Best Nodes of the Day, Week, Month, and Year

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Best Nodes of The Day

# Node Author Rep
1 Re^3: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller marto 14
2 Re: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller marto 14
3 Re: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller Corion 12
4 Re: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller LanX 9
5 Re^4: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller LanX 8
6 Re^2: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller dmitri 7
7 Re^2: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller LanX 7
As of May 01, 2026 at 05:03 UTC, Next refresh in 30 mins ±15 min

Best Nodes of The Week

# Node Author Rep
1 Moving the site behind a CDN Co-Rion 33
2 Re: Moving the site behind a CDN hippo 24
3 Re: Interpolate variable into regexp at time of definition rather than execution, as a filter for Path::Iterator::Rule ikegami 22
4 Re: Moving the site behind a CDN marto 22
5 Re: Moving the site behind a CDN roho 21
6 Re: parentheses missing in action Corion 20
7 Re: Where are the perldelta files for development releases? Corion 19
8 Re: Perl Inheritance Not Working as Expected Fletch 18
9 Re: Interpolate variable into regexp at time of definition rather than execution, as a filter for Path::Iterator::Rule (updated) LanX 18
10 Re: Installation of 2 module prerequisites failing - using cpanm tobyink 17
As of May 01, 2026 at 05:07 UTC, Next refresh in 3 hours and 30 mins ±15 min

Best Nodes of The Month

# Node Author Rep
1 Moving the site behind a CDN Co-Rion 32
2 Re: Reusing a complex regexp in multiple spots, escaping the regexp haukex 29
3 Re: Modern Subroutine Signature Requires Perl Version dave_the_m 27
4 Re: Modern Subroutine Signature Requires Perl Version Corion 27
5 Re: Modern Subroutine Signature Requires Perl Version haj 26
6 Re: Modern Subroutine Signature Requires Perl Version Haarg 24
7 Re: Moving the site behind a CDN hippo 23
8 Re: Interpolate variable into regexp at time of definition rather than execution, as a filter for Path::Iterator::Rule ikegami 22
9 Re: Moving the site behind a CDN marto 21
10 Re: Reusing a complex regexp in multiple spots, escaping the regexp ikegami 21
As of Apr 30, 2026 at 06:51 UTC, Next refresh in 1 hour and 15 mins ±15 min

Best Nodes of The Year

# Node Author Rep
1 Re: Perl Best Practices -- 20 years later choroba 49
2 It's been a year davido 39
3 RIP Matt S. Trout LanX 39
4 Perl Best Practices -- 20 years later pfaut 38
5 Re: Perl hashes and non-determinism hippo 37
6 Selected parts of the site are now static for Anonymous Monks Co-Rion 36
7 Perl v5.42.0 is now available! choroba 36
8 Re: Using system sort order Arunbear 35
9 Re: Basic question about Iterator code choroba 35
10 On improving Perlmonks site availability Co-Rion 34
11 Re: [XS] sv_setpv change in behaviour with perl-5.42.0 and later dave_the_m 34
12 Re: Try::Tiny and -E haukex 34
13 Re: How to set the UTF8 flag? ysth 34
14 Re: how portable is the random number generator? haukex 33
15 Re: How to set the UTF8 flag? NERDVANA 33
16 Re: Is it possible load optional modules from PERL5OPT? jo37 33
17 Re: Speed comparison of foreach vs grep + map Corion 33
18 Re: Perl Best Practices -- 20 years later swl 33
19 Moving the site behind a CDN Co-Rion 32
20 Re: unpack Binary FAIL ikegami 32
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