Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2020-05-24 -- 2020-05-30

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
  
• Ask HN: OCR framework for extracting formatted text?
  
• Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer?
  
• Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas
  
• Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
  
• Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology
  
• Ask HN: Examples of great ‘productized consulting’ landing pages?
  
• Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?
  
• Ask HN: Any job boards and age-friendly companies for older developers?
  
• Ask HN: Best books under 200 pages for developers
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2020-05-17 -- 2020-05-23

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 23, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What is your learning strategy?
  
• Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
  
• Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself
  
• Ask HN: How long has Google been censoring YouTube comments critical of China?
  
• Google bans my events app for referencing Covid-19, or related terms
  
• Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
  
• Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?
  
• Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
  
• Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
  
• Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2020-05-10 -- 2020-05-16

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How to stop anxiety from too many choices?
  
• Tell HN: Call Mom
  
• Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
  
• Ask HN: I've been promoted to Architect. What do I need to learn/do to excel?
  
• Tell HN: Microsoft Skype Security Is Flawed
  
• Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
  
• Ask HN: What programming skills are required by HFT or Trading firms
  
• Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?
  
• Ask HN: What is the point of “© 2020 CompanyName” in website footers?
  
• Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2020-05-03 -- 2020-05-09

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 09, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How come there is no example code for B2B-SaaS apps?
  
• Ask HN: Why can't I send faxes from my phone?
  
• Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?
  
• Ask HN: I work for AWS. How do I encourage change for Amazon warehouse workers?
  
• Ask HN: Any good FOSS alternative to Google's reCAPTCHA?
  
• Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
  
• Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life
  
• Ask HN: Do you ever go back and admire a piece of code you wrote?
  
• Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
  
• Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2020-04-26 -- 2020-05-02

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 02, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
  
• Ask HN: Not smart enough to a programmer, where to take my life from here?
  
• Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?
  
• Ask HN: What is the real difference between Terraform and Ansible?
  
• Ask HN: I’m already fluent in English. How can I improve further?
  
• Ask HN: Advice for passing a FAANG background check with a criminal history
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2020)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)
  
• Ask HN: Learning the business-side of things as a developer?
  
• Ask HN: Intellectually simulating Podcasts/conversations/Talk