Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2018-07-22 -- 2018-07-28

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 28, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How do you organize/track your personal goals?
  
• Ask HN: Got a CS degree, but I’m unable to be programmer. What can I do?
  
• Ask HN: Please help me recall a certain programmer horror story
  
• Ask HN: As a CTO, what is your most frustrating problem with technical debt?
  
• Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?
  
• Ask HN: Where can one learn about the history of the internet and the protocols?
  
• Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?
  
• Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?
  
• Ask HN: How to raise a seed round for people with no elite connections?
  
• Ask HN: My Microsoft account has been suspended by Microsoft without details
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2018-07-15 -- 2018-07-21

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 21, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How to be found as a technology co-founder?
  
• Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
  
• Ask HN: Should I abandon a functioning SaaS with no paying users?
  
• Ask HN: Going to lead a struggling dev team in a different culture, now what?
  
• Ask HN: Researchers: What practical research hasn't been commercialized?
  
• Ask HN: How to stop Google indexing dynamic search pages?
  
• Ask HN: How do you sell to governments and large organizations?
  
• Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning security and pen testing?
  
• Ask HN: What are the things keep in mind while giving/preparing for a tech talk?
  
• Ask HN: Were you happy moving your API from REST to GraphQL?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2018-07-08 -- 2018-07-14

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 14, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What you wish you'd known before getting into JavaScript?
  
• Ask HN: How did you find your passion?
  
• Ask HN: Have you ever chosen Postgres over Mongo and regretted it?
  
• Ask HN: Anyone rather just be alone during work day?
  
• Ask HN: As a team lead how to handle project going off the rails?
  
• Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?
  
• Ask HN: What are your heuristics for deciding which HN links to click on?
  
• Ask HN: Are you a remote worker that escaped to the countryside?
  
• Ask HN: How to find an effective career coach?
  
• Ask HN: Why do you keep a personal knowledge base?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2018-07-01 -- 2018-07-07

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 07, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What highly scalable thing have you built with Go?
  
• Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)
  
• Ask HN: Who are some unsung heroes in open source that need more support?
  
• Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?
  
• Ask HN: Best programming language or theory to learn before learning Rust?
  
• Ask HN: How do you organise and discover your team's internal scripts?
  
• Ask HN: What talks or videos do you suggest to watch on a long flight?
  
• I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
  
• Ask HN: What are your favorite statistics and probability textbooks?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2018-06-24 -- 2018-06-30

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending June 30, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How to start working as a contractor?
  
• Ask HN: Why do managers get paid more than individual contributors?
  
• Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
  
• Ask HN: Which project management and team communication software do you use?
  
• Ask HN: What's the best documentation you've ever read?
  
• Ask HN: How to ditch an established online identity and start over?
  
• Ask HN: Anyone else using Hacker News as a `dopamine hit`?
  
• Ask HN: Would you rather work for Google or a smaller high growth company?
  
• I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA
  
• Ask HN: Old CS lecturer looking for advice from current and recent students