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2025-04-20 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending April 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Does any one know if Firebase is a successful from Google's perspective?
  
• Ask HN: What's a surprisingly useful tech skill that's underrated today?
  
• Ask HN: Magic links are bad UX and make people's lives worse. Change my mind
  
• Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025?
  
• Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?
  
• 4chan has been hacked, Database exposed
  
• Zoom Is Down?
  
• Ask HN: I'm a Harvard researcher. Everything is gone
  
• Ask HN: I feel pessimistic about the future – advice?
  
• Ask HN: How to get my development passion/productivity back?
  

2025-04-13 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending April 12, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends
  
• Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?
  
• Ask HN: How will the tariffs affect investor funding?
  
• Ask HN: Where do you reliably find worldwide remote jobs?
  
• Ask HN: Why is uptalk intonation so prevalent in ChatGPT voices?
  
• Are .NET 4.x and JDK 8.x the \"zombie\" runtimes of enterprise software?
  
• RAG Without Vectors – Reasoning-Based RAG using PageIndex
  
• Ask HN: What made your favorite manager so great?
  
• Ask HN: Has anyone quit their startup (VC-backed) over cofounder disagreements?
  
• Ask HN: How do you monetize personal code if it's not an \"app\"?
  

2025-04-06 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending April 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Finding Remote Enterprise SW Consulting Leads: Non-US Resident Edition
  
• Ask HN: What's the best way to get started with LLM-assisted programing?
  
• Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
  
• Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare)
  
• Corey Booker breaks Senate floor speech record
  
• Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
  
• Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?
  

2025-03-30 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending March 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What kind of whiteboard does not use dry erase markers?
  
• Ask HN: Have you ever been hired because of open-source contributions?
  
• Recommendation for non-DOS/Unix open source OS outside x86/X64
  
• Ask HN: Difficulties with going back to school
  
• Ask HN: Should I leave the company I co-founded?
  
• Ask HN: can Wireless-CarPlay dongles steal your data?
  
• Ask HN: Is Washington Post correct in saying Signal is unsecure?
  
• Ask HN: What's the ideal stack for a solo dev in 2025
  
• Google is publishing the home addresses of developers without their consent
  
• Ask HN: Is anyone experiencing \"AI brain rot?\"
  

2025-03-23 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending March 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How to study for system design that doesn't include front end/back end?
  
• Nubmq: A high performant key-value store engine built from first principles
  
• Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained
  
• How I Stay Motivated Working on My Solo SaaS (When It Feels Like Nobody Cares)
  
• Ask HN: NSF Is Imploding – Thanks to Trump, Science Is Being Gutted
  
• Ask HN: How do I escape homelessness after rebuilding my mental health?
  
• Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
  
• Ask HN: Are you afraid to travel to US to tech conferences?
  
• Ask HN: What is the simplest data orchestration tool you've worked with?
  
• Ask HN: How should junior programmers use and/or not use AI for programming?
  

2025-03-16 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending March 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How do you handle VAT / Sales Tax accounting as B2C SaaS?
  
• Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?
  
• Ask HN: How do you have effective 1:1s with your manager?
  
• Ask HN: Would you fund Mozilla to become independent of Google?
  
• Ask HN: What do you use to create diagrams?
  
• Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work?
  
• Ask HN: Any jobs that don't force you to always be advancing career wise?
  
• I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
  
• Chrome for Android doesn't have extensions, but Edge now has a whole store
  
• Ask HN: How much traffic do you serve and with which database engine?