Ask HN ranking for the past week

  1. Books about people who did hard things | 408
  2. Favorite blog in 2024? | 86
  3. A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked? | 339
  4. Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena | 106
  5. How do you backup your Android? | 215
  6. How to approach first days on a new job as a senior engineer? | 61
  7. Spending Tracking Tools | 108
  8. How can I learn to better command people's attention when speaking? | 92
  9. Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work? | 68
  10. Work on robotics or agents? | 60
  11. What sub $200 product improved your 2024 | 97
  12. CTO / cofounder exit deal after 1.5y at 600k revenue without SHA | 69
  13. Pull the curtain back on Nvidia's CES keynote please | 7
  14. Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD? | 91
  15. Open-source AI Agents building platform? | 6
  16. My 12 year-old nephew just got diagnosed with ADHD, any advice? | 75
  17. Can we stop with the political posts? | 22
  18. If I want to compose my own music, how can I get started? | 19
  19. How do non-software engineers feel upon reflection, about their degrees? | 38
  20. What is the Most "Impressive" Person you know working on? | 11
  21. What do you look for in a work monitor? | 42
  22. Tell HN: The Quiet Collapse of US Defense Research Infrastructure | 19
  23. Did AI make you a worse programmer? | 12
  24. Is Proton Mail Down? | 13
  25. Why do/don't you use C? | 35
  26. GitHub Experiencing Major Outages | 9
  27. What are some (weird) ways you're using ChatGPT? | 25
  28. How Do You Bookmark? | 27
  29. Why haven't we progressed in Consumer Robots? | 9
  30. How does my ISP know I am making a WhatsApp call? | 8
  31. I Need Help | 3
  32. Has Musk "lost the plot"? | 16
  33. Are you on Bluesky or Mastodon? | 14
  34. How to correctly search for jobs on LinkedIn? | 5
  35. Is This Good Bye? | 1
  36. Who is accountable for cloud costs in your org? | 19
  37. Tell HN: cd // Is Special | 2
  38. Have you considered outsourcing your side projects? | 4
  39. Why it is difficult to copy strings from web pages? | 7
  40. What are your 90% / 50% / 10% predictions for 2025 and beyond? | 5
  41. How are you reading (nonfiction) books/pdfs in 2025? | 20
  42. How Do Google Willow's Results Affect Quantum Computing Timelines? | 2
  43. What a world to live in, Anti Consumer is trend and Pro consumer is niche | 0
  44. WinGet is not the way forward | 0
  45. An invoicing platform specifically for Freelancers | 13
  46. Lifetime access plans are (mostly) a hoax | 2
  47. Tell HN: macOS is currently detecting Docker as malware | 1
  48. Why Are You Here? | 9
  49. Are there web-of-trust style online communities? | 6
  50. Canadians on TN visas in the US should prepare | 1
  51. Where to download a 1px GIF or "hack" the source code of Paul Graham's homepage | 5
  52. What cloud development tool would you like to see? | 0
  53. Predicting good news using regulatory disclosure patterns, Python, SEC | 2
  54. CES 2025: A Glimpse into the Future of Tech | 4
  55. I'm a dev who never wants to be on call again. What are my best options? | 4
  56. Tell HN: Software people are quite interesting | 6
  57. Is there life after FAANG? | 8
  58. The internet was a tough sell. What's a similar technology today? | 7
  59. An oddly accurate description of AI by H.P. Lovecraft | 2
  60. Do you prefer working as a solo developer or as part of a team? | 31
  61. How do you remotely monitor cognitive performance in the eldery? | 8
  62. What Process/Applications Do You Use for Todo/Knowledge Management? | 8
  63. Tell HN: Create an "in case of my death" document | 3
  64. How to keep Chinese crawlers from taking down my site? | 14
  65. How would you improve job search? | 12
  66. What do you hate about Salesforce? | 7
  67. What is Elon Musk's world view? | 13
  68. Could 20 tier 1 developers build a billion dollar company in 5 years? | 8
  69. What's with the random Wikipedia links in new | 5
  70. MIT License, but you can't sue me later | 4
  71. Why don't companies make applicants pay a fee to apply to a job? | 31
  72. What's Your Layoff Story? | 0
  73. What are the biggest PITAs about managing VMs and containers? | 9
  74. Opening Google Meet on Firefox slows down the entire browser | 6
  75. Document.designMode = "On"; | 0
  76. What to use for desktop apps for Windows or Mac? | 16
  77. HTTP/2 Flow Control Deadlock | 0
  78. "can't live without" AI tool stack? | 2
  79. I'm a Programmer Who Bought a Typewriter | 9
  80. What's your top-tier reading with well-written humor? | 3
  81. Tell HN: Sometimes you guys seem from another world | 1
  82. 10k in organic course sales, now what? | 2
  83. How did you meet your significant other | 1
  84. Fully Featured Invoicing Platform for Freelancers | 1
  85. Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account | 1
  86. What is your money-making side project outside programming? 2025 edition | 2
  87. Are people downloading YouTube videos server-side | 4
  88. $9k for a mobile MVP (instead of $50k) – Should I raise my prices? | 1
  89. Freelance How? | 1
  90. I Want to Build a Scalable IT Solution for Free in 2 Months as My Exam Project | 1
  91. Tell HN: ChatGPT can't show you a 5.25" floppy disk | 3
  92. Can you recommend blogs of those with ADHD? | 1
  93. Is it a good idea to start a company that competes with the one I currently work | 9
  94. YC's take on Solo Founders?(See below.) | 8
  95. How do I adapt to AI? | 11
  96. Tell HN: I found 4 gaming PCs including GTX1080, GTX2070Super and 2 RTX3060's | 0
  97. I Built a Movie Streaming Site in 2 Days | 2
  98. Why do you work in a startup? | 10
  99. Is HN a right place for links to handmade web? | 4
  100. How do you filter the Pres-elect's gish gallop? | 4