online? | 5
  69. When is the last time you wished the docs were in a single file? | 1
  70. Is there a "good" (non-privacy horror) aftermarket HUD for your car? | 2
  71. Anyone Else Noticed This? | 3
  72. New swe engineer at a scale-up, low quality of projects | 0
  73. Co-Founder Salary Dispute | 5
  74. Searching: Cybersecurity Classes | 1
  75. What does it take to dodge the cloud? | 7
  76. Best tricks to make a PWA feel more native? | 4
  77. Is a human brain more like a CPU or an FPGA? | 6
  78. Has anyone automated social listening for Reddit/LinkedIn/ with decent accuracy? | 3
  79. Health/Ocean builders: What problem would you pay to get off your plate? | 0
  80. Is there any value from "coming soon" placeholders? | 5
  81. Native Parallel Reasoner: Self-Evolving to Learn Parallel Reasoning | 0
  82. Accelerating Spark Queries | 0
  83. Ask HNIs early-stage fundraising broken,or founders just pitching the wrong way? | 0
  84. December 2025: Claude Code vs. Opencode vs. Codex vs. Gemini CLI | 2
  85. Privacy-first budgeting tool – all data stays in localStorage, works offline | 0
  86. Does professional coding make you forget the "magic" feeling? | 0
  87. Relatively SoTA LLM Agents from Scratch? | 3
  88. What is the most effective way to learn programming? | 10
  89. Developer career path: frontend or backend? | 0
  90. Revolutionizing Lighting: How Smart LEDs Are Transforming Homes and Businesses | 0
  91. Referral to coach for fundraising for pre-revenue seed capital? | 1
  92. Can I get around an assumed shadowban from Stripe? | 0
  93. Get Better at Programming? | 10
  94. What high-effort, high-reward skills have you developed in 2025? | 0
  95. How does one build personal network? | 1
  96. Where Are Nvidia's GPUs? | 8
  97. Tell HN: GitHub listened and removed the AI summary feature | 0
  98. Are you building internal Lovable/v0-like tools for your PMs/etc.? | 0
  99. EU Healthcare Startups Cannot Legally Use OpenAI API Despite Saying They Can | 0
  100. GitHub UI Unresponsive | 0