Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Who is hiring? (March 2025) | 409
  2. What less-popular systems programming language are you using? | 409
  3. Who wants to be hired? (March 2025) | 450
  4. Are you a 40-year old software engineer without a job for > 1 year? | 61
  5. Best Windows/Linux developer laptop in 2025 | 49
  6. Why is no one talking about Mozilla's latest madness? | 23
  7. How much employee resume verification is done in practice? | 74
  8. Europeans living in the US, where do you draw the line? | 19
  9. The Origins of the "++" and "--" Operators | 4
  10. Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting? | 51
  11. Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2025) | 161
  12. Where are the good Markdown to PDF tools (that meet these requirements)? | 55
  13. 18F Has Been Eliminated | 27
  14. A question about mentoring a junior developer | 36
  15. Tell HN: Brother printers no longer consumer friendly | 15
  16. Hacker Houses in Europe | 15
  17. Tell HN: Substack Is Spamming | 7
  18. What's your blog / portfolio stack? | 46
  19. Zelenskyy responds to Lindsey Graham's "he should resign" | 7
  20. Should the Mozilla Foundation be forked? | 8
  21. How do you feel now about your Tesla purchase? | 28
  22. Do Back-End Developers Even Have Portfolios? | 18
  23. Who's Pre-seed Investing? (March 2025) | 0
  24. Best Security Practices for Activists? | 10
  25. A humble attempt to save Europe | 18
  26. Firefox may be selling our data. Can you recommend an alternative? | 13
  27. Are forums dead? | 10
  28. Does anyone use MCP servers in their dev workflow? | 1
  29. Why old, retired but iconic software is almost never open sourced? | 10
  30. Is there a risk of e.g. AWS/GCP services getting "tariffed" in Europe? | 22
  31. Are you scared too that AI will replace white collar jobs? | 26
  32. Best LLM Stack for Q&A over Internal PDFs? | 5
  33. Will there be software roles in the coming European defense sector? | 7
  34. Are We in an AI Bubble? | 13
  35. Why are there so few Flutter jobs? Should I switch to React? | 9
  36. Whatever Happened to Slashdot? | 8
  37. AK HN: Is the Era of Hackers/Startups Over? | 10
  38. Why there's no email address portability like with phone numbers? | 31
  39. Is this policy common for large off shored IT consultancies | 18
  40. My hit game has been ripped off more than 50 times in less than a week | 2
  41. Is it possible to start an AI product without venture capital? | 12
  42. Little or even unknown website that you like to use? | 21
  43. Have any of you switched away from Dropbox? | 14
  44. What browser would you recommend in 2025 | 8
  45. Concerns around knowledge loss from vibe coding? | 16
  46. How long before the machines print their own Terminators? | 4
  47. Has anyone tried building tools without coding? | 7
  48. ClickHouse acquires OSS observability tool HyperDX | 2
  49. Any editor with semantic, not syntax, highlighting? | 7
  50. I got fired for being too productive–so I built the DOGE for engineering teams | 15
  51. Recommendations for a non-US cloud option | 1
  52. Is it just me, or is the entire internet half broken? | 3
  53. Reddit became a hot mess of errors and account bans for no reason | 6
  54. The future of MCP in agentic environments? | 3
  55. The next step in data and AI integration? | 2
  56. I solved the task with Claude 3.7 and got rejected by an AI startup | 5
  57. I bought a website, how do I edit it? | 12
  58. Should I Make the Pivot to Cybersecurity or Grow as a Software Engineer? | 5
  59. Are Doge, Gundo Defense Companies and Defund Ukraine Meant to Co-Exist | 4
  60. My web game went viral – am I in trouble? | 3
  61. Which Search Engine do you use? | 12
  62. Agent Experience – Weaviate Podcast #116 | 2
  63. Duolingo is fun, but does it make you fluent? | 7
  64. Did you ever rewrite big pieces of code without management knowing? | 2
  65. Do you feel we've hit a point of diminishing returns on software? | 3
  66. Making the Internet the Web Again | 16
  67. We Built AI Agents That Replace Outsourcing Firms (Live with 25 Companies) | 4
  68. Apple shareholders just rejected a proposal to end DEI efforts | 0
  69. Is X.com's (Twitter) Tor Broken? | 1
  70. Skype alternative? | 3
  71. Has spam email gone up exponentially in the past week? | 0
  72. If AI is so powerful, why can't it solve Ukraine-Russia conflict? | 6
  73. Why is database support in every language bad? | 8
  74. Which offer should I take - 18 years old. | 10
  75. Tell HN: The most recent Chrome update seems to have deleted all my passwords | 1
  76. Is AI replacing any software jobs? | 3
  77. Snowflake Launches AI Hub space for startups | 0
  78. Solo devs, where do you find others to talk about your projects with? | 2
  79. How can I get 5M USD for Trump golden visa? | 3
  80. Job security of app vs. embedded software devs in the next 5-10 years? | 1
  81. Which resources would you recommend on software mentorship? | 2
  82. Hype on X with AI Built Games (vibe-coded) | 0
  83. Clear, Open E-Reader? | 5
  84. Any insightful historical books on the impact of automation? | 3
  85. Tell HN: GenAI companies stopped gatekeeping product access | 2
  86. What Happened to This Post? | 4
  87. 60 Hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity? | 5
  88. Who is the best developer you know on Hacker News? | 5
  89. Any truly multi-modal transformer architectures? | 3
  90. How do you validate hosting providers for PCI-DSS 4.0 compliance? | 4
  91. What email client are you using? | 12
  92. Any advice for success you would give to a Software Developer intern? | 10
  93. How to make a good impression shadowing a senior dev for an afternoon | 3
  94. Local (LAN) email server for homelab? | 5
  95. What calculator are you using in 2025? | 9
  96. Docker Registry Outage | 3
  97. Why do people hate TypeScript? | 7
  98. Are the Best Shunning AI? | 4
  99. Without copyright there is no IP? | 3
  100. How do you get app/software ideas? | 5