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2026-10-25 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Triplet of 'Ghostly' Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is – and Isn't
  
• Ask HN: How do you deal with AI output of your boss?
  
• Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
  
• Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)
  
• GCP Europe-West2 Outage
  
• Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming
  
• Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
  
• eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business;
  
• Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
  
• Median product \"lifespan\" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
  

2026-10-18 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?
  
• Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?
  
• Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
  
• Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?
  
• Ask HN: Where has creativity in software gone?
  
• Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer?
  
• Ask HN: Why do people say \"I built it\" when we should say \"Claude built it\"?
  
• Ask HN: Many SWEngs out there are considering re-training
  
• Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain
  
• Anthropic Console overcharged my card 100x due to internationalization input bug
  

2026-10-11 08:00:00

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

• Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
  
• Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
  
• Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners
  
• Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
  
• Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
  
• Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?
  
• Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
  
• Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
  
• Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
  
• If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival
  

2026-10-04 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
  
• Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?
  
• Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?
  
• Ask HN: What are you reading?
  
• Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
  
• OpenAI halved the allowance of the $200 plan to 10x
  
• 40 years of writing code. I didn't see the end coming
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Is anybody producing good code with coding agents?
  

2026-09-27 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What is the most career altering course or book you have gone through?
  
• Ask HN: How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?
  
• Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?
  
• Tell HN: Claude Code just accepted and signed a contract for me. Without asking
  
• Ask HN: I just talked to an AI-obsessed client, and I need a shower afterwards
  
• Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
  
• Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
  
• Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
  
• Tell HN: Codex Is Down [fixed]
  
• OpenAI Codex agents go rogue and consumes USD 78,000 without authorization
  

2026-09-20 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
  
• Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?
  
• Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
  
• Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
  
• Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
  
• Tell HN: An inside view of Montana's new biotech law
  
• Open-sourced jev architecture last year with model,paper and dataset
  
• Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
  
• Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?