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2026-08-02 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student?
  
• BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman
  
• The Author of Clean Code No Longer Reviews AI-Generated Code
  
• Internet is no longer accessible?
  
• Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support
  
• Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?
  
• Ask HN: Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items?
  
• Ask HN: My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed]
  
• Ask HN: Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science?
  
• Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
  

2026-07-26 08:00:00

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

• Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
  
• Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI?
  
• Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login
  
• Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?
  
• Ask HN: How do people keep track of organizational knowledge?
  
• Ask HN: What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)?
  
• Ask HN: If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted?
  
• Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?
  
• Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
  
• Ask HN: What livestream do you keep open in a tab?
  

2026-07-19 08:00:00

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

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
  
• LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft
  
• Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
  
• AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
  
• Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B
  
• Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars
  
• Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
  
• Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
  
• LG ThinQ Terms of Use
  

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