Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2024-06-23 -- 2024-06-29

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending June 29, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How do you find a mentor in software engineering and in life?
  
• Ask HN: How do you stay organized for solo dev?
  
• Ask HN: Advice for leading a software migration?
  
• Ask HN: What's the oldest file on your computer?
  
• Ask HN: How to deal with memory/cognition slowing down as an engineering leader?
  
• Ask HN: What is the most challenging programming course you have taken?
  
• Ask HN: Those of you who've left the SWE world, what did you transition into?
  
• Ask HN: YouTube shutdown my account with private channel of my kids memories
  
• Ask HN: How to pivot to a Machine Learning engineer?
  
• Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2024-06-16 -- 2024-06-22

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending June 22, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Freelancers, how do you get work?
  
• Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?
  
• Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?
  
• Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?
  
• Ask HN: Create audio software akin to physics engines?
  
• Ask HN: What does RISC-V custom chips for under $100K mean?
  
• Ask HN: What happens when I click \"request for quote\" on your SaaS?
  
• Ask HN: Is Google deliberately breaking Firefox?
  
• Ask HN: Could AI be a dot com sized bubble?
  
• Ask HN: Well architected React and Node repos?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2024-06-09 -- 2024-06-15

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending June 15, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Anyone else lurk and feel like they understand nothing?
  
• Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
  
• Ask HN: Am I dead meat already?
  
• Tell HN: Hacker News BigQuery dataset is updated daily again
  
• Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?
  
• Ask HN: Why is nobody manufacturing low tech electric cars in 2024?
  
• Ask HN: Is it just me, or does the job market for IT seem bad today?
  
• Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?
  
• Ask HN: Widespread Apathy?
  
• Ask HN: What skillsets/stacks will keep me employable over the next 5-10 years?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2024-06-02 -- 2024-06-08

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending June 08, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Tell HN: Google's new summarize SMS just read another person's messages to me
  
• Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
  
• Tell HN: Chromium forks for legacy platforms are disappearing from GitHub
  
• Ask HN: Going low-level – what to learn next?
  
• Ask HN: 30y After 'On Lisp', PAIP etc., Is Lisp Still \"Beating the Averages\"?
  
• ThankYouHN: 14 Years
  
• Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?
  
• Ask HN: How to handle a senior hire turning out to be junior?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2024-05-26 -- 2024-06-01

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending June 01, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What sites are similar to Hacker News?
  
• Ask HN: What are your favourite websites that display a lot of data / tables?
  
• Ask HN: Can anyone recommend a Windows Systems programming book?
  
• Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
  
• Ask HN: Why do games companies not release source code for old games?
  
• Ask HN: Is Stripe the new PayPal, cancelling user accounts without explanation?
  
• Ask HN: How can we open-source a 7 year old SaaS codebase and build a community?
  
• I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine
  
• Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?
  
• Ask HN: How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes