Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-11-23 -- 2025-11-29

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending November 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Good resources to learn financial systems engineering?
  
• Tell HN: Wanted to give dang appreciation
  
• Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
  
• Ask HN: Should account creation/origin country be displayed on HN profiles?
  
• Color.io Is Going Offline
  
• Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
  
• Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?
  
• Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest
  
• Ask HN: What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments?
  
• I changed my address, and TransferWise in two days will empty my account
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-11-16 -- 2025-11-22

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending November 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Could Microsoft replace its CEO with ChatGPT?
  
• An exposed .git folder let us dox a phishing campaign
  
• Ask HN: Cloud providers are losing in favor of bare-metal?
  
• Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
  
• Ask HN: Cloudflare is down. How does this affect you?
  
• Cloudflare Down?
  
• Facebook has made it impossible to delete Pages – dark patterns everywhere
  
• GitHub Is Having Issues
  
• GitHub Down
  
• Tell HN: Cursor exposes side projects to your employer
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-11-09 -- 2025-11-15

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending November 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be
  
• Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?
  
• Ask HN: How do you get over the fear of sharing code?
  
• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Senior people, how did your career evolve?
  
• Ask HN: How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode?
  
• Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue
  
• Ask HN: Anyone else disillusioned with \"AI experts\" in their team?
  
• Ask HN: How to learn concurrency?
  
• What is the most beautiful / highest quality code you've seen (or written)?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-11-02 -- 2025-11-08

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending November 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Anyone else use FreePascal as their low level language?
  
• Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on?
  
• Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)
  
• Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app
  
• Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
  
• Ask HN: Why are most status pages delayed?
  
• Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-10-26 -- 2025-11-01

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending November 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How to boost Gemini transcription accuracy for company names?
  
• Ask HN: Second generation of intro to software dev for 3rd graders
  
• Ask HN: Is AWS down again?
  
• Tell HN: Twilio support replies with hallucinated features
  
• Tell HN: Azure outage
  
• Azure major outage: Portal, Front Door and global regions down
  
• Azure Outage
  
• Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop
  
• Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?
  
• Ask HN: Where to begin with \"modern\" Emacs?