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2026-09-27 08:00:00

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
  

2026-09-20 08:00:00

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?
  

2026-09-13 08:00:00

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?
  

2026-09-06 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending September 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Why do I lose my passion and want to do nothing?
  
• Tell HN: Dropbox Data Breach
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
  
• Ask HN: How do you survive a job you hate which is slowly making you sick?
  
• Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
  
• Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?
  
• Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
  
• Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
  
• Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
  

2026-08-30 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 29, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Coding Agents killed my identity. How do you feel?
  
• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
  
• Ask HN: Why do corporate failures always seem to punish the wrong people?
  
• Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?
  
• XCancel also down, at least for time being
  
• XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp
  
• Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
  
• Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down
  
• Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products
  
• Tell HN: Man, AI is killing my brain
  

2026-08-23 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending August 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
  
• Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
  
• Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
  
• Claude Seems Down
  
• Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance
  
• GitHub down again? no PR access
  
• Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
  
• Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
  
• Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?
  
• Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week