Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Share your personal website | 2319
  2. How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? | 1190
  3. How are you doing RAG locally? | 152
  4. The $LANG Programming Language | 69
  5. What are you working on? (January 2026) | 874
  6. What did you find out or explore today? | 396
  7. Weird archive.today behavior? | 67
  8. ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas? | 145
  9. Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient? | 99
  10. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today | 6
  11. How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access? | 105
  12. Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant | 70
  13. What are your best purchases under $100? | 222
  14. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update | 48
  15. What is the best way to provide continuous context to models? | 43
  16. Is it still worth pursuing a software startup? | 48
  17. Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan? | 82
  18. One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website | 24
  19. How to make my website exist for 100 years? | 68
  20. Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work? | 11
  21. Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming | 31
  22. Claude Opus performance affected by time of day? | 32
  23. Anyone else finding it impossible to land a job? | 22
  24. If you had $10M in the bank, would you still show up to your job? | 98
  25. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind | 38
  26. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down | 17
  27. Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers? | 9
  28. Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables | 20
  29. Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish | 11
  30. Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization | 5
  31. Job seekers, what's working / not working? | 18
  32. Is Programming as a Profession Cooked? | 32
  33. Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters? | 49
  34. 500 citation MSc CS, stuck in a low-trust region. How to move forward? | 12
  35. GitHub Is Down | 16
  36. AI music covers in 2026? | 9
  37. Is "AI vibe coding" making prototyping worse inside real companies? | 5
  38. Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife | 17
  39. Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code? | 13
  40. What was the best sci-fi book of 2025? | 1
  41. Tell HN: Execution is cheap, ideas matter again | 6
  42. When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you? | 15
  43. Trying to find a website featured on HN that listed restaurants in NYC | 1
  44. Google's Universal Commerce Protocol aims to make shopping AI-native | 15
  45. X Is Down | 4
  46. How to make spamming us uncomfortable for LinkedIn and friends? | 7
  47. YC Cofounder Matching inbox stuck in infinite loading loop – anyone else? | 3
  48. Those who quit tech, moved back home, what do you do? | 5
  49. Where is all the protest music? | 22
  50. What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly? | 16
  51. Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform? | 10
  52. What to teach my kid if AI does math and CS? | 21
  53. Why is example.com using Cloudflare | 3
  54. How do you realistically prepare for retirement while working in tech? | 22
  55. How do you automate your release notes? | 15
  56. Tell HN: I Downgraded from macOS Tahoe to Sequoia | 6
  57. Gh Account Permabanned – Help? | 10
  58. Thoughts on maintaining anonymity against state-level actors? | 3
  59. Ericsson Doing Quiet Layoffs | 0
  60. Tell HN: The way I do simple data management for new prototypes | 5
  61. Why do AI code editors suck at closing tags? | 4
  62. What is your opinion on workplace review websites like Glassdoor? | 2
  63. How to search Remote-from-Anywhere jobs | 4
  64. Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts | 10
  65. Why did forum culture die? | 5
  66. Phind Is Shutting Down | 3
  67. Best setup for Golang HTTP API development in 2026? | 1
  68. How have you or your firm made money with LLMs? | 7
  69. Iran has now been offline for 100 hours. What can we "technically" do? | 13
  70. Tell HN: A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer | 6
  71. At the phase 'build a startup cause I can't get hired, and maybe I'll get hired' | 1
  72. Moved to SF to build a startup. What next? | 4
  73. Any evidence AI coding assistants are helping open source projects? | 0
  74. How can you instantly tell something was written by AI? | 9
  75. macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6 | 7
  76. Are diffs still useful for AI-assisted code changes? | 16
  77. Are you underutilizing your insurance too? | 5
  78. Erratic HN front page algorithm | 4
  79. Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption? | 3
  80. Claude is down – Jan 14th 2026 | 0
  81. Estimating % of dev using coding assistants | 7
  82. Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine | 3
  83. Tell HN: Mattermost "upgrade" to v11 enforces 10k UI message limit | 3
  84. Cursor vs. antigravity after a week of real use | 0
  85. Do you trust Sam Altman? | 4
  86. Cheaper Datadog anyone? | 11
  87. Strangest or most unexpected behavior you've seen from GitHub Copilot? | 3
  88. Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls? | 1
  89. Any real prompt injections in the wild? | 3
  90. I skipped Japan's university exam to write a "computational metaphysics" exam | 4
  91. How to find gaps and oppurtunities in the AI era? | 5
  92. What made you move back to HTML-to-PDF in production? | 7
  93. What frustrates you most about personal finance apps? | 2
  94. Does anyone else think that humanoid robots is a bubble? | 9
  95. Is Codex login down for all workspace (non-personal) users? | 2
  96. Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS? | 5
  97. What makes someone hate their job? | 15
  98. What business processes still waste time every week? | 10
  99. Why are so many images now in unusual file formats? | 7
  100. Has macOS Tahoe been fixed enough to update to? | 5