Ask Hacker News Weekly

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?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-01-04 -- 2026-01-10

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

• Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?
  
• Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago
  
• Ask HN: When do we expose \"Humans as Tools\" so LLM agents can call us on demand?
  
• Ask HN: Reading list for being a better engineer?
  
• Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?
  
• RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids?
  
• Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?
  
• Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
  
• Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
  
• Claude keeps nagging about \"Help improve Claude\" inspite of previous decline
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-12-28 -- 2026-01-03

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending January 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal
  
• Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
  
• Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results
  
• Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?
  
• Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?
  
• Tell HN: Happy New Year
  
• Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
  
• Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-12-21 -- 2025-12-27

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending December 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
  
• Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
  
• Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?
  
• 60 Minutes: Cecot
  
• Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
  
• Tell HN: Merry Christmas
  
• Looking for Decent Conversation?
  
• Tell HN: Merry Christmas
  
• Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
  
• Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?