Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Share your AI prompt that stumps every model | 621
  2. My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do? | 113
  3. What are you working on? (April 2025) | 159
  4. CS degrees, do they matter again? | 108
  5. Has anyone else found Google's AI overview to be oddly error prone? | 38
  6. Did someone dig into the JFK files? | 17
  7. I am at a loss. What shall I do? | 23
  8. Memory-safe low level languages? | 80
  9. Where are people sharing their blogs these days? | 24
  10. Are you finding it harder to enter the US in the last couple of months? | 19
  11. I want to work for an entrepreneur who has awakened spiritually | 18
  12. Why do we celebrate AI-Copilots but reject AI–Generated art? | 64
  13. Could we possibly be the last generation of programmers? | 15
  14. Cheapest way to host a back end | 34
  15. Lessons Learned Writing a Book Collaboratively with LLMs | 8
  16. Proposal: Cookie Consent Should Be Browser-Native, Not Website-Native | 12
  17. Frustrated at Young Programmers | 15
  18. Not worried about AI taking our jobs; worried it won't take our current jobs | 18
  19. What If Hacker News Was a Spreadsheet? | 0
  20. Is Basecamp Good? | 12
  21. Privacy folks – what's your take on using LLMs at work? | 20
  22. Can vibe coding competitions be challenging and fair? | 9
  23. What Is a Skill You're Glad You Learnt Outside of Work? | 16
  24. What Programming Skills Will Still Matter in 10 Years? | 21
  25. AI agent creation using screen recording and MCPs | 0
  26. What Tools Did You Build for Yourself? | 5
  27. VC Funds Struggling | 12
  28. Thoughts on an AI agent that must make money to stay alive? | 17
  29. Has anyone else noticed a recent sentiment shift on HN? | 19
  30. Has anyone used Riak? Thoughts? | 14
  31. Running WebAssembly with containerd, crun, and WasmEdge on Kubernetes | 0
  32. The EdTech Chicken and Egg Problem | 7
  33. Best audiobooks you've listened to recently? (Cosmic horror/non-fiction) | 11
  34. What is bad about Homebrew? | 9
  35. Were early stage products always so buggy? | 15
  36. Major Concern – Google Gemini 2.5 Research Preview | 1
  37. What is the most paranormal/supernatural thing you believe? | 6
  38. Sold my company, parents passed away – feeling lost. What now? | 10
  39. Why so many companies reducing middle management recently? | 13
  40. Open Sourcing our Startup – AI-powered avatars (UE 5.2) | 1
  41. Where Is PragmaticPulp? | 0
  42. Is Apple's Self-Repair Program Real? | 0
  43. Why a Indian Satoshi Makes More Sense Than You Think | 5
  44. Is politeness towards LLMs good training data, or just expensive noise? | 12
  45. Vibe Coding: The Infrastructure Problem | 3
  46. Where to Find First Users? | 15
  47. Three tools convert APIs to MCP | 1
  48. How do you ensure you don't get locked from your email? | 8
  49. Ways from the EU to the USA | 23
  50. Which IT certifications have the highest failure rate and why? | 8
  51. What are you building with the new OpenAI image-gen API? | 7
  52. Is there a decent configuration format? | 1
  53. How do you manage multiple Git profiles (GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket)? | 5
  54. Qt style "Signals and Slots" based JavaScript UI library? | 4
  55. Can't publish on the Play Store without a physical office? | 10
  56. Why does OpenAI require an ID to use their image API? | 2
  57. GPT Code Viewer – Collaborate with ChatGPT on local code (no API keys) | 2
  58. If AI is intelligent, why do we still need programming? | 4
  59. Which LLM to consult about LLM's? | 5
  60. Should I open source or not? | 19
  61. Data Partitioning in Apache Iceberg, demo time | 2
  62. Looking for Feedback for Hardware Server Security | 8
  63. Software is rapidly being commoditized | 4
  64. What is going on with cloudflare? | 0
  65. What tools are you using to manage a shared enterprise prompt library? | 0
  66. Google Gemini knows your location | 2
  67. Is there any programming language that doesn't have WTFs? | 6
  68. Do you use glasses to protect your eyes from the screen reflection? | 5
  69. AI Paying with Bitcoin and Lightning – A Working Demo | 1
  70. Tell HN: Llama on WhatsApp will never delete your messages | 1
  71. One Ingredient for Better Health? | 16
  72. Trump's return affecting freelance work? | 1
  73. OpenAI models vs. Gemini 2.5 Pro for coding and swe | 5
  74. Low Effort but Useful Activities | 15
  75. Do Not Train" Meta Tags: The Robots.txt of AI – Will Anyone Respect Them? | 7
  76. How are you managing your prompts? | 8
  77. We're running 50 LLMs on 2 GPUs – no cold starts, no overprovisioning | 1
  78. How do you get traffic for your pre-product launches? | 0
  79. What Have You Replaced with AI? | 4
  80. What tiny LLMs are you getting the best results from? | 1
  81. Anyone scaling ArgoCD across multiple clusters? | 2
  82. Stopping Gmail-Originated Spam? | 0
  83. What happened to MMORPGs and internet cafes? | 3
  84. Looking for a past post about heart cell excitation | 2
  85. What are some life principles/theories/frameworks/hacks you live by? | 2
  86. How do you manage life after job loss? | 0
  87. How Do You Write? | 4
  88. Why can't devs make collaboration apps that are client native? | 5
  89. How do you retain both technical and domain knowledge long-term? | 2
  90. Where does your development time go? | 5
  91. Site turns your bad drawing into a real app for free | 8
  92. What are you currently trying to figure out? | 9
  93. Captcha idea: Ask visitors which direction a optical illusion is "moving" | 4
  94. What non-existent app or tool would you pay for right now? | 6
  95. How is it possible that HN is free of SPAM? | 5
  96. Anyone using LLMs as coach or therapist? | 6
  97. What's Everyone Using These Days for a Desktop Chat App? | 8
  98. Should I Take a Risk? | 11
  99. Bitcoin mining as an alternative to ad revenue | 14
  100. How to incentivize my Eng team to update tasks after daily standups? | 13