Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2019-09-22 -- 2019-09-28

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 28, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Best ways to spend money towards climate efforts
  
• Ask HN: Resources for Learning about Databases
  
• Easily delete all contacts uploaded to Instagram and Facebook
  
• Ask HN: PostgreSQL or MySQL?
  
• Ask HN: Parents of HN, what are your best sources for evidence-based parenting?
  
• Ask HN: How did you prepare for being a first-time parent?
  
• Ask HN: How do you handle/maintain local Python environments?
  
• Ask HN: Co-founder leaving a startup for free without equity?
  
• Ask HN: I am addicted to Porn. Help me quit
  
• Ask HN: Which email software do you use on Linux?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2019-09-15 -- 2019-09-21

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 21, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?
  
• Ask HN: Are available domain names still important when naming a company?
  
• Ask HN: React Native or Flutter?
  
• Ask HN: What are some architectural decisions that improved your codebase?
  
• Ask HN: Cons of Being on a Remote/Distributed Team?
  
• Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
  
• Ask HN: How to keep yourself accountable?
  
• Remind HN: Put contact info in your profile if you'd like to be contacted
  
• Tell HN: Stripe brought my business to a dead stop
  
• Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2019-09-08 -- 2019-09-14

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 14, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What is the ops architecture like for AAA multiplayer game servers?
  
• Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?
  
• Ask HN: What is key to good technical documentation?
  
• Ask HN: What Have You Learned at Google as a Software Engineer?
  
• Ask HN: Compiler Engineers, what would you advise new grads/students to learn?
  
• Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?
  
• Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier?
  
• Ask HN: How do you keep your programming motivation up?
  
• Ask HN: Are you ok?
  
• Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2019-09-01 -- 2019-09-07

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 07, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What type of restrictions does your employer have on side gigs?
  
• Ask HN: Do senior engineers have a mental model before coding?
  
• Ask HN: What are problems that enterprising college students could solve?
  
• Ask HN: Where is Julian Assange, what's happening to him now?
  
• Ask HN: Why Services like Facebook ads/stripe are closing Venezuelan accounts?
  
• Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)
  
• Ask HN: Good Remote Work Literature?
  
• I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
  
• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2019 – Show and tell
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2019-08-25 -- 2019-08-31

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 31, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?
  
• Ask HN: Best Linux Laptop Replacing a Macbook Pro?
  
• Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform
  
• Tell HN: Oracle now requires you to login when you try to download JRE
  
• Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?
  
• Ask HN: Recommended resources to learn the Linux kernel and OS theory?
  
• Ask HN: What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020?
  
• Ask HN: How do you handle logging?
  
• Tell HN: Skype on web does not support Firefox
  
• Ask HN: How Do You Read?