Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-07-20 -- 2025-07-26

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Where do you guys find audiobooks?
  
• Can Software Be Durable?
  
• Ask HN: How to find non-popular blogs and forums?
  
• Ask HN: Why do Cursor, Windsurf and Claude Code dominate the conversation?
  
• Ask HN: Why is Gmail so incompetent at basic search?
  
• Ask HN: Python developers at big companies what is your setup?
  
• Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for?
  
• Ask HN: How many of you are working in tech without a STEM degree?
  
• Remove All AI Features from Firefox
  
• Ask HN: What is so good about MCP servers?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-07-13 -- 2025-07-19

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI?
  
• Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 appears to be down
  
• Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and \"Everything else/other?\"
  
• Ask HN: What's Your Useful Local LLM Stack?
  
• Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network
  
• Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
  
• Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?
  
• I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
  
• Ask HN: GCP Outage?
  
• Gmail's backup codes are useless to access account
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-07-06 -- 2025-07-12

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 12, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Why there is no demand for my SaaS when competition is killing it?
  
• Ask HN: Advice for Starting a Hacker Space?
  
• Ask HN: What old or outdated software have you never found a replacement for?
  
• Ask HN: Any resources for finding non-smart appliances?
  
• Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming
  
• Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?
  
• Co-founder exiting after pivot – what's a fair exit package?
  
• Adobe Is Evil
  
• Google fails to dismiss wiretapping claims on SJ, settles with app users
  
• Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-06-29 -- 2025-07-05

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Tell HN: (dictionary|thesaurus).reference.com is now a spam site
  
• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Is the header CSS broken for you?
  
• Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)
  
• 1KB JavaScript Demoscene Challenge Just Launched
  
• Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
  
• Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding?