Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2022-09-18 -- 2022-09-24

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 24, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How to validate a startup idea whilst employed?
  
• Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?
  
• Ask HN: What do you think when companies ask for gritty people?
  
• Ask HN: Name 3-5 books that had the most impact on your career and knowledge?
  
• I accidentally started a movement – Policing the Police by scraping court data
  
• Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about
  
• Ask HN: Do you regret being a generalist?
  
• Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
  
• Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
  
• Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2022-09-11 -- 2022-09-17

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 17, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?
  
• Ask HN: Solopreneurs, how do you maintain a professional/social network?
  
• Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
  
• Tell HN: Sudden Chile daylight savings time rules change causes chaos
  
• Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?
  
• Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?
  
• Ask HN: How do I write a Linux driver for my 15 year old photo printer?
  
• Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business
  
• Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right password, recovery email
  
• Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2022-09-04 -- 2022-09-10

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 10, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Working as a software engineer for 5 years, I've forgotten all CS stuff
  
• Ask HN: Location based pay is killing my motivation, how do others handle it?
  
• Ask HN: Do you use foreign keys in relational databases?
  
• Ask HN: Which startups have the most interesting pivot stories?
  
• Ask HN: Is it okay to just bootstrap it, even when VCs are knocking?
  
• Tell HN: Otter.ai bot recording meetings without consent
  
• Ask HN: What happened to theregister.com?
  
• Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?
  
• Bitwarden: Avoid at all costs (outage issue)
  
• Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2022-08-28 -- 2022-09-03

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 03, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: I want to be an expert in many things but my lifetime won't be enough
  
• Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?
  
• Ask HN: Why hasn't the ACH system been more abused?
  
• Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?
  
• Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?
  
• Tell HN: Meetup.com is offering abandoned meetups to anyone willing to pay
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)
  
• Ask HN: Whatever happened to dedicated sound cards?
  
• Tell HN: The 10-bit timers are about to overflow on September 17th
  
• Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?