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2026-07-12 08:00:00

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

• Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
  
• Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
  
• Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
  
• Tell HN: Who wants to be hired\" posts outpace \"Who's hiring\" 2 to 1
  
• Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
  
• Ask HN: Another \"Hacker News\" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?
  
• Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
  
• Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
  
• Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number
  
• Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?
  

2026-07-05 08:00:00

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

• Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
  
• We need tech news sources which exclude AI
  
• Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
  
• Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
  
• Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Why are so many \"AI evangelists\" posting such insufferable content?
  
• AI coding is a nightmare. Am I the only one experiencing this?
  
• Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
  

2026-06-28 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending June 27, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?
  
• Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day
  
• Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source
  
• Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
  
• Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
  
• Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
  
• Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs
  
• Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
  
• Ask HN: Is \"no source code was copied\" still a sufficient copyright defense?
  
• The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
  

2026-06-21 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending June 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
  
• Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?
  
• I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
  
• Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x
  
• Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
  
• Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
  
• Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
  
• Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
  
• Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?
  

2026-06-14 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending June 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
  
• Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
  
• Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
  
• Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
  
• AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
  
• Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
  
• Notes on DeepSeek
  
• I'm Eric Ries, author of \"The Lean Startup\" and new book \"Incorruptible\" – AMA
  
• Tell HN: Meta is down
  
• Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?
  

2026-06-07 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending June 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware?
  
• Tell HN: Meta's AI support feature allows Instagram accounts to be stolen
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
  
• Life saving / first aid posters
  
• Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
  
• Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook \"localhost\" tracking?
  
• Ask HN: What was your \"oh shit\" moment with GenAI?
  
• Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
  
• Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?