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Top of Year 2014

1. Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support
   (8 Jul 2014 | 875 points | Comments)

2. Ask HN: 16-hour work week jobs?
   (6 Jul 2014 | 662 points | Comments)

3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?
   (2 May 2014 | 559 points | Comments)

4. Ask HN: What happens to older developers?
   (10 Mar 2014 | 554 points | Comments)

5. Ask HN: Is it me or ...?
   (26 Mar 2014 | 465 points | Comments)

6. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)
   (1 Aug 2014 | 449 points | Comments)

7. Ask HN: CTO wants me to leave
   (13 Apr 2014 | 403 points | Comments)

8. Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
   (17 Apr 2014 | 403 points | Comments)

9. Ask HN: What do you do when your entire being opposes the task at hand?
   (23 May 2014 | 395 points | Comments)

10. Ask HN Mods: Why Do You Completely Change What Users Submit?
    (19 Jul 2014 | 386 points | Comments)

11. Ask HN: Idea Sunday
    (6 Apr 2014 | 369 points | Comments)

12. Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason
    (8 Aug 2014 | 368 points | Comments)

13. Ask HN: How can I remedy scatter brain and information overload?
    (6 Dec 2014 | 357 points | Comments)

14. Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux?
    (22 Nov 2014 | 352 points | Comments)

15. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
    (9 Mar 2014 | 351 points | Comments)

16. Ask HN: How or where to begin learning mathematics from first principles?
    (4 Dec 2014 | 345 points | Comments)

17. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)
    (1 Apr 2014 | 337 points | Comments)

18. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)
    (1 May 2014 | 336 points | Comments)

19. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)
    (1 Dec 2014 | 335 points | Comments)

20. Ask HN: How to price yourself?
    (4 Oct 2014 | 329 points | Comments)

21. Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014?
    (8 Dec 2014 | 329 points | Comments)

22. Ask HN: Your favorite YouTube channels?
    (18 Apr 2014 | 328 points | Comments)

23. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)
    (1 Nov 2014 | 324 points | Comments)

24. Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
    (27 Apr 2014 | 323 points | Comments)

25. Ask HN: My 56-year-old father is a developer having a tough time finding a job
    (23 Oct 2014 | 318 points | Comments)

26. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)
    (1 Jun 2014 | 314 points | Comments)

27. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014)
    (1 Mar 2014 | 311 points | Comments)

28. Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production?
    (17 Oct 2014 | 309 points | Comments)

29. Ask HN: Idea Sunday
    (13 Apr 2014 | 305 points | Comments)

30. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)
    (1 Jul 2014 | 304 points | Comments)

31. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)
    (1 Feb 2014 | 299 points | Comments)

32. Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
    (19 Nov 2014 | 293 points | Comments)

33. Ask HN: How to start earning $500/month in passive income in next 12-18 months?
    (30 Aug 2014 | 288 points | Comments)

34. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)
    (1 Oct 2014 | 275 points | Comments)

35. Ask HN: How best to learn software design principles?
    (7 Jul 2014 | 274 points | Comments)

36. Ask HN: What small webapps do you know that have a large audience?
    (2 Nov 2014 | 274 points | Comments)

37. Ask HN: Did you get "never have to work again rich" through software?
    (2 Jul 2014 | 272 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz" equivalent?
    (2 Jan 2014 | 260 points | Comments)

39. Ask HN: Idea Sunday
    (20 Apr 2014 | 249 points | Comments)

40. Ask HN: How do you stay motivated to work on side projects?
    (26 Dec 2014 | 246 points | Comments)

41. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)
    (1 Jan 2014 | 241 points | Comments)

42. Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?
    (8 Nov 2014 | 235 points | Comments)

43. Ask HN: Startup stole our software, and raised $2MM with it. What should we do?
    (26 Aug 2014 | 231 points | Comments)

44. Ask HN: Looking for contributors?
    (7 Mar 2014 | 225 points | Comments)

45. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2014)
    (1 Aug 2014 | 225 points | Comments)

46. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2014)
    (1 Sep 2014 | 224 points | Comments)

47. Ask HN: Examples of profitable little free web tools?
    (4 Dec 2014 | 223 points | Comments)

48. Ask HN: Any hackers over 60? 70?
    (6 Apr 2014 | 221 points | Comments)

49. Ask HN: Idea Sunday
    (4 May 2014 | 219 points | Comments)

50. Ask HN: What projects are you working on?
    (28 Jun 2014 | 219 points | Comments)

51. Ask HN: Where are the 750k Bitcoins lost by Mt. Gox?
    (28 Feb 2014 | 218 points | Comments)

52. Ask HN: How to find part-time developer work?
    (17 Jan 2014 | 217 points | Comments)

53. Ask HN: What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work?
    (29 Jan 2014 | 217 points | Comments)

54. Ask HN: What'd you do to get your first 100 users?
    (16 Feb 2014 | 214 points | Comments)

55. Ask HN: How do you earn your money?
    (22 Mar 2014 | 214 points | Comments)

56. Ask HN: Math books like SICP?
    (12 Apr 2014 | 212 points | Comments)

57. Ask HN: Should I sue drchrono (YC W11) for violating their contract w/ me?
    (4 Feb 2014 | 211 points | Comments)

58. Ask HN: Is Ryan Bates okay?
    (25 Mar 2014 | 209 points | Comments)

59. Ask HN: What is the most difficult tech/dev challenge you ever solved?
    (27 Apr 2014 | 209 points | Comments)

60. Ask HN: I've learned a programming language – how do I solve problems with code?
    (28 Nov 2014 | 205 points | Comments)

61. Ask HN: Why isn't Erlang more popular?
    (21 Feb 2014 | 202 points | Comments)

62. Ask HN: What are some alternatives to HN?
    (17 Feb 2014 | 199 points | Comments)

63. Ask HN: What's the best technical eBook you have read?
    (7 Jul 2014 | 193 points | Comments)

64. Ask HN: Can we get a "Show HN:" section
    (13 May 2014 | 191 points | Comments)

65. Ask HN: What was the job market like during the dot-com crash?
    (22 Dec 2014 | 189 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: Dev promoted to more strategic role in startup. What literature?
    (24 Jun 2014 | 184 points | Comments)

67. Ask HN: Is the semantic web still a thing?
    (26 Oct 2014 | 178 points | Comments)

68. Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?
    (26 Nov 2014 | 175 points | Comments)

69. Ask HN: How do you drive web traffic to your successful side projects?
    (3 Jan 2014 | 166 points | Comments)

70. Ask HN: I can't do this anymore, I need help
    (31 Mar 2014 | 166 points | Comments)

71. Ask HN: Big company approached our stealth startup – what to do?
    (6 Oct 2014 | 159 points | Comments)

72. Ask HN: Who isn't in the software industry/not a hacker?
    (8 Aug 2014 | 157 points | Comments)

73. Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?
    (27 Apr 2014 | 156 points | Comments)

74. Ask HN: Did you start a company whilst employed?
    (9 Jun 2014 | 155 points | Comments)

75. Ask HN: Bitcoin business unexpectedly taking off, help!
    (31 Jan 2014 | 152 points | Comments)

76. Ask HN: AdSense alternatives?
    (30 Apr 2014 | 152 points | Comments)

77. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2014)
    (2 Jun 2014 | 152 points | Comments)

78. Ask HN: Female hacker-founder AMA
    (2 Jan 2014 | 151 points | Comments)

79. Ask HN: How can i help my dad?
    (13 Jun 2014 | 151 points | Comments)

80. Ask HN: What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?
    (19 Jan 2014 | 148 points | Comments)

81. Ask HN: Examples of tech worker cooperatives?
    (23 Apr 2014 | 144 points | Comments)

82. Ask HN: As an experienced dev, how do you learn a language/framework quickly?
    (12 May 2014 | 144 points | Comments)

83. Ask HN: Why are there two Job Ads at the top?
    (20 Aug 2014 | 143 points | Comments)

84. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2014)
    (1 Aug 2014 | 141 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: Where I can post my startup to get beta users?
    (16 Feb 2014 | 138 points | Comments)

86. Ask HN Mods: Can you make submission URLs human-readable?
    (5 Apr 2014 | 137 points | Comments)

87. Ask HN: Hackers who cook
    (23 Sep 2014 | 136 points | Comments)

88. Ask HN: How do you get and stay in the "zone"?
    (15 Apr 2014 | 135 points | Comments)

89. Ask HN: What are your favorite scholarly papers? Why?
    (30 Nov 2014 | 135 points | Comments)

90. Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday
    (26 Apr 2014 | 134 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2014)
    (1 May 2014 | 129 points | Comments)

92. Ask HN: How exactly does Hacker News 'points' work?
    (28 May 2014 | 129 points | Comments)

93. Ask HN: What info do you web scrape for?
    (11 Aug 2014 | 129 points | Comments)

94. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2014)
    (1 Feb 2014 | 128 points | Comments)

95. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2014)
    (1 Jul 2014 | 127 points | Comments)

96. Ask HN: What DB to use for huge time series?
    (25 Sep 2014 | 126 points | Comments)

97. Ask HN: Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adult industry?
    (19 Oct 2014 | 126 points | Comments)

98. Ask HN: Best IRC channels?
    (1 Feb 2014 | 125 points | Comments)

99. Ask HN: Idea Sunday
    (27 Apr 2014 | 122 points | Comments)

100. Ask HN: What new or hot technology do you recommend learning?
     (26 Dec 2014 | 122 points | Comments)