Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-10-19 -- 2025-10-25

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Does anyone have scans of these missing PC Plus issues (1991–1993)?
  
• Programming language agnosticism is the only way to move forward in life
  
• Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
  
• Tell HN: AWS us-east-1 services are down
  
• Ask HN: What are some impressive vibe coding projects?
  
• Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage
  
• Tell HN: Locked out of Google account – 63K subscriber YouTube channel
  
• Google Demanded My Drivers Lic Before Letting Me Read an Article
  
• Ask HN: Not treated respectfully by colleague – advice?
  
• Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-10-12 -- 2025-10-18

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Lost all my sites overnight: Vercel terminated my account without notice
  
• Ask HN: What's the best alternative to Dragon NaturallySpeaking?
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Has AI stolen the satisfaction from programming?
  
• Ask HN: Can't get hired – what's next?
  
• YouTube Is Down
  
• Ask HN: What in the world is going on at Supabase?
  
• OpenAI board member is violating export control, selling Claude API to HongKong
  
• Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?
  
• Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-10-05 -- 2025-10-11

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Federal Shutdown Means More Grants Won't Be Reviewed This Cycle
  
• Ask HN: Why did COM/SOAP/other protocols fail?
  
• Tell HN: Stripe seems to have suspended human customer support
  
• Ask HN: Why is software quality collapsing?
  
• Cerebras: The AI hardware giant facing imminent collapse
  
• Ask HN: 10-Year Reddit Account Hacked Despite 2FA [updated]
  
• Ask HN: Any advice on pivoting out of VC-backed tech?
  
• Ask HN: What's the best hackable smart TV?
  
• Telegram's founder Pavel Durov sends alarmist message to all Telegram users
  
• Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-09-28 -- 2025-10-04

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?
  
• Ask HN: How Do I Get over My Existential Crisis?
  
• Gentoo Linux might be the best desktop Linux distro for advanced Linux users
  
• Ask HN: How do you say “I don’t know, but I’ll get back to you” confidently?
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
  
• YouTube is now full of crap AI slop
  
• Ask HN: What's your experience with using graph databases for agentic use-cases?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Went to prison for 18 months, lost access to my GitHub. What can I do?