Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-02-15 -- 2026-02-21

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending February 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?
  
• Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
  
• Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?
  
• Twitter(X) Is Down
  
• Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts?
  
• Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web
  
• Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
  
• Ask HN: Anyone else tired of working in tech?
  
• Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development?
  
• Ask HN: Is it worth learning Vim in 2026?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-02-08 -- 2026-02-14

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending February 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: 10 months since the Llama-4 release: what happened to Meta AI?
  
• Ask HN: Ideas for small ways to make the world a better place
  
• Ask HN: Non AI-obsessed tech forums
  
• Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
  
• Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
  
• Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?
  
• Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
  
• Ask HN: AI Depression
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-02-01 -- 2026-02-07

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending February 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
  
• Kernighan on Programming
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
  
• GitHub Actions Have \"Major Outage\"
  
• Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
  
• Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
  
• Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam
  
• Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?
  
• Tell HN: I'm a PM at a big system of record SaaS. We're cooked
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-01-25 -- 2026-01-31

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending January 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Why is it legal and ok when big corp. straight tries to scam a user?
  
• Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?
  
• Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?
  
• Ask HN: Notification Overload
  
• Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II
  
• Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?
  
• Ask HN: Junior getting lost
  
• Ask HN: Do you also \"hoard\" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
  
• Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
  
• Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies