Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-03-16 -- 2025-03-22

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending March 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How to study for system design that doesn't include front end/back end?
  
• Nubmq: A high performant key-value store engine built from first principles
  
• Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained
  
• How I Stay Motivated Working on My Solo SaaS (When It Feels Like Nobody Cares)
  
• Ask HN: NSF Is Imploding – Thanks to Trump, Science Is Being Gutted
  
• Ask HN: How do I escape homelessness after rebuilding my mental health?
  
• Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
  
• Ask HN: Are you afraid to travel to US to tech conferences?
  
• Ask HN: What is the simplest data orchestration tool you've worked with?
  
• Ask HN: How should junior programmers use and/or not use AI for programming?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-03-09 -- 2025-03-15

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending March 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How do you handle VAT / Sales Tax accounting as B2C SaaS?
  
• Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?
  
• Ask HN: How do you have effective 1:1s with your manager?
  
• Ask HN: Would you fund Mozilla to become independent of Google?
  
• Ask HN: What do you use to create diagrams?
  
• Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work?
  
• Ask HN: Any jobs that don't force you to always be advancing career wise?
  
• I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
  
• Chrome for Android doesn't have extensions, but Edge now has a whole store
  
• Ask HN: How much traffic do you serve and with which database engine?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-03-02 -- 2025-03-08

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending March 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?
  
• Ask HN: Are you a 40-year old software engineer without a job for > 1 year?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)
  
• Ask HN: How much employee resume verification is done in practice?
  
• Ask HN: Best Windows/Linux developer laptop in 2025
  
• Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?
  
• Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is \"correct\"?
  
• Ask HN: Is Cursor deleting working code for you too or is it just me?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-02-23 -- 2025-03-01

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending March 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: A retrofitted C dialect?
  
• Ask HN: Are there online communities for single-owner run companies?
  
• Tell HN: Five random IndieWeb blog links on your terminal
  
• Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?
  
• Navigating a Broken Dev Culture
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?
  
• Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?
  
• Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers
  
• Ask HN: Ethical VC Funds?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-02-16 -- 2025-02-22

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending February 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?
  
• My 2 year journey to building a successful product ($2,700 MRR)
  
• Ask HN: Can we get a HN background color (dark mode)
  
• Ask HN: Small Ideas vs. Big Ideas?
  
• Ask HN: What fiction/non-fiction book should everyone read on the topic of CS?
  
• Ask HN: Can I really create a company around my open-source software?
  
• What should I expect from moving tech jobs from USA to Europe?
  
• Ask HN: Tired of startups – want a normal job. Help
  
• Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?
  
• Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?