Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2023-12-24 -- 2023-12-30

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending December 30, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• If only someone told me this before my first startup
  
• Tell HN: Merry Christmas
  
• Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023?
  
• Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023
  
• Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2024?
  
• Ask HN: Questions for two 40 year IBM Mainframe repair and programmers
  
• Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2023?
  
• Ask HN: Good examples of fault-tolerant Erlang code?
  
• Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO?
  
• Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2023-12-17 -- 2023-12-23

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending December 23, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Cloudflare is experiencing elevated 5xx responses
  
• Ask HN: Terrified I wont find another job
  
• Ask HN: Does anyone here use Haxe?
  
• Dropbox has hidden third party AI settings, not disabled them
  
• Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their DNS record
  
• Ask HN: Is Twitter/X working for you?
  
• Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
  
• Ask HN: What's your \"it's not stupid if it works\" story?
  
• Ask HN: Best modern file transfer/synchronization protocol?
  
• Ask HN: What's the coolest non standard application of LLMs you've seen?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2023-12-10 -- 2023-12-16

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending December 16, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What's the best hardware to run small/medium models locally?
  
• Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?
  
• Ask HN: How to inform YouTube a video is no longer under copyright?
  
• Ask HN: Best UI design courses for hackers?
  
• Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
  
• Ask HN: Netflix doing mass layoffs today?
  
• Ask HN: Best resources on abstracting and dealing with complexity
  
• Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?
  
• Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17
  
• Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2023-12-03 -- 2023-12-09

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending December 09, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Is anyone using self hosted LLM day to day and training it like a new employee
  
• uBlock Origin rules for HN: removing MSM news sources reduces systemic stress
  
• Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
  
• Tell HN: YC company Anima Health is spamming email addresses posted to HN
  
• Ask HN: Where do you live? What's good or bad about it?
  
• Ask HN: How are you dealing with the job market anxiety?
  
• Ask HN: What are some excellent blogs, news boards, YouTube channels to follow?
  
• Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research results
  
• Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?
  
• Ask HN: What other good forums are out there?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2023-11-26 -- 2023-12-02

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending December 02, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How can my mom downshift as a SQL developer?
  
• Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
  
• Ask HN: Cheapest way to run local LLMs?
  
• Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort?
  
• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)
  
• Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?
  
• Why are we being DDoSed by Cloudflare?
  
• Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?