Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-08-24 -- 2025-08-30

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Best codebases to study to learn software design?
  
• Ask HN: How can I recover and run my old mobile game from the 2010s?
  
• Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?
  
• Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads?
  
• Ask HN: What to learn for math for modeling?
  
• Ask HN: Did modern AI's coding abilities make you lose interest in programming?
  
• Ask HN: GitHub Copilot down?
  
• Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps
  
• Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
  
• Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-08-17 -- 2025-08-23

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Why Is My Happiness Tied to My Productivity?
  
• Ask HN: Tell me about the best programmer you worked with
  
• My First $500 MRR – My thoughts and learnings
  
• What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them?
  
• Ask HN: Have any successful startups been made by 'vibe coding'?
  
• Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent
  
• Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
  
• Ask HN: Is Kubernetes still a big no-no for early stages in 2025?
  
• Ask HN: If technology is so good for the world, why are we becoming less happy?
  
• Ask HN: How do you find early stage startups to join
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-08-10 -- 2025-08-16

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• GPT-5 streaming requires submission of biometric data
  
• ChatGPT 5 is slow and no better than 4
  
• Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?
  
• Ask HN: What alternatives to GitHub are you using?
  
• VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project
  
• F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs
  
• Ask HN: Is the rise of AI tools going to be the next 'dot com' bust?
  
• Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?
  
• What makes you still work for Meta, when it's clear how toxic the company is?
  
• Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-08-03 -- 2025-08-09

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Tell HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be
  
• Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?
  
• Tell HN: I'm tired of formulaic, \"LLM house style\" show HN submissions
  
• Ask HN: Has any of the Pivotal Tracker replacement attempts succeeded?
  
• Ask HN: What change enabled you to consistently finish your side projects?
  
• Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?
  
• Tell HN: Anthropic expires paid credits after a year
  
• Ask HN: Do you struggle with flow state when using AI assisted coding tools?
  
• Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
  
• Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-07-27 -- 2025-08-02

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
  
• Warp.dev Terminal – Overpriced, Buggy, and AI-Sabotaged My Code
  
• Claude Code weekly rate limits
  
• Claude Code new limits – Important updates to your Max account usage limits
  
• Ask HN: Why is \"Tea\" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?
  
• I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
  
• Tell HN: Google Maps reviews in Germany are basically dead
  
• Nova: A New Web Framework for Erlang
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)