Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-02-08 -- 2026-02-14

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending February 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: 10 months since the Llama-4 release: what happened to Meta AI?
  
• Ask HN: Ideas for small ways to make the world a better place
  
• Ask HN: Non AI-obsessed tech forums
  
• Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
  
• Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
  
• Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?
  
• Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
  
• Ask HN: AI Depression
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-02-01 -- 2026-02-07

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending February 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
  
• Kernighan on Programming
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
  
• GitHub Actions Have \"Major Outage\"
  
• Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
  
• Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
  
• Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam
  
• Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?
  
• Tell HN: I'm a PM at a big system of record SaaS. We're cooked
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-01-25 -- 2026-01-31

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending January 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Why is it legal and ok when big corp. straight tries to scam a user?
  
• Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?
  
• Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?
  
• Ask HN: Notification Overload
  
• Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II
  
• Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?
  
• Ask HN: Junior getting lost
  
• Ask HN: Do you also \"hoard\" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
  
• Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
  
• Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-01-18 -- 2026-01-24

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending January 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
  
• Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?
  
• Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?
  
• Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
  
• Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there?
  
• Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned
  
• Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
  
• Ask HN: How are you automating your coding work?
  
• Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
  
• Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-01-11 -- 2026-01-17

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending January 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
  
• Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
  
• The $LANG Programming Language
  
• Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
  
• Ask HN: Share your personal website
  
• Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
  
• Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?
  
• Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
  
• Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?