Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-04-05 -- 2026-04-11

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending April 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Academic study on AI's impact on software development – want to join?
  
• Ask HN: Is there any interest in a native Qt/C++ Discord client?
  
• Write Your Own Copy
  
• Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
  
• Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM
  
• Claude Code Down
  
• Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different
  
• Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?
  
• Hybrid Attention
  
• Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-03-29 -- 2026-04-04

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending April 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
  
• Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements
  
• Tell HN: Chrome says \"suspicious download\" when trying to download yt-dlp
  
• Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
  
• Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
  
• Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165
  
• Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?
  
• Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-03-22 -- 2026-03-28

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending March 28, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?
  
• Ask HN: Apple terminated our dev account over a rogue employee
  
• LLMs learn what programmers create, not how programmers work
  
• Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?
  
• Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised
  
• Tell HN: Russians may soon lose access to the global internet
  
• Apple Discontinues Mac Pro
  
• If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
  
• Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry
  
• The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making \"lazy\" look productive
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-03-15 -- 2026-03-21

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending March 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Have you successfully treated forward head posture (\"nerd neck\")?
  
• Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?
  
• I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
  
• Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
  
• Tell HN: AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals
  
• Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
  
• Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
  
• Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?
  
• WFH is becoming a benefit again
  
• Tell HN: H&R Block tax software installs a TLS backdoor
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-03-08 -- 2026-03-14

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

• Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listing is verified?
  
• Ask HN: How to be alone?
  
• Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
  
• Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?
  
• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
  
• Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?
  
• Ask HN: Is Claude down again?
  
• X is selling existing users' handles
  
• I traced $2B in nonprofit grants for Meta and Age Verification lobbying