Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-10-18 -- 2026-10-24

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Triplet of 'Ghostly' Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is – and Isn't
  
• Ask HN: How do you deal with AI output of your boss?
  
• Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
  
• Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)
  
• GCP Europe-West2 Outage
  
• Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming
  
• Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
  
• eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business;
  
• Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
  
• Median product \"lifespan\" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-10-11 -- 2026-10-17

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?
  
• Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?
  
• Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
  
• Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?
  
• Ask HN: Where has creativity in software gone?
  
• Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer?
  
• Ask HN: Why do people say \"I built it\" when we should say \"Claude built it\"?
  
• Ask HN: Many SWEngs out there are considering re-training
  
• Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain
  
• Anthropic Console overcharged my card 100x due to internationalization input bug
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-10-04 -- 2026-10-10

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

• Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
  
• Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
  
• Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners
  
• Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
  
• Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
  
• Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?
  
• Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
  
• Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
  
• Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
  
• If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-09-27 -- 2026-10-03

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending October 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
  
• Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?
  
• Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?
  
• Ask HN: What are you reading?
  
• Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
  
• OpenAI halved the allowance of the $200 plan to 10x
  
• 40 years of writing code. I didn't see the end coming
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Is anybody producing good code with coding agents?