Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-09-21 -- 2025-09-27

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How were graphics card drivers programmed back in the 90s?
  
• Tell HN: Phishing campaign claiming to be GitHub Developer Fund
  
• Ask HN: Radar and radio failures at Dallas area airports
  
• Ask HN: How do you choose languages for building applications?
  
• iOS 26 Liquid Glass is awful in many ways
  
• Everyone's trying vectors and graphs for AI memory. We went back to SQL
  
• Mass phishing emails pretending to be Y Combinator right now
  
• Ask HN: How Is Everyone Feeling?
  
• I downloaded the german 8 pm news every day since 2014: Ask me anything
  
• Ask HN: Anyone else's short-term memory gone to hell?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-09-14 -- 2025-09-20

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Paid $2400 to Cloudflare, support refuses to help
  
• Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?
  
• Ask HN: Generalists, when do you say \"I know enough\" about any particular topic?
  
• I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the App Store using my story
  
• Ask HN: Is anyone else sick of AI splattered code
  
• Tell HN: Apple Broke Fitts' Law in Tahoe
  
• Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN?
  
• Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?
  
• Ask HN: What is the actual state of Linux phones?
  
• Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-09-07 -- 2025-09-13

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Why does Google word privacy settings like you agree even when off?
  
• If AI agents take the jobs, who buys the stuff?
  
• Ask HN: Good resources for DIY-ish animatronic kits for Halloween?
  
• Does anyone think the current AI approach will hit a dead end?
  
• Plex Update: Notice of a potential security incident
  
• Nepal Prime Minister Resigns. Parliament / Ministires set on Fire.
  
• My Workflow Is 70% AI, 20% Copy-Paste, 10% Panic. What's Yours?
  
• Ask HN: Has the Gaza war affected the HN crowd?
  
• Google Doesn't Rank My Site for My Own Brand Name
  
• Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-08-31 -- 2025-09-06

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation
  
• Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling
  
• Tell HN: Use \"-f**k\" to kill Google AI Overview
  
• Ask HN: Do custom ROMs exist for electric cars, for example Teslas?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Is your company still hiring junior engineers?
  
• Tell HN: I kinda want to go back to Java
  
• Ask HN: Gandi is holding my domain hostage. What can I do?
  
• Is Google Down? - EU networking issue