Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2020-10-18 -- 2020-10-24

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 24, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Uber sends political ads through push notifications
  
• Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?
  
• Ask HN: How do you deal with chronic illness?
  
• Ask HN: What are some problems solved in unrelated domains?
  
• Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
  
• Ask HN: The state of Firebase alternatives in 2020?
  
• Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020?
  
• Ask HN: How are Digital Nomads coping with travel restrictions?
  
• Ask HN: Why isn’t finance a part of the core curriculum at schools?
  
• Ask HN: What are real-life useful use-cases for blockchain (not currencies)?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2020-10-11 -- 2020-10-17

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What are some good methods to prove current time?
  
• OpenDeck: 1,200 startup slide decks by category – Team, Market, Funding
  
• Ask HN: Best HVAC system for a new house?
  
• Ask HN: What are good resources to learn system design?
  
• Ask HN: What are some evergreen HN threads worth revisiting?
  
• Ask HN: Why are there no open source 2d printers?
  
• Is Twitter Down?
  
• Ask HN: How to Become a Consultant?
  
• Tell HN: Rackspace apparently lost some storage volumes
  
• Ask HN: How PostgreSQL source code is 3x shorter than MySQL's one?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2020-10-04 -- 2020-10-10

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

• Ask HN: How can I escape my third-world country?
  
• Ask HN: How did you get started in tech and/or Linux?
  
• Ask HN: What is your trick to do deep work or study?
  
• Ask HN: Do you have inspiring spontaneous conversations while remote working?
  
• Ask HN: Side-project that became your full-time job?
  
• Tell HN: FB tracked my sensitive buy outside FB, cant delete a suggestion in app
  
• Ask HN: What are the most fun-to-play-with open source deep learning projects?
  
• Ask HN: Essential skill needed to be a programmer?
  
• Ask HN: What are the pros / cons of using monorepos?
  
• I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2020-09-27 -- 2020-10-03

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 03, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What are good life skills for people to learn?
  
• Ask HN: Best Recipe Search Engine?
  
• Ask HN: How to find “senior” jack of all trades jobs?
  
• Ask HN: Teaching kids how to think?
  
• Ask HN: How to get into the chip industry?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2020)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
  
• Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?
  
• Ask HN: What is an acceptable latency for a web load balancer?
  
• Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel to learn advanced programming?