Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2023-09-17 -- 2023-09-23

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 23, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Do I need AWS? Or am I thinking this wrong?
  
• Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?
  
• Tell HN: Goodbye HTML Gmail
  
• Tell HN: AWS outage in us-west-2 AND us-east-1
  
• Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022
  
• Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?
  
• Ask HN: What low code platforms are worth using?
  
• Ask HN: Holy grails of free, online courses?
  
• Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?
  
• Ask HN: Who is using the D language and likes/doesn't like it? Why?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2023-09-10 -- 2023-09-16

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 16, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Will Google delete inactive gmail accounts that forward email?
  
• Homeland Security using “Babel X” to link SSNs to social media posts
  
• Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die?
  
• Ask HN: Tech that seems to have vanished?
  
• Ask HN: How is Rust used in the Linux kernel today?
  
• Ask HN: Has anyone here learned COBOL for fun?
  
• Ask HN: Why does Google rank the real Python documentation below content farms?
  
• Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4
  
• Ask HN: One-person startups/SaaS that are profitable?
  
• Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2023-09-03 -- 2023-09-09

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 09, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2023)
  
• Ask HN: Any LAN alternatives other than PowerLine or MOCA?
  
• Tell HN: YouTube beat uBlock Origin on Firefox
  
• Ask HN: In person industry tours and site visits?
  
• Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
  
• Ask HN: Is there a news source you read everyday? If so, what is it?
  
• Ask HN: Does Instagram suspend accounts just to get their phone numbers?
  
• Ask HN: Is there a data loss bug lurking in MS365 backup solutions?
  
• Ask HN: YC company copied our product, what can we do?
  
• Ask HN: Looking for a resource on Linux kernel module development
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2023-08-27 -- 2023-09-02

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 02, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Tell HN: Edge has added rounded corners to all web pages
  
• Ask HN: My mother is slowly losing her eyesight, how to prepare?
  
• Ask HN: Why did Python win?
  
• Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?
  
• Tell HN: UC Berkeley's CS61A/B/C are the best courses to learn CS and coding
  
• Ask HN: What is your policy regarding smartphones for your children?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)
  
• Ask HN: How to Focus Again?
  
• PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2023-08-20 -- 2023-08-26

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 26, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Tell HN: Gmail rate limiting emails from AWS SES
  
• Ask HN: SaaS operators, what is the cost:earnings ratio of your SaaS?
  
• Ask HN: Can we have link to the person bio/page when we have a black bar?
  
• Ask HN: How to monetize a website that is making views?
  
• Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered during a hiring process?
  
• Ask HN: Where to find open-source house plans?
  
• Ask HN: Undiscovered electronics/maker YouTube channels
  
• Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read?
  
• Windows popup to change competing browser search engine to Bing anticompetitive?
  
• Ask HN: What's the Situation with YouTube-Dl?