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Top of Year 2013
  1. Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate?
    (23 Oct 2013 | 763 points | Comments)

  2. Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?
    (8 Apr 2013 | 523 points | Comments)

  3. Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
    (17 Feb 2013 | 494 points | Comments)

  4. Ask HN: I'm quadriplegic – can you help me with my security?
    (16 Jul 2013 | 486 points | Comments)

  5. Ask HN: Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox?
    (5 Mar 2013 | 470 points | Comments)

  6. Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin?
    (14 Apr 2013 | 457 points | Comments)

  7. Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
    (23 Sep 2013 | 444 points | Comments)

  8. Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
    (26 Oct 2013 | 435 points | Comments)

  9. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)
    (1 Oct 2013 | 399 points | Comments)

  10. Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles
    (31 Jan 2013 | 398 points | Comments)

  11. Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?
    (24 Jun 2013 | 374 points | Comments)

  12. Ask HN: Google employees, why is G+ more important than your users?
    (17 Nov 2013 | 353 points | Comments)

  13. Ask HN: How to increase self-discipline as a self-employed person?
    (29 Dec 2013 | 343 points | Comments)

  14. Ask HN: I'm a chronic procrastinator – how do I break it?
    (2 Aug 2013 | 340 points | Comments)

  15. Ask HN: I'm lost. Please help
    (16 May 2013 | 334 points | Comments)

  16. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)
    (1 May 2013 | 327 points | Comments)

  17. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)
    (1 Apr 2013 | 320 points | Comments)

  18. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013)
    (1 Jul 2013 | 309 points | Comments)

  19. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2013)
    (1 Sep 2013 | 304 points | Comments)

  20. Ask HN: How Can I leave Syria now and get asylum in Europe (Germany)
    (30 Aug 2013 | 298 points | Comments)

  21. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)
    (1 Mar 2013 | 286 points | Comments)

  22. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)
    (1 Dec 2013 | 286 points | Comments)

  23. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)
    (1 Aug 2013 | 279 points | Comments)

  24. Ask HN: I'm 15, won a grant to develop a suicide prevention app, what next?
    (18 Nov 2013 | 252 points | Comments)

  25. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
    (1 Jun 2013 | 249 points | Comments)

  26. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)
    (1 Jan 2013 | 245 points | Comments)

  27. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)
    (1 Nov 2013 | 240 points | Comments)

  28. Ask HN: How do you stop regretting?
    (26 Jan 2013 | 233 points | Comments)

  29. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2013)
    (1 Feb 2013 | 223 points | Comments)

  30. Ask HN: A patent troll is targeting my transit app
    (24 Feb 2013 | 219 points | Comments)

  31. Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2013?
    (28 Dec 2013 | 209 points | Comments)

  32. Ask HN: HN Political News Overload?
    (29 Jul 2013 | 206 points | Comments)

  33. Ask HN: Alternatives to HN
    (6 Jun 2013 | 197 points | Comments)

  34. Ask HN: What happened to Proposition HN? ("$8000 for your side project")
    (19 Aug 2013 | 197 points | Comments)

  35. Ask HN: Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?
    (1 Dec 2013 | 195 points | Comments)

  36. Ask HN: Take down my reverse-engineered Snapchat lib because they asked?
    (22 Jul 2013 | 194 points | Comments)

  37. Ask HN: Have you ever been sued by your startup?
    (25 Mar 2013 | 191 points | Comments)

  38. Ask HN: Passive income ideas?
    (19 Jun 2013 | 190 points | Comments)

  39. Ask HN: Google workers, sister is visiting S.J. Can she tour the Googleplex?
    (11 May 2013 | 189 points | Comments)

  40. Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
    (17 Nov 2013 | 182 points | Comments)

  41. Ask HN: Does anyone know what's going on at Coinbase?
    (23 Mar 2013 | 180 points | Comments)

  42. Ask HN: What should I do?
    (2 Apr 2013 | 176 points | Comments)

  43. Ask HN: Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999?
    (29 Apr 2013 | 176 points | Comments)

  44. Ask HN: and now what?
    (24 May 2013 | 169 points | Comments)

  45. Ask HN: When did people start paying for your SaaS and why?
    (13 Jul 2013 | 169 points | Comments)

  46. Ask HN: How to best acquire theoretical computer science knowledge?
    (7 Sep 2013 | 167 points | Comments)

  47. Ask HN: Why can't I see downvote or upvote arrows anywhere?
    (26 Oct 2013 | 164 points | Comments)

  48. Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
    (10 Dec 2013 | 160 points | Comments)

  49. Ask HN: How does one create a fake identity?
    (7 Jul 2013 | 159 points | Comments)

  50. Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?
    (3 Dec 2013 | 155 points | Comments)

  51. Ask HN: Business Dying. Please Help.
    (2 Mar 2013 | 154 points | Comments)

  52. Ask HN: To everybody who uses MapReduce: what problems do you solve?
    (10 Nov 2013 | 153 points | Comments)

  53. Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?
    (27 May 2013 | 152 points | Comments)

  54. Ask HN: Did your YC (or other incubator) startup fail? What are you doing now?
    (2 Oct 2013 | 151 points | Comments)

  55. Ask HN: Why can't I login to HN via Firefox?
    (3 May 2013 | 150 points | Comments)

  56. Ask HN: How do you deal with Rabbit Hole Syndrome?
    (10 Feb 2013 | 140 points | Comments)

  57. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013)
    (1 May 2013 | 138 points | Comments)

  58. Ask HN: Has anyone here self-published a book? Any advice?
    (16 Jul 2013 | 137 points | Comments)

  59. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2013)
    (1 Aug 2013 | 135 points | Comments)

  60. Ask HN: What's the best place in Europe to live and work cheaply?
    (9 Nov 2013 | 132 points | Comments)

  61. Ask HN: Is it just me or has YouTube gone fanatical on ads?
    (29 Nov 2013 | 132 points | Comments)

  62. Ask HN: Making extra income with books
    (31 Dec 2013 | 129 points | Comments)

  63. Ask HN: Congress is Passing an Internet Sales Tax: Why Doesn't HN Care?
    (23 Apr 2013 | 128 points | Comments)

  64. Ask HN: Open Source alternatives to Disqus?
    (29 Nov 2013 | 124 points | Comments)

  65. Ask HN: Where do you find interesting papers to read?
    (3 Nov 2013 | 123 points | Comments)

  66. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2013)
    (1 Jul 2013 | 122 points | Comments)

  67. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013)
    (1 Oct 2013 | 122 points | Comments)

  68. Ask HN: Making a living selling software components, not SaaS?
    (19 Oct 2013 | 119 points | Comments)

  69. Ask HN: How do you apply for a tech job?
    (18 Jul 2013 | 118 points | Comments)

  70. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2013)
    (1 Nov 2013 | 118 points | Comments)

  71. Ask HN: What is your daily reading list?
    (26 Apr 2013 | 117 points | Comments)

  72. Ask HN: Can we help the police sort through the photos of the Boston Marathon?
    (16 Apr 2013 | 116 points | Comments)

  73. Ask HN: Buffer got hacked - does anyone know details?
    (26 Oct 2013 | 116 points | Comments)

  74. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2013)
    (1 Dec 2013 | 115 points | Comments)

  75. Ask HN: Which developer laptop should I buy?
    (20 Jan 2013 | 114 points | Comments)

  76. Ask HN: Any advice for someone getting out of prison after 18 years?
    (24 Jan 2013 | 113 points | Comments)

  77. Ask HN: Intermediate Python learning resources?
    (6 Jul 2013 | 113 points | Comments)

  78. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2013)
    (1 Jun 2013 | 112 points | Comments)

  79. Ask HN: Has the "Who's Hiring" thing worked out for anyone?
    (2 Jun 2013 | 112 points | Comments)

  80. Ask HN: Getting paid to work on open source full-time?
    (2 Nov 2013 | 112 points | Comments)

  81. Ask HN: What kind of side projects are you working on?
    (26 Nov 2013 | 110 points | Comments)

  82. Ask HN: How to fire your co-founder?
    (26 Dec 2013 | 110 points | Comments)

  83. Ask HN: How am I supposed to start over as an amnesiac ex-software developer?
    (13 Apr 2013 | 109 points | Comments)

  84. Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?
    (28 Dec 2013 | 109 points | Comments)

  85. Ask HN: Can use the #1 supercomputer for any project I want. What should it be?
    (11 Jan 2013 | 107 points | Comments)

  86. Ask HN: How did you find your early adopters?
    (13 Mar 2013 | 107 points | Comments)

  87. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2013)
    (1 Apr 2013 | 106 points | Comments)

  88. Ask HN: Becoming a Freelancer in 6 months?
    (26 Jun 2013 | 106 points | Comments)

  89. Ask HN: How did you move from a salaried job to contracting?
    (2 Jun 2013 | 105 points | Comments)

  90. Ask HN: Where can I find a software job that helps society?
    (12 Nov 2013 | 103 points | Comments)

  91. Ask HN: Tools you use for remote working?
    (14 Dec 2013 | 103 points | Comments)

  92. Ask HN: How many "self-taught" programmers and how did you do it?
    (30 Sep 2013 | 102 points | Comments)

  93. Ask HN: Google Chrome heuristic warnings pose threat to our business
    (1 Jul 2013 | 100 points | Comments)