Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-01-12 -- 2025-01-18

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending January 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2024
  
• Ask HN: Work on robotics or agents?
  
• Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior PM?
  
• Tell HN: I'm a programmer who bought a typewriter
  
• Ask HN: Am I the only one here who can't stand HN's AI obsession?
  
• Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?
  
• Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?
  
• Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript
  
• Ask HN: How can I realistically change careers?
  
• Ask HN: Has anyone tried alternative company models (like a co-op) for SaaS?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-01-05 -- 2025-01-11

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending January 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How are you using LLMs for traversing decompiler output?
  
• Ask HN: Spending Tracking Tools
  
• Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena
  
• Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?
  
• Ask HN: How can I learn to better command people's attention when speaking?
  
• Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things
  
• Ask HN: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work?
  
• Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
  
• Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?
  
• Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior engineer?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2024-12-29 -- 2025-01-04

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending January 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Reciprocal Approximation with 1 Subtraction
  
• Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?
  
• Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died
  
• Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?
  
• Happy New Year 2025
  
• Ask HN: Does the Framework laptop stand the test of time?
  
• Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
  
• Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2024-12-22 -- 2024-12-28

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending December 28, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
  
• Ask HN: Have you ever taken a career break or gap year to hack?
  
• Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?
  
• Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
  
• Merry Christmas Everyone
  
• Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2024?
  
• Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
  
• Ask HN: Resources for general purpose GPU development on Apple's M* chips?
  
• Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?
  
• Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2024-12-15 -- 2024-12-21

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending December 21, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to your email address?
  
• Ask HN: How do I rebuild at 36yo after a checkered career of undiagnosed ADHD?
  
• Ask HN: Who has an interesting job?
  
• Lost IBM OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 localizations: Looking for help finding and archiving
  
• Ask HN: How do you find part time work?
  
• Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
  
• Ask HN: Examples of agentic LLM systems in production?
  
• Please help: My business Facebook, Instagram, and personal acct all got disabled
  
• Ask HN: Who's building on Python NoGIL?
  
• Ask HN: Stanford CS 153 help