Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-12-21 -- 2025-12-27

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

• Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
  
• Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
  
• Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?
  
• 60 Minutes: Cecot
  
• Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
  
• Tell HN: Merry Christmas
  
• Looking for Decent Conversation?
  
• Tell HN: Merry Christmas
  
• Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
  
• Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-12-14 -- 2025-12-20

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

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI?
  
• Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?
  
• Ask HN: How are you LLM-coding in an established code base?
  
• Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
  
• Ask HN: Was HN just down for anyone else?
  
• Tell HN: HN was down
  
• Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
  
• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
  
• Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-12-07 -- 2025-12-13

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

• Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops
  
• Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn?
  
• Ask HN: Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years?
  
• Ask HN: Should \"I asked $AI, and it said\" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
  
• AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target
  
• Ask HN: What are you buying your kids for Christmas?
  
• How does a \"you interview for US company, we do the work\" scam work?
  
• Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100
  
• Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
  
• Ask HN: How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-11-30 -- 2025-12-06

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

• Tell HN: Regrets. Think carefully about how you spend your time
  
• Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest)
  
• Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen
  
• Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
  
• Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending
  
• Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down
  
• I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
  
• Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?