Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-01-18 -- 2026-01-24
The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending January 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:
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Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
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Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?
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Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?
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Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
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Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there?
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Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned
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Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
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Ask HN: How are you automating your coding work?
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Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
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Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
Posted at 2026-01-25 00:00 | Permanent link |