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Top of Year 2019

1. Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
   (5 Feb 2019 | 2009 points | Comments)

2. Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
   (24 Jun 2019 | 1741 points | Comments)

3. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
   (23 Oct 2019 | 1474 points | Comments)

4. Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
   (20 Nov 2019 | 1460 points | Comments)

5. Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
   (22 Oct 2019 | 1331 points | Comments)

6. Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
   (21 Apr 2019 | 1134 points | Comments)

7. Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?
   (29 Apr 2019 | 1046 points | Comments)

8. Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?
   (6 Jan 2019 | 985 points | Comments)

9. Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
   (2 Oct 2019 | 942 points | Comments)

10. Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
    (13 May 2019 | 927 points | Comments)

11. Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?
    (5 Dec 2019 | 882 points | Comments)

12. Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?
    (28 Dec 2019 | 873 points | Comments)

13. Ask HN: Are you ok?
    (12 Sep 2019 | 857 points | Comments)

14. Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics?
    (24 Oct 2019 | 788 points | Comments)

15. Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
    (21 Oct 2019 | 781 points | Comments)

16. Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
    (19 Apr 2019 | 752 points | Comments)

17. Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
    (22 Apr 2019 | 740 points | Comments)

18. Ask HN: How Do You Read?
    (31 Aug 2019 | 686 points | Comments)

19. Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?
    (18 Dec 2019 | 673 points | Comments)

20. Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?
    (27 Nov 2019 | 670 points | Comments)

21. Ask HN: How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad through graduate level?
    (18 Jan 2019 | 654 points | Comments)

22. Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?
    (22 Dec 2019 | 643 points | Comments)

23. Ask HN: How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?
    (21 Oct 2019 | 642 points | Comments)

24. Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a consultant/freelancer?
    (7 Dec 2019 | 622 points | Comments)

25. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
    (2 Jan 2019 | 587 points | Comments)

26. Ask HN: What are the signs that you have a great manager?
    (20 Jun 2019 | 585 points | Comments)

27. Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
    (12 Jan 2019 | 574 points | Comments)

28. Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?
    (20 Oct 2019 | 563 points | Comments)

29. Ask HN: What should a systems/low-level software engineer know?
    (11 Jan 2019 | 551 points | Comments)

30. Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?
    (28 Jan 2019 | 548 points | Comments)

31. Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?
    (5 Jan 2019 | 542 points | Comments)

32. Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?
    (23 Jul 2019 | 539 points | Comments)

33. Ask HN: What do you self-host?
    (12 Oct 2019 | 538 points | Comments)

34. Ask HN: How do you stay disciplined in the long run?
    (29 Apr 2019 | 537 points | Comments)

35. Ask HN: Going from Developer to Manager. What should I know or learn?
    (4 Jan 2019 | 519 points | Comments)

36. Ask HN: How to speak like a leader, not like an engineer?
    (10 Mar 2019 | 511 points | Comments)

37. Ask HN: What was your experience starting a tech consultancy?
    (10 May 2019 | 510 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?
    (28 Jan 2019 | 499 points | Comments)

39. Ask HN: Resources/Steps for Becoming a Consultant?
    (21 Mar 2019 | 499 points | Comments)

40. Ask HN: Amazon delisted me – what do I do?
    (2 Apr 2019 | 495 points | Comments)

41. Ask HN: What are must-know concepts for back end development?
    (21 Jan 2019 | 491 points | Comments)

42. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)
    (1 May 2019 | 488 points | Comments)

43. Ask HN: How can we destroy AMP?
    (3 Aug 2019 | 486 points | Comments)

44. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)
    (1 Jul 2019 | 485 points | Comments)

45. Ask HN: Which is the most successful one-person business you heard of in 2019?
    (29 Dec 2019 | 485 points | Comments)

46. Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
    (1 Aug 2019 | 480 points | Comments)

47. Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
    (28 Oct 2019 | 476 points | Comments)

48. Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
    (1 Jul 2019 | 474 points | Comments)

49. Ask HN: What are the most fundamental books on computer science?
    (21 Oct 2019 | 474 points | Comments)

50. Ask HN: How to find profitable side project idea?
    (14 Feb 2019 | 473 points | Comments)

51. Ask HN: Which books teach mental models?
    (12 May 2019 | 473 points | Comments)

52. Ask HN: I need ideas to impress fifth graders with technology
    (1 Jun 2019 | 473 points | Comments)

53. Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these days?
    (27 Mar 2019 | 456 points | Comments)

54. Ask HN: Tools or sites you use to scope out a workplace before taking a job?
    (1 Mar 2019 | 448 points | Comments)

55. Ask HN: How do you make sure your servers are up as a single founder?
    (6 Nov 2019 | 448 points | Comments)

56. Ask HN: How to found a company as a single founder?
    (8 Jan 2019 | 446 points | Comments)

57. Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?
    (17 Dec 2019 | 441 points | Comments)

58. Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?
    (18 Mar 2019 | 440 points | Comments)

59. Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
    (3 Oct 2019 | 434 points | Comments)

60. Ask HN: How do B2B startups sell to corporations?
    (27 Oct 2019 | 427 points | Comments)

61. Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?
    (12 Nov 2019 | 427 points | Comments)

62. Ask HN: Full-on machine learning for 2020, what are the best resources?
    (31 Dec 2019 | 423 points | Comments)

63. Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?
    (16 Dec 2019 | 421 points | Comments)

64. Ask HN: What are your favorite YouTube channels to learn stuff?
    (8 Jul 2019 | 418 points | Comments)

65. Ask HN: What are you thankful for?
    (28 Nov 2019 | 418 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: How can I work towards building a company while employed?
    (27 May 2019 | 413 points | Comments)

67. Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?
    (19 Jan 2019 | 411 points | Comments)

68. Ask HN: Recommended resources to learn the Linux kernel and OS theory?
    (27 Aug 2019 | 408 points | Comments)

69. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)
    (1 Feb 2019 | 407 points | Comments)

70. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)
    (3 Jun 2019 | 407 points | Comments)

71. Ask HN: Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to start a hobby project?
    (23 Dec 2019 | 407 points | Comments)

72. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)
    (1 Nov 2019 | 402 points | Comments)

73. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)
    (1 Apr 2019 | 400 points | Comments)

74. Ask HN: High-Quality Online Degree for Mathematics?
    (7 Jan 2019 | 398 points | Comments)

75. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)
    (1 Mar 2019 | 398 points | Comments)

76. Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?
    (29 Jul 2019 | 392 points | Comments)

77. Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?
    (19 Jun 2019 | 389 points | Comments)

78. Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?
    (26 Aug 2019 | 389 points | Comments)

79. Ask HN: What is your ML stack like?
    (12 Nov 2019 | 387 points | Comments)

80. Ask HN: CS, still a good career in 3-5 years?
    (17 Dec 2019 | 384 points | Comments)

81. Ask HN: We are shutting down our startup, I get our code. What now?
    (9 Dec 2019 | 382 points | Comments)

82. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)
    (1 Oct 2019 | 380 points | Comments)

83. Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everything slower?
    (12 Jan 2019 | 378 points | Comments)

84. Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?
    (26 Jun 2019 | 374 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens?
    (13 Dec 2019 | 373 points | Comments)

86. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
    (1 Aug 2019 | 370 points | Comments)

87. Ask HN: A Good Alternative for ReCaptcha?
    (31 May 2019 | 368 points | Comments)

88. Ask HN: Highest paying remote companies?
    (29 Jan 2019 | 356 points | Comments)

89. Ask HN: Best things in your bash_profile/aliases?
    (13 Jan 2019 | 345 points | Comments)

90. Ask HN: How do I make the move to consultant?
    (8 Oct 2019 | 343 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?
    (2 Jul 2019 | 341 points | Comments)

92. Ask HN: What made you change your mind about a programming language/paradigm?
    (2 Mar 2019 | 338 points | Comments)

93. Ask HN: Solo devs, how do you plan your development?
    (29 Dec 2019 | 338 points | Comments)

94. Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier?
    (9 Sep 2019 | 332 points | Comments)

95. Ask HN: How to deal with constantly getting cut off in work discussions?
    (16 Jul 2019 | 329 points | Comments)

96. Ask HN: How do I choose the right resource to learn CS fundamentals?
    (31 Dec 2019 | 328 points | Comments)

97. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)
    (3 Sep 2019 | 326 points | Comments)

98. Ask HN: What do top engineers you know do that others don't?
    (24 Dec 2019 | 326 points | Comments)

99. Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?
    (6 Jan 2019 | 325 points | Comments)

100. Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?
     (8 Jan 2019 | 324 points | Comments)