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2024-11-17 08:00:00

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

• Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever
  
• Is 3D printing being held back by an invalid patent?
  
• YubiKey still selling old stock with vulnerable firmware
  
• Ask HN: Do you feel burnout from being less hands on as you become more senior?
  
• Ask HN: How has your experience been with a Snapdragon-based laptop?
  
• Ask HN: How to deal with a serious mental health breakdown?
  
• Ask HN: Bluesky is #1 in the U.S. App Store. Is this a first for open source?
  
• Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?
  
• Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?
  
• Ask HN: What open source projects need help?
  

2024-11-10 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending November 09, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?
  
• Ask HN: My director got fired. His rival is taking his place. What to expect?
  
• Any Indiehackers.com Alternatives
  
• Ask HN: How would you launch a privacy-first, Instagram-like social network?
  
• Has the market spoken? Time to pick up Golang and Rust?
  
• Ask HN: Why did consumer 3D printing take so long to be invented?
  
• Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)
  
• Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanning; I quit Telegram
  
• Ask HN: Best Cyber Warfare Books?
  
• Ask HN: What hacks/tips do you use to make AI work better for you?
  

2024-11-03 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending November 02, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Real-time speech-to-speech translation
  
• Tell HN: Robots.txt pitfalls – what I learned the hard way
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
  
• Ask HN: Local RAG with private knowledge base
  
• Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?
  
• Ask HN: What's your favorite text-based adventure game?
  
• Ask HN: Is patio11's salary negotiation guide relevant in today's market?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)
  
• Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN
  

2024-10-27 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 26, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How Many Hours Do You Code in a Day?
  
• Ask HN: In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts?
  
• Have You Wanted to Quit Social Media?
  
• Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?
  
• Ask HN: How to learn UI/UX as a data/BE engineer?
  
• Ask HN: What's your favorite YouTube video, ever?
  
• Ask HN: How to Learn 'To Think'?
  
• Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
  
• Ask HN: Is it wrong to use my personal laptop for work?
  
• Ask HN: Namecheap charged my card, didn't deliver, then upped the price
  

2024-10-20 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 19, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Do you track how your email address is used?
  
• Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?
  
• Happy Birthday to us KDE is 28 years old today
  
• Ask HN: Solopreneurs, how did you come up with your idea?
  
• Tell HN: DigitalRiver/MyCommerce stopped paying vendors since July
  
• Ask HN: Tips for hacking a TV?
  
• Tell HN: The Wayback Machine is up, in read-only mode
  
• Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
  
• I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
  
• Ask HN: Why is there not more concern about the physical security of Cloudflare?
  

2024-10-13 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 12, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
  
• Ask HN: What's the \"best\" book you've ever read?
  
• Ask HN: Anyone learned art (drawing, caricature etc.) as an adult?
  
• Ask HN: What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager?
  
• Audioscrape: Building in Rust When Everyone Said I Shouldn't
  
• Ask HN: What is happening in tech unrelated to AI?
  
• Is AWS S3 having an outage?
  
• Ask HN: Good Online Maths Communities?
  
• Ask HN: Why Isn't Elixir More Popular?
  
• Ask HN: What breakthrough helped you build and maintain better relationships?
  

2024-10-06 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 05, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
  
• Ask HN: How to deal with AI generated sloppy code
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
  
• Ask HN: Any good essays/books/advice about software sales?
  
• Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?
  
• Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Erlang?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)
  
• Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring?
  
• Ask HN: What happens to \".io\" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?
  

2024-09-29 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 28, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How to roll out an internal UI component library
  
• Ask HN: Good Sites for/with AI Enthusiasts?
  
• Ask HN: Resources for Learning Graphics Programming
  
• Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?
  
• How to manage oncall as an engineering manager?
  
• If AI is helping people code better, why aren't products getting better?
  
• Ask HN: What tools should I use to manage secrets from env files?
  
• Ask HN: Sci-fi recommendations by non-western authors?
  
• Ask HN: What do you use to backup your VMs?
  
• Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it
  

2024-09-22 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 21, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?
  
• Ask HN: Is a Masters in CS/Engineering worth it for a mid-career PM?
  
• Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?
  
• Ask HN: Must-Read Books for Startups?
  
• Tell HN: DanBC has died
  
• Ask HN: What runs L4-related microkernels/hypervisors these days?
  
• What are the best options for Amazon SDEs thinking about leaving over RTO policy
  
• Ask HN: My son might be blind – how to best support
  
• Ask HN: What currently is the best, nerd-friendly, rootable Android phone?
  
• Ask HN: Is it wrong not wanting career progression beyond senior?
  

2024-09-15 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 14, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Why no transflective LCD portables?
  
• Ask HN: How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT?
  
• Ask HN: How does my school block DoH?
  
• Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?
  
• Tell HN: Stripe Dashboard no longer supports Firefox
  
• Ask HN: Is the Job Market That Bad?
  
• Ask HN: How can I monetise an open source app of mine that has become popular?
  
• Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?
  
• Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?
  
• Is 7 days a week the new norm (for YC)?