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2025-06-22 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending June 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What is the latest on treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer?
  
• Ask HN: Is Firebase Down?
  
• Ask HN: Do you think there's censorship on HN?
  
• Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170
  
• Ask HN: How to Deal with a Bad Manager?
  
• BMW ConnectedDrive lets me control my returned rental car (Sixt)
  
• Is GitHub Down?
  
• I'm 16 and Trying to Save Coral Reefs with Open-Source Symbiotic Biotech
  
• Ask HN: How can we keep (part of) the web human?
  
• Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes
  

2025-06-15 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending June 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• How to get started with writing tech video essays
  
• Ask HN: How to learn CUDA to professional level
  
• Ask HN: In 15 years, what will a gas station visit look like?
  
• Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?
  
• Ask HN: What API or software are people using for transcription?
  
• Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
  
• Everything Is Down
  
• Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing?
  
• Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem?
  
• Ask HN: What is your fallback job if AI takes away your career?
  

2025-06-08 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending June 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair?
  
• Ask HN: How are parents who program teaching their kids today?
  
• Ask HN: How do I learn robotics in 2025?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
  
• Ask HN: What's with the repeated job posts on \"Who's hiring\"?
  
• Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing
  
• Ask HN: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do?
  
• Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?
  
• Ask HN: Any good tools for viewing congressional bills?
  

2025-06-01 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Tell HN: The Hetzner Experience - Invisible Outages
  
• I spent 15 years developing a tool to make sense of software version numbers
  
• Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
  
• Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?
  
• Every wondered how Facebook spoofs Gmail message list snippet text?
  
• Ask HN: Stopping YC backed business from advertizing fake jobs at my company
  
• Ask HN: Tired of all the AI, what other cool tech is out there?
  
• Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?
  
• Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?
  

2025-05-25 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: What's your go-to message queue in 2025?
  
• Ask HN: Conversational AI to Learn a Language
  
• Ask HN: Do people actually pay for small web tools?
  
• Ask HN: When will managers be replaced by AI?
  
• Ask HN: Selling software to company I work for as an employee
  
• Ask HN: How do you promote your personal projects with a limited budget?
  
• Ask HN: How to Make Friendster Great?
  
• Ask HN: Has anyone been able to overcome crippling executive dysfunction?
  
• Ask HN: What HN posts inspired or changed your perspective the most?
  
• Ask HN: Go deep into AI/LLMs or just use them as tools?
  

2025-05-18 08:00:00

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending May 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Getting tired of Helm – any better way to handle deployments in Kubernetes?
  
• Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years?
  
• Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
  
• Ask HN: Is Slack Down?
  
• Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
  
• Ask HN: How do you store the knowledge gained in a day?
  
• Ask HN: How are you cleaning and transforming data before imports/uploads?
  
• Ask HN: Email Provider for Main Account?
  
• I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
  
• Ask HN: Facing unemployment – what now?