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2026-05-10 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Anyone feel like they're just opting out of tech these days?
  
• Claude.ai down again?
  
• Tell HN: The saddest irony of my/our craft
  
• Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
  
• Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026)
  
• Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
  
• Ask HN: Is anyone seriously considering a career change?
  
• Time to add option in Hacker News \"AI excluded Show HN\"
  
• Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?
  
• Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
  

2026-05-03 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?
  
• Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
  
• Scraping 241 UK council planning portals – 2.6M decisions so far
  
• Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
  
• Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
  
• I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
  

2026-04-26 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending April 25, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.
  
• Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
  
• Recommended GPU Repairshop in Europe (Germany)
  
• Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
  
• Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?
  
• Anthropic bans orgs without warning
  
• Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything
  
• Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work
  
• Ask HN: Am I getting old, or is working with AI juniors becoming a nightmare?
  
• Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
  

2026-04-19 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending April 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors
  
• Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
  
• Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT
  
• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
  
• Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture
  
• Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
  
• Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
  
• Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
  
• Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?
  
• Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware
  

2026-04-12 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending April 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Academic study on AI's impact on software development – want to join?
  
• Ask HN: Is there any interest in a native Qt/C++ Discord client?
  
• Write Your Own Copy
  
• Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
  
• Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM
  
• Claude Code Down
  
• Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different
  
• Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?
  
• Hybrid Attention
  
• Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
  

2026-04-05 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending April 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
  
• Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements
  
• Tell HN: Chrome says \"suspicious download\" when trying to download yt-dlp
  
• Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
  
• Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
  
• Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165
  
• Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?
  
• Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw