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Top of Year 2015

1. Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma
   (14 Feb 2015 | 806 points | Comments)

2. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
   (1 Jul 2015 | 673 points | Comments)

3. Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange for food and a place to stay
   (10 Aug 2015 | 584 points | Comments)

4. Ask HN: How do you deal with professional jealousy and getting older?
   (7 Apr 2015 | 558 points | Comments)

5. Ask HN: How to Be a Good Technical Lead?
   (15 Oct 2015 | 520 points | Comments)

6. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)
   (2 Nov 2015 | 512 points | Comments)

7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)
   (3 Aug 2015 | 504 points | Comments)

8. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)
   (1 May 2015 | 501 points | Comments)

9. Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
   (2 Nov 2015 | 497 points | Comments)

10. Ask HN: Where can I buy real software companies?
    (22 May 2015 | 485 points | Comments)

11. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
    (1 Apr 2015 | 473 points | Comments)

12. Ask HN: What's left for early startup engineers as the company grows?
    (13 Jan 2015 | 463 points | Comments)

13. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)
    (1 Feb 2015 | 461 points | Comments)

14. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)
    (1 Sep 2015 | 436 points | Comments)

15. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)
    (1 Jun 2015 | 429 points | Comments)

16. Ask HN: What up with these startup salaries?
    (15 Feb 2015 | 421 points | Comments)

17. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)
    (1 Mar 2015 | 413 points | Comments)

18. Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase?
    (26 Jun 2015 | 407 points | Comments)

19. Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?
    (29 Nov 2015 | 395 points | Comments)

20. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)
    (1 Oct 2015 | 368 points | Comments)

21. Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
    (30 Mar 2015 | 349 points | Comments)

22. Ask HN: How do I put together a computer for my blind mom?
    (14 May 2015 | 339 points | Comments)

23. Ask HN: What are the best product landing pages you've stumbled upon?
    (26 Apr 2015 | 333 points | Comments)

24. Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?
    (6 Jul 2015 | 333 points | Comments)

25. Ask HN: I have ssh, they have ssh, how can we chat?
    (14 Jun 2015 | 327 points | Comments)

26. Ask HN: When do you know your startup has failed?
    (17 Apr 2015 | 325 points | Comments)

27. Ask HN: What are the most uplifting comments you've read on HN?
    (17 Apr 2015 | 325 points | Comments)

28. Ask HN: How to move beyond “freelancer”?
    (30 Mar 2015 | 322 points | Comments)

29. Ask HN: What is the actual purpose of Docker?
    (7 Jul 2015 | 313 points | Comments)

30. Ask HN: I Have Cancer. What Should I Do?
    (30 May 2015 | 310 points | Comments)

31. Ask HN: Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%?
    (4 May 2015 | 308 points | Comments)

32. Ask HN: Should I testify?
    (11 Apr 2015 | 292 points | Comments)

33. Ask HN: Does anyone else value the comments more than the link?
    (23 Mar 2015 | 282 points | Comments)

34. Ask HN: I am busy with too many things at once
    (3 Jul 2015 | 282 points | Comments)

35. Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?
    (16 Jul 2015 | 278 points | Comments)

36. Ask HN: How do you find freelance/contract gigs?
    (18 Jan 2015 | 275 points | Comments)

37. Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
    (9 Aug 2015 | 266 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: Open source OCR library?
    (25 Jun 2015 | 264 points | Comments)

39. Ask HN: Books with a high signal to noise ratio?
    (8 Aug 2015 | 260 points | Comments)

40. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)
    (1 Dec 2015 | 260 points | Comments)

41. Ask HN: How do I keep child porn out of my site?
    (11 Jul 2015 | 252 points | Comments)

42. Ask HN: The rising “Hackathon Hackers” culture
    (15 Mar 2015 | 251 points | Comments)

43. Ask HN: Struggling to pay rent this month. Can I help you with a gig?
    (30 Dec 2015 | 251 points | Comments)

44. Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?
    (25 Apr 2015 | 247 points | Comments)

45. Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
    (28 Nov 2015 | 247 points | Comments)

46. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)
    (1 Jan 2015 | 240 points | Comments)

47. Ask HN: Does anyone actually hire from 'developer bootcamps'?
    (6 Jan 2015 | 239 points | Comments)

48. Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?
    (15 Mar 2015 | 239 points | Comments)

49. Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
    (29 Jun 2015 | 231 points | Comments)

50. Ask HN: Thoughts on Rich Hickey's advice on becoming a better developer?
    (16 Feb 2015 | 225 points | Comments)

51. Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?
    (27 May 2015 | 224 points | Comments)

52. Ask HN: How do you log application events?
    (27 Apr 2015 | 221 points | Comments)

53. Ask HN: Where is it OK on the Net to say “I'm a developer looking for work?”
    (16 Jun 2015 | 218 points | Comments)

54. Ask HN: What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years?
    (17 Jun 2015 | 217 points | Comments)

55. Ask HN: How do technical non-developers help with open source projects?
    (1 Apr 2015 | 216 points | Comments)

56. Ask HN: I got let go this morning. What should I do next?
    (30 Jan 2015 | 215 points | Comments)

57. Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
    (9 Apr 2015 | 211 points | Comments)

58. Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?
    (10 Apr 2015 | 205 points | Comments)

59. Ask HN: Please stop making infinite scrolling websites
    (21 Apr 2015 | 197 points | Comments)

60. Ask HN: How to reskill without losing income?
    (8 Jun 2015 | 197 points | Comments)

61. Ask HN: I am the dumbest person in the room. What should I do?
    (26 Mar 2015 | 196 points | Comments)

62. Ask HN: How big does an open-source project need to be for a lifestyle business?
    (27 Jun 2015 | 196 points | Comments)

63. Ask HN: I am about to be fired. What should I do?
    (26 Apr 2015 | 195 points | Comments)

64. Ask HN: Why don't transistors in microchips fail?
    (9 Jul 2015 | 194 points | Comments)

65. Ask HN: My startup has concealed from me that it raised funding. What to do?
    (6 Mar 2015 | 193 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?
    (23 Dec 2015 | 193 points | Comments)

67. Ask HN: What visa do foreign YC founders use to stay in US beyond 3 months?
    (16 Oct 2015 | 191 points | Comments)

68. Ask HN: Has anyone here programmed in Kotlin? What do you think about it?
    (25 Jul 2015 | 190 points | Comments)

69. Ask HN: How to Find the Best Info on Cancer Treatments?
    (30 Aug 2015 | 188 points | Comments)

70. Ask HN: What do you wish you had known before you turned 40?
    (23 Feb 2015 | 186 points | Comments)

71. Ask HN: TrueCrypt audit status?
    (18 Feb 2015 | 185 points | Comments)

72. Ask HN: How do your enterprise customers pay you?
    (19 Feb 2015 | 184 points | Comments)

73. Ask HN: How to manage developers who aren't very good?
    (6 Feb 2015 | 179 points | Comments)

74. Ask HN: Anxiety is limiting my enjoyment of a wonderful career. Can you relate?
    (6 Mar 2015 | 178 points | Comments)

75. Ask HN: I am 30+ and bored with life and the software industry, what do I do?
    (25 Jul 2015 | 175 points | Comments)

76. Ask HN: Novelty addiction is ruining my life and career. What should I do?
    (12 Dec 2015 | 174 points | Comments)

77. Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?
    (23 Dec 2015 | 171 points | Comments)

78. Ask HN: What's the best way to write an API spec?
    (19 Jan 2015 | 170 points | Comments)

79. Ask HN: What does the percentage next to posts mean?
    (22 Aug 2015 | 166 points | Comments)

80. Ask HN: Company got acquired, new contract seems oppressive
    (17 Jun 2015 | 165 points | Comments)

81. Ask HN: Best resources on webapp security?
    (8 Aug 2015 | 165 points | Comments)

82. Ask HN: What are your best “soft skill” resources?
    (1 Aug 2015 | 164 points | Comments)

83. Ask HN: Is it safe to use Facebook's open source projects?
    (26 Feb 2015 | 160 points | Comments)

84. Ask HN: How would you implement a verifiable open-source web application?
    (19 Mar 2015 | 160 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: Why isn't the GitHub attack being covered by the news?
    (29 Mar 2015 | 158 points | Comments)

86. Ask HN: Programmers Above 50, Is It Possible to Have a Career Past Your 50s?
    (6 May 2015 | 158 points | Comments)

87. Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?
    (30 Sep 2015 | 157 points | Comments)

88. Ask HN: How are some people exceptionally productive?
    (5 Aug 2015 | 156 points | Comments)

89. Ask HN: What startups are working on hard, technically challenging problems?
    (21 Mar 2015 | 155 points | Comments)

90. Ask HN: Do you take nootropics?
    (21 Mar 2015 | 155 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on your GitHub project?
    (12 Jul 2015 | 155 points | Comments)

92. Ask HN: Planning to leave. How best to handle stock options?
    (8 Dec 2015 | 154 points | Comments)

93. Ask HN: Discuss burnout with boss?
    (21 Oct 2015 | 153 points | Comments)

94. Ask HN: How do develop a side project when you have a 40hr/week job?
    (29 Nov 2015 | 153 points | Comments)

95. Ask HN: Where to Register a Company When Being a Traveling Digital Nomad?
    (24 Jan 2015 | 151 points | Comments)

96. Ask HN: How do I learn how to become a good sysadmin?
    (22 Apr 2015 | 151 points | Comments)

97. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2015)
    (1 Jun 2015 | 149 points | Comments)

98. Ask HN: What newsletters do you read every day or week?
    (2 May 2015 | 148 points | Comments)

99. Ask HN: Am I missing out by not being in sillicon valley?
    (19 May 2015 | 148 points | Comments)

100. Ask HN: Best books or videos to get better at sales?
     (17 Sep 2015 | 147 points | Comments)