Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2016-05-22 -- 2016-05-28

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 28, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What is wrong with Twitter?
  
• Ask HN: Why is it still so hard to host your own email/calendar that just works?
  
• Ask HN: Disabling paste in password boxes - why is it practiced?
  
• Ask HN: Has all interesting desktop software already been written?
  
• Ask HN: Passive Income Suggestions 2016
  
• Ask HN: How do you encrypt your laptops?
  
• YC startup Coinbase has been hacked? Unable to withdraw $25,000
  
• Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2016?
  
• Ask HN: What's the biggest risk you took in your career that paid off?
  
• Ask HN: How do you handle large Python projects?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2016-05-15 -- 2016-05-21

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 21, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How long did it take you to get your first dev job?
  
• Ask HN: Is there a reasonable, actually integrated Web IDE out there?
  
• Ask HN: How do you use Amazon Echo?
  
• Ask HN: Why does a pizza app know my location and 911 doesn't?
  
• Ask HN: What are some rite-of-passage style projects for programmers?
  
• Stanza: A New Optionally-Typed General Purpose Language from UC Berkeley
  
• Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?
  
• Ask HN: Do you spend more time coding or debugging?
  
• Ask HN: What is an open-source alternative to Google Home?
  
• Ask HN: Why do browsers still support pop up dialogs and other bad behavior?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2016-05-08 -- 2016-05-14

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 14, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What are the cons of Google Polymer?
  
• Ask HN: Anyone making a living off of desktop applications?
  
• Ask HN: Anyone looking for a cofounder?
  
• Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment complaint at my startup?
  
• Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read?
  
• Ask HN: Do I have to go through recruiters nowadays, how do you find new jobs?
  
• Ask HN: Sites that you visit daily?
  
• Ask HN: Which hackers do you look up to the most?
  
• Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
  
• Ask HN: Who productively writes code on their smartphone? How?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2016-05-01 -- 2016-05-07

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 07, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Warn HN: stacks made executable on GNU by mere presence of assembly code
  
• Ask HN: What are examples of GitHub repositories with high code quality?
  
• Ask HN: Where can I learn how to build a recommender system?
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
  
• Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2016)
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2016)
  
• Ask HN: My side project is ramen-profitable. What do I do now?
  
• Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3
  
• Ask HN: If you restarted your career, what would you do differently?
  
• Tell HN: Apply HN apology and revision
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2016-04-24 -- 2016-04-30

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending April 30, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How do you decide what to learn next?
  
• Ask HN: Books to learn advanced C programming
  
• Vim vs. IDE's
  
• Ask HN: Do wellness incentives help employers save money on taxes and insurance?
  
• Ask HN: How do you deal with so many project management systems?
  
• Fuck mandrill here's how you move to Amazon SES and pay 1/8 of the price
  
• Tell HN: Apply HN applications now closed, let's discuss the next step
  
• Ask HN: Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Watson or is it just BS?
  
• Ask HN: How do you write concepts? (Structure / Tools / Howto)
  
• Ask HN: Can the “Who is Hiring?” post include a bit about the interview process?