Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2014-12-21 -- 2014-12-27

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending December 27, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What was the job market like during the dot-com crash?
  
• Why you should think twice about Freelancer.com
  
• Ask HN: XMPP/Jabber self hosting
  
• Ask HN: How to refresh on modern features of C++?
  
• Spreading a little Christmas job-hunting hope
  
• Merry Christmas to HN
  
• Ask HN: What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?
  
• Ask HN: What new or hot technology do you recommend learning?
  
• Ask HN: How do you stay motivated to work on side projects?
  
• Ask HN: How to use small chunks of time productively
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2014-12-14 -- 2014-12-20

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending December 20, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Why are you stuck in a dead end job?
  
• Ask HN: Why do you code?
  
• Ask HN: Is this common in the gaming industry?
  
• Ask HN: Why people continue working in video game industry?
  
• Ask HN: How to get recruited at a US based startup?
  
• Ask HN: I'm having doubts about LastPass security, what should I switch to?
  
• Ask HN: How to break up and delegate programming tasks
  
• Ask HN: If we could redesign the Internet from scratch, what should it be?
  
• Ask HN: I’m visiting Bay Area and I dislike the “hacker” culture. Please help
  
• Ask HN: What encrypted chat application to choose?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2014-12-07 -- 2014-12-13

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending December 13, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Why is every story on Uber Delhi driver raping a passenger getting instakilled?
  
• I Don't Agree That There Really Is a Tech Worker Shortage
  
• Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014?
  
• Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
  
• Things I wish people who write job postings would stop writing
  
• Ask HN: Is there any part-time dev jobs listing?
  
• Ask HN: Where to start on creating AI for games?
  
• Ask HN: Where do you get your inspiration from?
  
• Ask HN: What is the most important lesson you learned this year?
  
• Ask HN: How much screen time do you let your kids have?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2014-11-30 -- 2014-12-06

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending December 06, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What makes an API good?
  
• Ask HN: What are your favorite scholarly papers? Why?
  
• Ezra Zygmuntowicz has died
  
• Ask HN: What is the best alternative to Angular JavaScript framework?
  
• Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2014)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2014)
  
• Ask HN: How or where to begin learning mathematics from first principles?
  
• Ask HN: Examples of profitable little free web tools?
  
• Ask HN: How can I remedy scatter brain and information overload?