Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2019-07-07 -- 2019-07-13

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 13, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Plant a Trillion Trees Campaign?
  
• Expecting programmers to problem solve for 8 hours is stupid
  
• Ask HN: How do you maintain balance between all the things you want to do?
  
• Ask HN: How do you read and understand an open-source project?
  
• Ask HN: Has anyone dissolved a Stripe Atlas company?
  
• Ask HN: What are your favorite YouTube channels to learn stuff?
  
• Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?
  
• Tell HN: I came up with an interesting way to do decentralized account recovery
  
• Stripe's API was down again
  
• Innocent woman arrested in false-positive in facial recognition system in Brazil
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2019-06-30 -- 2019-07-06

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 06, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Tell HN: Social media strike proposed for July 4-5 by Wikipedia co-founder
  
• Ask HN: Why do new(ish) programming languages eschew OOP features?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)
  
• Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
  
• Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?
  
• Ask HN: What are some fun projects to try out on a spare Linux file server?
  
• Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing music in random order?
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on?
  
• Ask HN: Best office chair for home office work?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2019-06-23 -- 2019-06-29

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending June 29, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Resources for getting started with bare-metal coding?
  
• Ask HN: What’s the legality of web scraping?
  
• Ask HN: Do you use automated tools to create APIs, or do you code them manually?
  
• Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
  
• Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?
  
• Ask HN: US government funds a lot of tech research, why don't startups use it?
  
• Ask HN: How much do you work at your job?
  
• Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020
  
• Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?
  
• Ask HN: What do middle-level managers do?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2019-06-16 -- 2019-06-22

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending June 22, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Do you program in Basic?
  
• Ask HN: “Contact us for pricing” nonsense
  
• Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?
  
• Ask HN: How would you teach teens to code in 2019?
  
• Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?
  
• Ask HN: I want to get a Bachelor's in CS online. What are some good programs?
  
• Ask HN: What are the signs that you have a great manager?
  
• Ask HN: How to get better at Data structures and Algorithm?
  
• Ask HN: Stuck with an unpronounceable product name
  
• Ask HN: How to handle code reviews with a visually impaired coworker?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2019-06-09 -- 2019-06-15

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending June 15, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection whitelists Google, Instagram, Amazon...
  
• Ask HN: Why Doesn't Microsoft Fix Skype?
  
• Ask HN: Should I find a job or try to build a profitable project?
  
• Ask HN: How does everyone handle mobile browser testing?
  
• Ask HN: Old guys, what do you miss about development in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s?
  
• Ask HN: Good tech talks on how analytics systems are implemented?
  
• Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive?
  
• Ask HN: More tech-oriented HN alternative?
  
• Ask HN: Twitter account stolen by presumed vulnerability
  
• Ask HN: What can I do to accelerate scientific research?