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2026-09-13 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 12, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
  
• Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
  
• Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
  
• Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
  
• Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
  
• I'm going back to coding by hand
  
• DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
  
• Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?
  
• Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
  
• Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
  

2026-09-06 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Why do I lose my passion and want to do nothing?
  
• Tell HN: Dropbox Data Breach
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
  
• Ask HN: How do you survive a job you hate which is slowly making you sick?
  
• Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
  
• Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?
  
• Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
  
• Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
  
• Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
  

2026-08-30 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 29, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Coding Agents killed my identity. How do you feel?
  
• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
  
• Ask HN: Why do corporate failures always seem to punish the wrong people?
  
• Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?
  
• XCancel also down, at least for time being
  
• XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp
  
• Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
  
• Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down
  
• Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products
  
• Tell HN: Man, AI is killing my brain
  

2026-08-23 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
  
• Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
  
• Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
  
• Claude Seems Down
  
• Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance
  
• GitHub down again? no PR access
  
• Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
  
• Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
  
• Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?
  
• Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week
  

2026-08-16 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
  
• Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?
  
• Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?
  
• Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
  
• SETI@Home was the coolest thing
  
• Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login
  
• Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026?
  
• Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
  
• Alternative to Internet Archive
  

2026-08-09 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply
  
• Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is quitting? (August 2026)
  
• How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated?
  
• Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
  
• Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
  
• DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
  
• Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there?