Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2021-08-22 -- 2021-08-28

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 28, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How do you validate your startup idea when you've no distribution?
  
• Ask HN: How do you handle user-generated content in your apps?
  
• Ask HN: Has web development become insane or am I stuck in my ways?
  
• Please, stop forcing a dark theme on a web-site visitors
  
• Tell HN: Signing out and in to Apple device forcefully activates iCloud sync
  
• Ask HN: Managing career progression for those with no interest in progressing?
  
• Ask HN: I love coding, but I hate web development. How can I “jump ship”?
  
• Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
  
• Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?
  
• Ask HN: Is there a recruiter email blocklist somewhere?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2021-08-15 -- 2021-08-21

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 21, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• GitHub.Dev is now available on any GitHub repo
  
• Ask HN: Is it worth learning Elixir, from a jobs perspective?
  
• Ask HN: I feel trapped in my job and city
  
• Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?
  
• Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?
  
• Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?
  
• Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful
  
• Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
  
• Tell HN: Heroku bans 10 year account without notice or explanation
  
• I won't be posting any more preimages against neuralhash for now
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2021-08-08 -- 2021-08-14

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Is anyone working on an open hardware 3G/4G dongle?
  
• Ask HN: Is domain squatting still profitable? Is there a solution?
  
• It's not SEO: something is fundamentally broken in Google Search
  
• Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?
  
• Done with YC: Age Discrimination
  
• Ask HN: Senior Software Engineer to Engineering Manager
  
• Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?
  
• Ask HN: Do you use Purism, PinePhone, or Fairphone?
  
• Develop Native Mobile Apps with JVM Clojure, GraalVM, SCI and Skia
  
• Ask HN: My friend made it big. How to handle?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2021-08-01 -- 2021-08-07

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 07, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Has anyone fully embraced an event-driven architecture?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2021)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
  
• Google bookmarks won't be supported past September 31, 2021
  
• Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental
  
• Tell HN: Protonmail is no longer private, sharing user info with US authorities
  
• Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
  
• Incorrect expression calculation between programming languages
  
• Tell HN: Stripe shut down my 4-year business with no explanation
  
• Ask HN: Best privacy preserving alternatives to Apple products?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2021-07-25 -- 2021-07-31

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 31, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Tell HN: YouTube is asking for age verification to watch Bret Weinstein's video
  
• Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?
  
• Ask HN: How did you establish and maintain relationships with your first users?
  
• Ask HN: How do you chill your mind after work?
  
• Barinsta, the open source client for Instagram got a C&D from Facebook
  
• Ask HN: Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs?
  
• Ask HN: My country may be in the midst of a coup – how should I get prepared?
  
• Tell HN: Consider listing your contact details
  
• Ask HN: Solopreneurs, what is your day and week like?
  
• Ask HN: Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly?