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Top of Year 2011
  1. Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?
    (17 Oct 2011 | 716 points | Comments)

  2. Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?
    (3 Apr 2011 | 465 points | Comments)

  3. Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
    (20 May 2011 | 367 points | Comments)

  4. Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
    (19 Jan 2011 | 341 points | Comments)

  5. Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011
    (27 Dec 2011 | 336 points | Comments)

  6. Ask HN: Small product, single founder success stories?
    (23 Sep 2011 | 327 points | Comments)

  7. Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011)
    (1 Jun 2011 | 326 points | Comments)

  8. Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011)
    (1 May 2011 | 324 points | Comments)

  9. Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?
    (13 May 2011 | 310 points | Comments)

  10. Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
    (1 Nov 2011 | 310 points | Comments)

  11. Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?
    (5 Oct 2011 | 305 points | Comments)

  12. Ask HN: Should we agree that this account will submit all Who is Hiring posts?
    (31 Mar 2011 | 294 points | Comments)

  13. Ask HN: How do you promote your web apps?
    (8 Sep 2011 | 292 points | Comments)

  14. Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (December 2011)
    (1 Dec 2011 | 290 points | Comments)

  15. Ask HN: How many of you built a profitable startup while having a day job?
    (2 Dec 2011 | 287 points | Comments)

  16. Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)
    (1 Apr 2011 | 285 points | Comments)

  17. Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011)
    (1 Aug 2011 | 282 points | Comments)

  18. Ask HN: How can I do something meaningful?
    (14 Aug 2011 | 278 points | Comments)

  19. Ask HN: Why can't I make as much as I make?
    (11 Apr 2011 | 262 points | Comments)

  20. Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)
    (1 Sep 2011 | 249 points | Comments)

  21. Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)
    (1 Oct 2011 | 238 points | Comments)

  22. Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (July 2011)
    (1 Jul 2011 | 233 points | Comments)

  23. Ask HN: What is your preferred Python stack for high traffic webservices?
    (22 Aug 2011 | 233 points | Comments)

  24. Ask HN: Screwed out of $12.8 million. Being Extorted. No Money for attorneys.
    (17 Oct 2011 | 221 points | Comments)

  25. Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (February 2011 Edition)
    (31 Jan 2011 | 218 points | Comments)

  26. Ask HN: Desperate Python Hacker Seeking Help and Suggestions
    (30 Jul 2011 | 212 points | Comments)

  27. Ask HN: Help, I think Amazon is stealing my ebook
    (12 Aug 2011 | 212 points | Comments)

  28. Ask HN: How do you know if you're burnt out or just being lazy?
    (21 Nov 2011 | 203 points | Comments)

  29. Ask HN: How much did you earn as an employee from an exit?
    (4 Sep 2011 | 202 points | Comments)

  30. Ask HN: Anyone have a really smart way to organize css?
    (28 Mar 2011 | 198 points | Comments)

  31. Ask HN: What's your favorite bookmarked HN thread?
    (30 Jan 2011 | 197 points | Comments)

  32. Ask HN: I really need your help (resolved)
    (20 Dec 2011 | 194 points | Comments)

  33. Ask HN: I am wasting so much of time, what can I do?
    (11 Sep 2011 | 192 points | Comments)

  34. Ask HN: How did you become a hardcore back-end developer?
    (4 Mar 2011 | 188 points | Comments)

  35. Ask HN: Help me, I fuck around on the Internet too much
    (2 Apr 2011 | 187 points | Comments)

  36. Ask HN: Do you meditate? How/Why?
    (20 Jan 2011 | 184 points | Comments)

  37. Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?
    (23 Jul 2011 | 181 points | Comments)

  38. Ask HN: Review RentPost.com
    (26 Jan 2011 | 179 points | Comments)

  39. Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?
    (23 Mar 2011 | 177 points | Comments)

  40. Ask HN: Is brogrammer a sexist term?
    (28 Oct 2011 | 177 points | Comments)

  41. Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition)
    (1 Jan 2011 | 170 points | Comments)

  42. Ask HN: How are lean startups easily accepting CC payments?
    (13 Apr 2011 | 167 points | Comments)

  43. Ask HN: What documentaries are worth watching?
    (26 Jun 2011 | 157 points | Comments)

  44. Ask HN: How Many of You Are Like Me?
    (13 Feb 2011 | 156 points | Comments)

  45. Ask HN: Is TDD/BDD hampering your startup's agility?
    (20 Feb 2011 | 156 points | Comments)

  46. Ask HN: My Startup is Going to Die Because I Messed Up
    (5 Jun 2011 | 156 points | Comments)

  47. Ask HN: What are your best life hacks?
    (13 Mar 2011 | 155 points | Comments)

  48. Ask HN: how to become a morning person?
    (16 Apr 2011 | 153 points | Comments)

  49. Ask HN: Startup promised me a job, then backed out after the internship
    (6 Nov 2011 | 151 points | Comments)

  50. Ask HN: How would you make a site resistant to government takedown?
    (15 Apr 2011 | 147 points | Comments)

  51. Ask HN: Where is the Django community?
    (18 Jul 2011 | 147 points | Comments)

  52. Ask HN: good, quick algorithms course to prepare for big tech interviews?
    (19 Sep 2011 | 143 points | Comments)

  53. Ask HN: Please review my site "Smoke Signal"
    (19 Oct 2011 | 143 points | Comments)

  54. Ask HN: I think My code isn't Good enough
    (3 Sep 2011 | 140 points | Comments)

  55. Ask HN: Who Is Hiring (For Freelance/Part Time Remote Work) February 2011.
    (14 Feb 2011 | 137 points | Comments)

  56. Ask HN: Advice for a young, self-taught programmer
    (12 Jun 2011 | 136 points | Comments)

  57. Ask HN: What data structure does our brain use?
    (8 Oct 2011 | 135 points | Comments)

  58. Ask HN: What books to read on developing mental models and increasing cognition?
    (25 Nov 2011 | 133 points | Comments)

  59. Ask HN: A Well Funded Competitor Has Launched Before Me What Should I do?
    (27 Aug 2011 | 132 points | Comments)

  60. Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)
    (1 Jan 2011 | 130 points | Comments)

  61. Ask HN: I'm an unemployed programmer in SF that will work for minimum wage
    (6 Mar 2011 | 127 points | Comments)

  62. Ask HN: What kind of personal financial investment do you do?
    (9 Feb 2011 | 125 points | Comments)

  63. Ask HN: Does anyone actually code at a hackathon?
    (19 Feb 2011 | 123 points | Comments)

  64. Ask HN: Do Americans stand a chance on freelance sites?
    (4 Jun 2011 | 122 points | Comments)

  65. Ask HN: Obtaining initial users for a startup
    (19 Feb 2011 | 119 points | Comments)

  66. Ask HN: Just got $200k from an angel, where do I stick it? Savings? CDs?
    (30 Jan 2011 | 118 points | Comments)

  67. Ask HN: What would you like to see in Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot?
    (14 Mar 2011 | 118 points | Comments)

  68. Ask HN: Tell me about your failed startup.
    (10 Jan 2011 | 117 points | Comments)

  69. Ask HN: I died 2 times, coma, learned how to walk again, code, now I need advice
    (11 Mar 2011 | 117 points | Comments)

  70. ASK HN: What methods do you use to gain early customers for your startup?
    (19 Apr 2011 | 116 points | Comments)

  71. Ask HN: Are freelancer sites (e.g. Odesk, Elance) useless?
    (12 May 2011 | 116 points | Comments)

  72. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2011)
    (1 Aug 2011 | 115 points | Comments)

  73. Ask HN: any of the HNers have kids & work from home?
    (11 May 2011 | 112 points | Comments)

  74. Ask HN: What Android apps do you use?
    (2 Oct 2011 | 109 points | Comments)

  75. Ask HN: Hackers falling in love
    (11 Feb 2011 | 106 points | Comments)

  76. Ask HN: Anyone on HN running a web startup with 50K+ a year net profit?
    (20 Mar 2011 | 103 points | Comments)

  77. Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black?
    (20 Dec 2011 | 103 points | Comments)

  78. Ask HN: I'm considering leaving a startup to look for big-company jobs (really).
    (19 Mar 2011 | 102 points | Comments)

  79. Ask HN: Please stop "This."
    (16 Nov 2011 | 102 points | Comments)