Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-12-07 -- 2025-12-13

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending December 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops
  
• Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn?
  
• Ask HN: Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years?
  
• Ask HN: Should \"I asked $AI, and it said\" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
  
• AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target
  
• Ask HN: What are you buying your kids for Christmas?
  
• How does a \"you interview for US company, we do the work\" scam work?
  
• Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100
  
• Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
  
• Ask HN: How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-11-30 -- 2025-12-06

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending December 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Tell HN: Regrets. Think carefully about how you spend your time
  
• Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest)
  
• Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen
  
• Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
  
• Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending
  
• Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down
  
• I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
  
• Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-11-23 -- 2025-11-29

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending November 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Good resources to learn financial systems engineering?
  
• Tell HN: Wanted to give dang appreciation
  
• Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
  
• Ask HN: Should account creation/origin country be displayed on HN profiles?
  
• Color.io Is Going Offline
  
• Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
  
• Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?
  
• Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest
  
• Ask HN: What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments?
  
• I changed my address, and TransferWise in two days will empty my account
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-11-16 -- 2025-11-22

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending November 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Could Microsoft replace its CEO with ChatGPT?
  
• An exposed .git folder let us dox a phishing campaign
  
• Ask HN: Cloud providers are losing in favor of bare-metal?
  
• Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
  
• Ask HN: Cloudflare is down. How does this affect you?
  
• Cloudflare Down?
  
• Facebook has made it impossible to delete Pages – dark patterns everywhere
  
• GitHub Is Having Issues
  
• GitHub Down
  
• Tell HN: Cursor exposes side projects to your employer
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-11-09 -- 2025-11-15

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending November 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be
  
• Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?
  
• Ask HN: How do you get over the fear of sharing code?
  
• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Senior people, how did your career evolve?
  
• Ask HN: How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode?
  
• Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue
  
• Ask HN: Anyone else disillusioned with \"AI experts\" in their team?
  
• Ask HN: How to learn concurrency?
  
• What is the most beautiful / highest quality code you've seen (or written)?