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Top of Year 2018

1. Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?
   (6 Apr 2018 | 1681 points | Comments)

2. Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
   (3 Apr 2018 | 1665 points | Comments)

3. Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
   (3 Dec 2018 | 1322 points | Comments)

4. Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?
   (11 Jun 2018 | 1139 points | Comments)

5. Ask HN: What has HN given you?
   (19 Feb 2018 | 1095 points | Comments)

6. Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
   (8 Oct 2018 | 911 points | Comments)

7. Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
   (24 Jun 2018 | 897 points | Comments)

8. Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?
   (24 Sep 2018 | 867 points | Comments)

9. Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?
   (30 Sep 2018 | 850 points | Comments)

10. Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?
    (23 Dec 2018 | 842 points | Comments)

11. Ask HN: Is it 'normal' to struggle so hard with work?
    (19 Feb 2018 | 802 points | Comments)

12. Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?
    (16 Sep 2018 | 770 points | Comments)

13. Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?
    (12 Jul 2018 | 746 points | Comments)

14. Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?
    (17 Oct 2018 | 733 points | Comments)

15. Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
    (15 Oct 2018 | 717 points | Comments)

16. Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?
    (22 Dec 2018 | 710 points | Comments)

17. Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?
    (14 Apr 2018 | 701 points | Comments)

18. Ask HN: What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit?
    (4 Dec 2018 | 687 points | Comments)

19. Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++?
    (7 Mar 2018 | 686 points | Comments)

20. Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?
    (30 Dec 2018 | 681 points | Comments)

21. Ask HN: Why did your startup fail and what did you learn?
    (18 Sep 2018 | 675 points | Comments)

22. Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
    (19 Nov 2018 | 634 points | Comments)

23. Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
    (23 Dec 2018 | 629 points | Comments)

24. Ask HN: How to self-learn math?
    (11 Mar 2018 | 618 points | Comments)

25. Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?
    (29 Sep 2018 | 613 points | Comments)

26. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
    (2 Apr 2018 | 612 points | Comments)

27. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
    (28 Feb 2018 | 594 points | Comments)

28. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)
    (1 Mar 2018 | 592 points | Comments)

29. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
    (1 May 2018 | 587 points | Comments)

30. Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
    (12 Dec 2018 | 578 points | Comments)

31. Ask HN: “Write your own” or “Build your own” software projects
    (15 Mar 2018 | 576 points | Comments)

32. Ask HN: What made your favorite manager/supervisor/CEO so great?
    (19 Sep 2018 | 575 points | Comments)

33. Ask HN: YouTube down?
    (17 Oct 2018 | 575 points | Comments)

34. Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?
    (29 Mar 2018 | 566 points | Comments)

35. Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
    (26 Feb 2018 | 542 points | Comments)

36. Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?
    (3 Jun 2018 | 542 points | Comments)

37. Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?
    (5 Jun 2018 | 542 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)
    (1 Oct 2018 | 542 points | Comments)

39. Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
    (12 Dec 2018 | 542 points | Comments)

40. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)
    (1 Nov 2018 | 539 points | Comments)

41. Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale?
    (7 Nov 2018 | 539 points | Comments)

42. Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?
    (11 Oct 2018 | 537 points | Comments)

43. Ask HN: Why is nearing completion so demotivating?
    (23 May 2018 | 534 points | Comments)

44. Ask HN: How do you find freelance work?
    (22 Mar 2018 | 518 points | Comments)

45. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)
    (2 Jan 2018 | 513 points | Comments)

46. Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?
    (11 May 2018 | 513 points | Comments)

47. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)
    (3 Sep 2018 | 486 points | Comments)

48. Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
    (8 Dec 2018 | 478 points | Comments)

49. Ask HN: How do you continuously monitor web logs for hack attempts?
    (7 May 2018 | 477 points | Comments)

50. Ask HN: 5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase customer support. Advice?
    (29 Jan 2018 | 475 points | Comments)

51. Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?
    (8 Apr 2018 | 472 points | Comments)

52. Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software developer?
    (3 Oct 2018 | 470 points | Comments)

53. Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?
    (17 Nov 2018 | 464 points | Comments)

54. Ask HN: My startup has basically failed. What now?
    (28 Apr 2018 | 463 points | Comments)

55. Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
    (26 Sep 2018 | 460 points | Comments)

56. Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
    (21 Sep 2018 | 458 points | Comments)

57. Ask HN: What do you use for authentication and authorization?
    (27 Dec 2018 | 457 points | Comments)

58. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)
    (1 Feb 2018 | 454 points | Comments)

59. Ask HN: What are your favorite statistics and probability textbooks?
    (6 Jul 2018 | 452 points | Comments)

60. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)
    (1 Jun 2018 | 450 points | Comments)

61. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
    (1 Aug 2018 | 448 points | Comments)

62. Ask HN: How do I learn math/physics in my thirties?
    (15 May 2018 | 441 points | Comments)

63. Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?
    (5 Aug 2018 | 437 points | Comments)

64. Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?
    (5 Aug 2018 | 432 points | Comments)

65. Ask HN: Am I just a wantrepreneur?
    (21 Oct 2018 | 428 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?
    (13 Nov 2018 | 428 points | Comments)

67. Ask HN: How to come up with monetizable side project ideas?
    (22 Sep 2018 | 426 points | Comments)

68. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)
    (2 Jul 2018 | 425 points | Comments)

69. Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
    (5 Nov 2018 | 422 points | Comments)

70. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)
    (3 Dec 2018 | 421 points | Comments)

71. Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?
    (1 Jan 2018 | 418 points | Comments)

72. Ask HN: What are some tech companies that do not use an open floor plan?
    (18 Apr 2018 | 409 points | Comments)

73. Ask HN: What do you do in your 1-on-1s with your direct reports?
    (20 Oct 2018 | 409 points | Comments)

74. Ask HN: Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what should I do?
    (22 Aug 2018 | 406 points | Comments)

75. Ask HN: Is there a better way to document complex software architectures?
    (22 Nov 2018 | 406 points | Comments)

76. Ask HN: I've been a programmer for 6 years, and I can't solve basic CS problems
    (13 Nov 2018 | 404 points | Comments)

77. Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?
    (1 Sep 2018 | 403 points | Comments)

78. Ask HN: How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?
    (7 Dec 2018 | 402 points | Comments)

79. Ask HN: What's the recommended method of adding authentication to a REST API?
    (16 Jan 2018 | 397 points | Comments)

80. Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
    (16 Oct 2018 | 393 points | Comments)

81. Ask HN: Old CS lecturer looking for advice from current and recent students
    (30 Jun 2018 | 392 points | Comments)

82. Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?
    (26 Jul 2018 | 391 points | Comments)

83. Ask HN: Engineers from non-CS background, how did you pivot into ML/AI?
    (31 Dec 2018 | 390 points | Comments)

84. Ask HN: Anyone making money through algorithmic trading?
    (25 Apr 2018 | 389 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: Is there a modern “power on to basic” computer, for kids to learn on?
    (16 Oct 2018 | 387 points | Comments)

86. Ask HN: 40+ Career Advice?
    (13 Oct 2018 | 384 points | Comments)

87. Ask HN: What has been your most rewarding job or project and why?
    (26 Apr 2018 | 383 points | Comments)

88. Ask HN: What are the most interesting emerging fields in computer science?
    (6 Aug 2018 | 381 points | Comments)

89. Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
    (14 Jul 2018 | 374 points | Comments)

90. Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product?
    (21 Nov 2018 | 371 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?
    (22 Nov 2018 | 367 points | Comments)

92. Ask HN: Any recommended resources to develop system thinking?
    (29 Mar 2018 | 365 points | Comments)

93. Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
    (29 Aug 2018 | 365 points | Comments)

94. Ask HN: Have you built a house?
    (28 Aug 2018 | 356 points | Comments)

95. Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
    (27 Sep 2018 | 347 points | Comments)

96. Ask HN: As a data scientist, what should be in my toolkit in 2018?
    (20 Feb 2018 | 341 points | Comments)

97. Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?
    (10 Oct 2018 | 338 points | Comments)

98. Ask HN: What is the dark side of working at a successful startup?
    (17 Sep 2018 | 337 points | Comments)

99. Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new company?
    (20 Jun 2018 | 331 points | Comments)

100. Ask HN: Weirdest hack that you ever saw in production?
     (24 Mar 2018 | 330 points | Comments)