Ask Hacker News Weekly

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?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-09-20 -- 2026-09-26

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What is the most career altering course or book you have gone through?
  
• Ask HN: How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?
  
• Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?
  
• Tell HN: Claude Code just accepted and signed a contract for me. Without asking
  
• Ask HN: I just talked to an AI-obsessed client, and I need a shower afterwards
  
• Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
  
• Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
  
• Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
  
• Tell HN: Codex Is Down [fixed]
  
• OpenAI Codex agents go rogue and consumes USD 78,000 without authorization
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-09-13 -- 2026-09-19

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
  
• Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?
  
• Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
  
• Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
  
• Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
  
• Tell HN: An inside view of Montana's new biotech law
  
• Open-sourced jev architecture last year with model,paper and dataset
  
• Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
  
• Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2026-09-06 -- 2026-09-12

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 12, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
  
• Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
  
• Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
  
• Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
  
• Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
  
• I'm going back to coding by hand
  
• DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
  
• Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?
  
• Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
  
• Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?