Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-01-11 -- 2026-01-17

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

• Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
  
• Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
  
• The $LANG Programming Language
  
• Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
  
• Ask HN: Share your personal website
  
• Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
  
• Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?
  
• Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
  
• Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-01-04 -- 2026-01-10

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

• Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?
  
• Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago
  
• Ask HN: When do we expose \"Humans as Tools\" so LLM agents can call us on demand?
  
• Ask HN: Reading list for being a better engineer?
  
• Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?
  
• RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids?
  
• Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?
  
• Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
  
• Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
  
• Claude keeps nagging about \"Help improve Claude\" inspite of previous decline
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2025-12-28 -- 2026-01-03

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

• Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal
  
• Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
  
• Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results
  
• Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?
  
• Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?
  
• Tell HN: Happy New Year
  
• Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
  
• Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
  

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?