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Top thread - Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?
Top thread - Ask HN: How to Deal with a Bad Manager?
Top thread - Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing?
Top thread - Ask HN: How do I learn robotics in 2025?
Top thread - Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
Top thread - Ask HN: Go deep into AI/LLMs or just use them as tools?
Top thread - Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
Top thread - Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
Top thread - Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
Top thread - Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model
Top thread - Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?
Top thread - Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?
Top thread - Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
Top thread - Ask HN: Difficulties with going back to school
Top thread - Ask HN: How do I escape homelessness after rebuilding my mental health?
Top thread - Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?
Top thread - Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?
Top thread - Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
Issue #311 | February 23, 2025
Top thread - Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?
Issue #310 | February 16, 2025
Top thread - Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO
Top thread - Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
Top thread - Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?
Top thread - Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
Top thread - Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?
Top thread - Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things
Top thread - Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?
Issue #303 | December 29, 2024
Top thread - Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?
Issue #302 | December 22, 2024
Top thread - Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
Issue #301 | December 15, 2024
Top thread - Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
Top thread - Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from?
Top thread - Ask HN: What are your most regretted tech purchases?
Issue #298 | November 24, 2024
Top thread - Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts
Issue #297 | November 17, 2024
Top thread - Ask HN: How to deal with a serious mental health breakdown?
Issue #296 | November 10, 2024
Top thread - Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)
Top thread - Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
Top thread - Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?
Top thread - Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
Top thread - Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?
Top thread - Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
Issue #290 | September 29, 2024
Top thread - Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?
Issue #289 | September 22, 2024
Top thread - Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?
Issue #288 | September 15, 2024
Top thread - Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?
Issue #287 | September 8, 2024
Top thread - Ask HN: How to store and share passwords in a company?
Issue #286 | September 1, 2024
Top thread - Ask HN: Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away?
Top thread - Ask HN: How do you work as a tech lead?
Top thread - Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?
Top thread - Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
Top thread - Ask HN: What are you using to parse PDFs for RAG?
Top thread - Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?
Top thread - Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?
Top thread - Ask HN: How do browsers isolate internal audio from microphone input?
Top thread - Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
Top thread - Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?
Top thread - Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?
Top thread - Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
Top thread - Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
Top thread - Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
Top thread - Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?
Top thread - Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do you manage your code?
Top thread - Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
Top thread - Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?
Top thread - Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
Top thread - Ask HN: I want to create IMDB for open source projects
Top thread - Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
Top thread - Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
Top thread - Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
Top thread - Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?
Top thread - Ask HN: What is not going to change in future?
Top thread - Ask HN: How can I learn about performance optimization?
Top thread - Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?
Issue #259 | February 25, 2024
Top thread - Ask HN: How many of you Apple developers still use Objective C?
Issue #258 | February 18, 2024
Top thread - Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today – alternatives?
Issue #257 | February 11, 2024
Top thread - Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?
Top thread - Ask HN: Those who've joined a friend's startup as an employee, how did that go?
Top thread - Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
Top thread - Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
Top thread - Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?
Top thread - Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?
Issue #251 | December 31, 2023
Top thread - Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023?
Issue #250 | December 24, 2023
Top thread - Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story?
Issue #249 | December 17, 2023
Top thread - Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
Issue #248 | December 10, 2023
Top thread - Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
Top thread - Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
Issue #246 | November 26, 2023
Top thread - Ask HN: How should I setup a phone for a newly blind relative?
Issue #245 | November 19, 2023
Top thread - Ask HN: What are you reading these days?
Issue #244 | November 12, 2023
Top thread - Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
Top thread - Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose?
Top thread - Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?
Top thread - Ask HN: 20% of LinkedIn's recent layoffs were managers
Top thread - Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
Top thread - Ask HN: Does your microwave interfere with Bluetooth? Mine does
Top thread - Ask HN: Tips for Solopreneur?
Issue #237 | September 24, 2023
Top thread - Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?
Issue #236 | September 17, 2023
Top thread - Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die?
Issue #235 | September 10, 2023
Top thread - Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
Issue #234 | September 3, 2023
Top thread - Ask HN: Why did Python win?
Top thread - Ask HN: Where to find open-source house plans?
Top thread - Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?
Top thread - Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?
Top thread - Ask HN: Is anyone using PyPy for real work?
Top thread - Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?
Top thread - Ask HN: Whatever happened to the “coming wave” of delivery drones?
Top thread - Ask HN: Problems for the next decade?
Top thread - Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
Top thread - Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware?
Top thread - Ask HN: IP cameras that don't require an app or internet?
Top thread - Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
Top thread - Ask HN: Is it time to resurrect a Usenet clone?
Top thread - Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?
Top thread - Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?
Top thread - Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper?
Top thread - Ask HN: What is new in algorithms and data structures these days?
Top thread - Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?
Top thread - Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
Top thread - Ask HN: Is prompt engineering just snake oil?
Top thread - Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?
Top thread - Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?
Top thread - Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
Top thread - Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowledge?
Top thread - Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?
Top thread - Ask HN: How is the SVB situation affecting your startup?
Top thread - Ask HN: Has anyone started over outside of tech?
Issue #207 | February 26, 2023
Top thread - Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering?
Issue #206 | February 19, 2023
Top thread - Ask HN: I just want to have fun programming again
Issue #205 | February 12, 2023
Top thread - Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?
Top thread - Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
Top thread - Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
Top thread - Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is not compromised?
Top thread - Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming?
Top thread - Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
Top thread - Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?
Issue #198 | December 25, 2022
Top thread - Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?
Issue #197 | December 18, 2022
Top thread - Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?
Issue #196 | December 11, 2022
Top thread - Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?
Top thread - Ask HN: Are you a “lifer”? If so why?
Issue #194 | November 27, 2022
Top thread - Ask HN: Why isn't remote work advertised as a pro environment initiative?
Issue #193 | November 20, 2022
Top thread - Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
Issue #192 | November 13, 2022
Top thread - Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
Top thread - Ask HN: What was being a software developer like about 30 years ago?
Top thread - Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?
Top thread - Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote working rainbow?
Top thread - Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?
Top thread - Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?
Top thread - Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?”
Issue #185 | September 25, 2022
Top thread - Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
Issue #184 | September 18, 2022
Top thread - Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
Issue #183 | September 11, 2022
Top thread - Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?
Issue #182 | September 4, 2022
Top thread - Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?
Top thread - Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?
Top thread - Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?
Top thread - Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
Top thread - Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?
Top thread - Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
Top thread - Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
Top thread - Ask HN: Has anyone here worked on the Windows kernel?
Top thread - Ask HN: I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do?
Top thread - Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?
Top thread - Ask HN: Having trouble getting senior applicants, wondering what to do about it
Top thread - Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
Top thread - Ask HN: I miss Usenet. Are there any modern equivalents?
Top thread - Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around
Top thread - Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
Top thread - Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’
Top thread - Ask HN: How do you deal with rude interviewers?
Top thread - Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?
Top thread - Ask HN: Teach me something new
Top thread - Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
Top thread - Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?
Top thread - Ask HN: Share your personal site
Top thread - Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?
Top thread - Ask HN: Who operates at scale without containers?
Top thread - Ask HN: I'm So Lonely
Top thread - Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
Top thread - Ask HN: The book that did it for you in math and/or CS?
Issue #155 | February 27, 2022
Top thread - Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?
Issue #154 | February 20, 2022
Top thread - Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?
Issue #153 | February 13, 2022
Top thread - Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?
Top thread - Ask HN: At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life
Top thread - Ask HN: Gmail account security
Top thread - Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
Top thread - Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?
Top thread - Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?
Top thread - Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?
Issue #146 | December 26, 2021
Top thread - Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
Issue #145 | December 19, 2021
Top thread - Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?
Issue #144 | December 12, 2021
Top thread - Ask HN: Why is everything changing too fast?
Top thread - Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?
Issue #142 | November 28, 2021
Top thread - Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
Issue #141 | November 21, 2021
Top thread - Ask HN: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing
Issue #140 | November 14, 2021
Top thread - Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?
Top thread - Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
Top thread - Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
Top thread - Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?
Top thread - Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today?
Top thread - Ask HN: Where are all the old Show HNs?
Issue #134 | September 26, 2021
Top thread - Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
Issue #133 | September 19, 2021
Top thread - Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
Issue #132 | September 12, 2021
Top thread - Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't
Issue #131 | September 5, 2021
Top thread - Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?
Top thread - Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?
Top thread - Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?
Top thread - Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?
Top thread - Ask HN: Has anyone fully embraced an event-driven architecture?
Top thread - Ask HN: My country may be in the midst of a coup – how should I get prepared?
Top thread - Ask HN: for senior positions is it advisable to list side projects on your CV?
Top thread - Ask HN: Recruiters want people who do side projects, yet contracts forbid them?
Top thread - Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder? (July 2021)
Top thread - Ask HN: Best “I brought down production” story?
Top thread - Ask HN: I was hit with a patent troll lawsuit, how do I deal with it?
Top thread - Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?
Top thread - Tell HN: SMS-based two-factor authentication is not secure
Top thread - Ask HN: Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo
Top thread - Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
Top thread - Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?
Top thread - Ask HN: How to negotiate continuing to work remotely?
Top thread - Ask HN: How to attract perm Snr Engs when the contract market is so lucrative?
Top thread - Ask HN: What diagrams do you use in software development?
Top thread - Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google shows me ads for it. Why?
Top thread - Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
Top thread - Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
Top thread - Ask HN: I've realized I'm a bad software engineer and I'm over 30, what's next?
Top thread - Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
Top thread - Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
Top thread - Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?
Top thread - Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery?
Issue #104 | February 28, 2021
Top thread - Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store
Issue #103 | February 21, 2021
Top thread - Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?
Issue #102 | February 14, 2021
Top thread - Ask HN: Why aren't you coding?
Top thread - Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
Top thread - East Coast Internet Outage
Top thread - Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
Top thread - Ask HN: What are you working on?
Top thread - Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
Top thread - Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
Top thread - Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
Top thread - Google outage – resolved
Top thread - Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
Top thread - Ask HN: Top Coursera Courses?
Top thread - Tell HN: Thank You Dang
Top thread - Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on professional development?
Top thread - Ask HN: Wouldn't it be great to be able to follow fellow HN users?
Top thread - Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?
Top thread - Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
Top thread - Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?
Top thread - Ask HN: Why are there no open source 2d printers?
Top thread - I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Top thread - Ask HN: How to learn sales?
Issue #82 | September 27, 2020
Top thread - Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?
Issue #81 | September 20, 2020
Top thread - Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
Issue #80 | September 13, 2020
Top thread - Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
Top thread - Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
Top thread - Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?
Top thread - Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
Top thread - Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that most people don't know?
Top thread - Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?
Top thread - Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?
Top thread - Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?
Top thread - Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
Top thread - Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
Top thread - Ask HN: After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuanced discussions?
Top thread - Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
Top thread - Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?
Top thread - Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old
Top thread - Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?
Top thread - Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology
Top thread - Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
Top thread - Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
Top thread - Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life
Top thread - Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?
Top thread - Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
Top thread - Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
Top thread - Ask HN: What are you learning?
Top thread - Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
Top thread - Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?
Top thread - Ask HN: Have you been laid off?
Top thread - Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real?
Top thread - Ask HN: Good ways to capture institutional knowledge?
Top thread - Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?
Top thread - Larry Tesler Has Died
Top thread - Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?
Top thread - Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
Top thread - Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?
Top thread - Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?
Top thread - Thank HN: You helped me get a new job
Top thread - Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
Top thread - Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
Top thread - Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?
Top thread - Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?
Top thread - Ask HN: We are shutting down our startup, I get our code. What now?
Top thread - Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?
Top thread - Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results
Top thread - Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
Top thread - Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?
Top thread - Ask HN: How do you make sure your servers are up as a single founder?
Top thread - Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
Top thread - Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
Top thread - Ask HN: What do you self-host?
Top thread - Ask HN: How do I make the move to consultant?
Top thread - Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
Issue #30 | September 29, 2019
Top thread - Ask HN: PostgreSQL or MySQL?
Issue #29 | September 22, 2019
Top thread - Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?
Issue #28 | September 15, 2019
Top thread - Ask HN: Are you ok?
Top thread - Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
Top thread - Ask HN: Recommended resources to learn the Linux kernel and OS theory?
Top thread - Ask HN: What book to read to get a footing in CS theory?
Top thread - Tell HN: Danny Cohen Has Died
Top thread - Ask HN: The most useful Mac keyboard shortcuts?
Top thread - Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?
Top thread - Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?
Top thread - Ask HN: How to deal with constantly getting cut off in work discussions?
Top thread - Ask HN: What are your favorite YouTube channels to learn stuff?
Top thread - Ask HN: What are you working on?
Top thread - Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
Top thread - Ask HN: What are the signs that you have a great manager?
Top thread - Ask HN: Good tech talks on how analytics systems are implemented?
Top thread - Google Cloud Is Down
Top thread - Ask HN: How can I work towards building a company while employed?
Top thread - Ask HN: Low self confidence and self esteem. How to improve?
Top thread - Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
Top thread - Ask HN: What was your experience starting a tech consultancy?
Top thread - Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?
Top thread - Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
Top thread - Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
Top thread - Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?
Top thread - Ask HN: Amazon delisted me – what do I do?
Top thread - Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these days?
Top thread - Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?
Top thread - Ask HN: Startup failed after years of work – Can I even get a job now?
Top thread - Ask HN: What made you change your mind about a programming language/paradigm?