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Top of Year 2017

1. Ask HN: Is S3 down?
   (28 Feb 2017 | 2589 points | Comments)

2. Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
   (31 Mar 2017 | 1374 points | Comments)

3. Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read?
   (5 Jun 2017 | 927 points | Comments)

4. Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow?
   (12 Mar 2017 | 893 points | Comments)

5. Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers
   (19 Apr 2017 | 847 points | Comments)

6. Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
   (16 Feb 2017 | 813 points | Comments)

7. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
   (5 Jan 2017 | 800 points | Comments)

8. Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
   (24 Aug 2017 | 793 points | Comments)

9. Ask HN: Best way to get started with AI?
   (13 Nov 2017 | 709 points | Comments)

10. Ask HN: How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active producer?
    (21 May 2017 | 699 points | Comments)

11. Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?
    (2 Sep 2017 | 692 points | Comments)

12. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)
    (1 Feb 2017 | 690 points | Comments)

13. Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?
    (29 May 2017 | 685 points | Comments)

14. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)
    (2 Oct 2017 | 678 points | Comments)

15. Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?
    (15 Jan 2017 | 670 points | Comments)

16. Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?
    (6 Feb 2017 | 657 points | Comments)

17. Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development?
    (18 Jan 2017 | 639 points | Comments)

18. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)
    (3 Jul 2017 | 635 points | Comments)

19. Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?
    (3 Jun 2017 | 631 points | Comments)

20. Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?
    (28 Aug 2017 | 628 points | Comments)

21. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
    (1 Nov 2017 | 624 points | Comments)

22. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)
    (2 Jan 2017 | 612 points | Comments)

23. Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
    (8 Jun 2017 | 609 points | Comments)

24. Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?
    (5 Apr 2017 | 602 points | Comments)

25. Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?
    (1 Nov 2017 | 600 points | Comments)

26. Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
    (19 Feb 2017 | 597 points | Comments)

27. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)
    (1 Dec 2017 | 592 points | Comments)

28. Ask HN: Developers with kids, how do you skill up?
    (8 Mar 2017 | 589 points | Comments)

29. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)
    (1 May 2017 | 589 points | Comments)

30. Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
    (11 Oct 2017 | 586 points | Comments)

31. Ask HN: How do you set prices?
    (10 Mar 2017 | 584 points | Comments)

32. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)
    (1 Sep 2017 | 573 points | Comments)

33. Ask HN: I don't want to be a founder anymore
    (25 May 2017 | 565 points | Comments)

34. Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?
    (30 Dec 2017 | 558 points | Comments)

35. Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
    (30 Jan 2017 | 551 points | Comments)

36. Ask HN: What are some interesting papers in CS for a beginner?
    (14 Nov 2017 | 534 points | Comments)

37. Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
    (4 Oct 2017 | 526 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: CS papers for software architecture and design?
    (25 Nov 2017 | 525 points | Comments)

39. Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great?
    (6 Jul 2017 | 518 points | Comments)

40. Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
    (5 Feb 2017 | 516 points | Comments)

41. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)
    (3 Apr 2017 | 513 points | Comments)

42. Ask HN: Huge enterprise customer wants to see our source code
    (6 Dec 2017 | 513 points | Comments)

43. Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?
    (14 Mar 2017 | 512 points | Comments)

44. Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
    (7 Jul 2017 | 503 points | Comments)

45. Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?
    (14 Nov 2017 | 502 points | Comments)

46. Ask HN: My house might burn down in the next 24 hours. Suggestions?
    (11 Oct 2017 | 498 points | Comments)

47. Ask HN: Is Georgia Tech's Online Master in CS Worth It?
    (15 Aug 2017 | 489 points | Comments)

48. Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
    (10 Aug 2017 | 488 points | Comments)

49. Ask HN: How did you acquire your first 100 users?
    (25 Apr 2017 | 486 points | Comments)

50. Ask HN: Google Doc email virus?
    (3 May 2017 | 481 points | Comments)

51. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)
    (1 Mar 2017 | 478 points | Comments)

52. Ask HN: How do I start my own consulting firm?
    (11 Mar 2017 | 476 points | Comments)

53. Ask HN: How can I do social good through programming?
    (19 May 2017 | 461 points | Comments)

54. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)
    (1 Jun 2017 | 461 points | Comments)

55. Ask HN: Women in tech, how do you find non-toxic work environments?
    (5 Jun 2017 | 459 points | Comments)

56. Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
    (27 Feb 2017 | 452 points | Comments)

57. Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?
    (21 Apr 2017 | 451 points | Comments)

58. Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?
    (17 Aug 2017 | 451 points | Comments)

59. Ask HN: What is the best online resource to learn advanced SQL?
    (17 Jan 2017 | 448 points | Comments)

60. Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
    (6 Jan 2017 | 444 points | Comments)

61. Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
    (7 Apr 2017 | 441 points | Comments)

62. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)
    (1 Aug 2017 | 439 points | Comments)

63. Ask HN: What free resources did you use to learn how to program ML/AI?
    (12 Aug 2017 | 415 points | Comments)

64. Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?
    (17 Nov 2017 | 408 points | Comments)

65. Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?
    (24 Jul 2017 | 407 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: What inspires you to persevere through adversity?
    (22 Jan 2017 | 401 points | Comments)

67. Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?
    (16 Jul 2017 | 389 points | Comments)

68. Ask HN: How to start afresh in a new domain after years of expertise in another?
    (6 Sep 2017 | 389 points | Comments)

69. Ask HN: Should I create a clone of a popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?
    (6 May 2017 | 383 points | Comments)

70. Ask HN: How do you find clients when you have no network and can only do remote?
    (24 Jul 2017 | 383 points | Comments)

71. Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?
    (13 Mar 2017 | 379 points | Comments)

72. Ask HN: What's your working day like?
    (8 May 2017 | 377 points | Comments)

73. Ask HN: Best books on AI?
    (18 Mar 2017 | 375 points | Comments)

74. Ask HN: What's the one thing that let you grow the most as a developer?
    (3 Mar 2017 | 374 points | Comments)

75. Ask HN: What are you working on?
    (4 Apr 2017 | 374 points | Comments)

76. Ask HN: What's your top growth strategy that helped grow your startup?
    (2 Feb 2017 | 369 points | Comments)

77. Ask HN: Companies who adopted React Native over a year ago, do you regret it?
    (20 Sep 2017 | 363 points | Comments)

78. Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal?
    (26 Feb 2017 | 361 points | Comments)

79. Ask HN: For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish you knew 4 years in?
    (18 May 2017 | 360 points | Comments)

80. Ask HN: Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M?
    (22 Sep 2017 | 354 points | Comments)

81. Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?
    (18 Jun 2017 | 352 points | Comments)

82. Ask HN: Have you regretted making something open-source?
    (30 Jul 2017 | 352 points | Comments)

83. Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth so unreliable?
    (12 Jul 2017 | 351 points | Comments)

84. Ask HN: Any recommended books on developing mental models?
    (26 Dec 2017 | 350 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
    (31 Dec 2017 | 350 points | Comments)

86. Ask HN: How can a front-end developer dive into machine learning?
    (12 May 2017 | 340 points | Comments)

87. Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for blogs or small stores?
    (2 Jan 2017 | 339 points | Comments)

88. Ask HN: What does your production machine learning pipeline look like?
    (8 Mar 2017 | 339 points | Comments)

89. Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
    (30 Oct 2017 | 337 points | Comments)

90. Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?
    (7 Nov 2017 | 334 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: What books had the greatest effect on how you structure your code?
    (24 Jul 2017 | 332 points | Comments)

92. Ask HN: How do you deal with loss of motivation?
    (26 Feb 2017 | 331 points | Comments)

93. Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?
    (8 Jul 2017 | 331 points | Comments)

94. Ask HN: A good primer on cryptocurrencies?
    (29 Jun 2017 | 328 points | Comments)

95. Ask HN: What ways have worked for you to overcome 'imposter syndrome'?
    (2 Jul 2017 | 323 points | Comments)

96. Ask HN: What are some examples of good code?
    (13 Mar 2017 | 321 points | Comments)

97. Ask HN: Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?
    (11 Apr 2017 | 320 points | Comments)

98. Ask HN: How to prepare for an Engineering Manager interview?
    (8 Jul 2017 | 315 points | Comments)

99. Ask HN: People who completed a bootcamp 3+ years ago: what are you doing now?
    (8 Jun 2017 | 314 points | Comments)

100. Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices?
     (10 Aug 2017 | 312 points | Comments)