Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-08-09 -- 2026-08-15

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
  
• Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?
  
• Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?
  
• Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
  
• SETI@Home was the coolest thing
  
• Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login
  
• Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026?
  
• Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
  
• Alternative to Internet Archive
  

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

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply
  
• Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is quitting? (August 2026)
  
• How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated?
  
• Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
  
• Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
  
• DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
  
• Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-07-26 -- 2026-08-01

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student?
  
• BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman
  
• The Author of Clean Code No Longer Reviews AI-Generated Code
  
• Internet is no longer accessible?
  
• Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support
  
• Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?
  
• Ask HN: Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items?
  
• Ask HN: My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed]
  
• Ask HN: Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science?
  
• Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-07-19 -- 2026-07-25

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 25, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
  
• Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI?
  
• Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login
  
• Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?
  
• Ask HN: How do people keep track of organizational knowledge?
  
• Ask HN: What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)?
  
• Ask HN: If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted?
  
• Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?
  
• Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
  
• Ask HN: What livestream do you keep open in a tab?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-07-12 -- 2026-07-18

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
  
• LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft
  
• Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
  
• AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
  
• Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B
  
• Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars
  
• Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
  
• Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
  
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