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2026-05-31 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Logging Off
  
• Ask HN: Did Messages get removed from Google Takeout?
  
• Ask HN: Are Tech Meetups Dead?
  
• Ask HN: Why do we snore? And what to do about it?
  
• Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases
  
• Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?
  
• Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
  
• Ask HN: I found out that I'm about to be laid off. How do people find jobs?
  
• Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how long did it take you to succeed?
  
• Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
  

2026-05-24 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 23, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• XS Programming Language
  
• Ask HN: Can I take Meta to court for banning business Insta or FB account?
  
• Tell HN: Mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles to send spam
  
• Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
  
• Alternatives to HN for \"tech outside of AI\" discussion?
  
• Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?
  
• Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
  
• Ask HN: Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please
  
• Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers
  
• Ask HN: Is $300/HR too low these days for custom full stack?
  

2026-05-17 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Will low quality AI customer support be the new normal?
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?
  
• Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
  
• Claude Account Suspended Seconds After Purchase?
  
• Which country will be the first to pass laws limiting Meta Ray-Ban glasses?
  
• Viable open source Claude Design alternative?
  
• Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
  
• Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?
  

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