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2024-05-19 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 18, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Data showing the 2024 tech job market is far stronger than 2023
  
• Ask HN: Anyone working on something better than LLMs?
  
• Why does 30 feel like a deadline?
  
• Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do you manage your code?
  
• Ask HN: Disillusioned after AI?
  
• Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?
  
• Ask HN: What is the most productive stack or lang for single devs ?
  
• Ask HN: SaaS Subscription or Usage-Based Pricing?
  
• Ask HN: Best way for a Markdown based blog and eBook?
  
• Ask HN: Should we stop posting X links on HN?
  

2024-05-12 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 11, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: 4chan Archives Pre-2008?
  
• Ask HN: Guidelines for making clear architecture diagrams
  
• Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?
  
• Tell HN: A note of gratitude to the people providing answers over here
  
• Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
  
• Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
  
• Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?
  
• Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?
  
• Ask HN: Seeking ideas for preschool/school projects
  
• I'm puzzled how anyone trusts ChatGPT for code
  

2024-05-05 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 04, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Anyone else depressed by the relentless monetization and spying?
  
• Tell HN: I think there are major issues with Google –> Squarespace domains
  
• Ask HN: What's the best charting library for customer-facing dashboards?
  
• Ask HN: How to handle user file uploads?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)
  
• Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2024)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
  
• Ask HN: Modern day equivalent to HyperCard?
  
• Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?
  
• Ask HN: I have been unable to land a job in two years, does anybody
  

2024-04-28 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending April 27, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Is iCloud a viable alternative to Dropbox? Any other alternatives?
  
• Ask HN: Which books/resources to understand modern Assembler?
  
• Ask HN: Outstanding Programmers
  
• Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
  
• Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?
  
• Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
  
• Ask HN: How does deploying a fine-tuned model work
  
• AMA: I'm Dave Greene, an accidental expert on Conway's Game of Life
  
• Ask HN: Any fun ways to learn Emacs?
  
• Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware
  

2024-04-21 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending April 20, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Does it still matter to be in the Bay Area?
  
• Ask HN: Is RAG the Future of LLMs?
  
• Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?
  
• Ask HN: I want to create IMDB for open source projects
  
• Tell HN: We should snapshot a mostly AI output free version of the web
  
• Wayfair fired a bunch of people again today, after using them to train AI
  
• Ask HN: One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?
  
• Ask HN: How do you ask users about their pain point?
  
• Ask HN: High quality Python scripts or small libraries to learn from
  
• Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24
  

2024-04-14 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending April 13, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Most efficient way to fine-tune an LLM in 2024?
  
• Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
  
• Ask HN: What is the biggest thing you've changed your mind about?
  
• What is the most useful project you have worked on?
  
• Ask HN: SQLite in Production?
  
• How might software development have unfolded if CPU speeds were 20x slower?
  
• Ask HN: What resources to learn tech and software in manufacturing?
  
• Ask HN: How can I learn about manufacturing?
  
• I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
  
• Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone
  

2024-04-07 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending April 06, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
  
• Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
  
• Ask HN: Is anybody getting value from AI Agents? How so?
  
• Ask HN: What is the current (Apr. 2024) gold standard of running an LLM locally?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)
  
• 3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform WASM graphics engine
  
• Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?
  
• Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page?
  
• Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
  

2024-03-31 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending March 30, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How common is developer burnout? Have you ever been burnt out?
  
• Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server
  
• Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
  
• Ask HN: Startup Devs -What's your biggest pain while managing cloud deployments?
  
• Ask HN: What things are happening in ML that we can't hear over the din of LLMs?
  
• Ask HN: How hard is it to find a job after trying to start your own thing
  
• Ask HN: Who's getting their job applications rejected?
  
• Ask HN: How do I improve my emotional intelligence?
  
• Ask HN: How to secure website for public launch
  
• Ask HN: Anybody Using Htmx on the Job?
  

2024-03-24 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending March 23, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How to get started with local language models?
  
• Ask HN: If you've used GPT-4-Turbo and Claude Opus, which do you prefer?
  
• Ask HN: What's the best way to exit tech?
  
• Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?
  
• Ask HN: How to change jobs with almost no interviewing experience?
  
• Ask HN: How did you get yourself out of a rut?
  
• Ask HN: How is the Spotify app so bad?
  
• Ask HN: How to onboard yourself to a new product/industry in a new job?
  
• Ask HN: How to run an old-school mailing list?
  
• Ask HN: Success stories from McKinsey (et al.)
  

2024-03-17 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending March 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What are the best eBook authoring tools today?
  
• Ask HN: When will LLMs be able to interrupt or interject?
  
• Who uses Google TPUs for inference in production?
  
• Tell HN: NetworkSolutions.com lost the ability to update root DNS w/ custom DNS
  
• Ask HN: How do you optimize your focus?
  
• Ask HN: How much to charge for an API call?
  
• Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store
  
• Google asks me daily for my location to improve connectivity even if I say no
  
• Ask HN: How do you use AI for software engineering?
  
• Ask HN: Non-duopoly smart phone in Sweden?