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2025-09-14 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Why does Google word privacy settings like you agree even when off?
  
• If AI agents take the jobs, who buys the stuff?
  
• Ask HN: Good resources for DIY-ish animatronic kits for Halloween?
  
• Does anyone think the current AI approach will hit a dead end?
  
• Plex Update: Notice of a potential security incident
  
• Nepal Prime Minister Resigns. Parliament / Ministires set on Fire.
  
• My Workflow Is 70% AI, 20% Copy-Paste, 10% Panic. What's Yours?
  
• Ask HN: Has the Gaza war affected the HN crowd?
  
• Google Doesn't Rank My Site for My Own Brand Name
  
• Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser
  

2025-09-07 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation
  
• Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling
  
• Tell HN: Use \"-f**k\" to kill Google AI Overview
  
• Ask HN: Do custom ROMs exist for electric cars, for example Teslas?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Is your company still hiring junior engineers?
  
• Tell HN: I kinda want to go back to Java
  
• Ask HN: Gandi is holding my domain hostage. What can I do?
  
• Is Google Down? - EU networking issue
  

2025-08-31 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Best codebases to study to learn software design?
  
• Ask HN: How can I recover and run my old mobile game from the 2010s?
  
• Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?
  
• Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads?
  
• Ask HN: What to learn for math for modeling?
  
• Ask HN: Did modern AI's coding abilities make you lose interest in programming?
  
• Ask HN: GitHub Copilot down?
  
• Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps
  
• Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
  
• Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired
  

2025-08-24 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Why Is My Happiness Tied to My Productivity?
  
• Ask HN: Tell me about the best programmer you worked with
  
• My First $500 MRR – My thoughts and learnings
  
• What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them?
  
• Ask HN: Have any successful startups been made by 'vibe coding'?
  
• Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent
  
• Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
  
• Ask HN: Is Kubernetes still a big no-no for early stages in 2025?
  
• Ask HN: If technology is so good for the world, why are we becoming less happy?
  
• Ask HN: How do you find early stage startups to join
  

2025-08-17 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• GPT-5 streaming requires submission of biometric data
  
• ChatGPT 5 is slow and no better than 4
  
• Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?
  
• Ask HN: What alternatives to GitHub are you using?
  
• VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project
  
• F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs
  
• Ask HN: Is the rise of AI tools going to be the next 'dot com' bust?
  
• Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?
  
• What makes you still work for Meta, when it's clear how toxic the company is?
  
• Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
  

2025-08-10 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Tell HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be
  
• Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?
  
• Tell HN: I'm tired of formulaic, \"LLM house style\" show HN submissions
  
• Ask HN: Has any of the Pivotal Tracker replacement attempts succeeded?
  
• Ask HN: What change enabled you to consistently finish your side projects?
  
• Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?
  
• Tell HN: Anthropic expires paid credits after a year
  
• Ask HN: Do you struggle with flow state when using AI assisted coding tools?
  
• Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
  
• Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?