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Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
(5 Feb 2019 | 2009 points |
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Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
(24 Jun 2019 | 1741 points |
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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
(23 Oct 2019 | 1474 points |
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Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
(20 Nov 2019 | 1460 points |
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Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
(22 Oct 2019 | 1331 points |
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Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
(21 Apr 2019 | 1134 points |
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Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?
(29 Apr 2019 | 1046 points |
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Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?
(6 Jan 2019 | 985 points |
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Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
(2 Oct 2019 | 942 points |
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Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
(13 May 2019 | 927 points |
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Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?
(5 Dec 2019 | 882 points |
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Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?
(28 Dec 2019 | 873 points |
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Ask HN: Are you ok?
(12 Sep 2019 | 857 points |
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Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics?
(24 Oct 2019 | 788 points |
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Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
(21 Oct 2019 | 781 points |
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Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
(19 Apr 2019 | 752 points |
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Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
(22 Apr 2019 | 740 points |
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Ask HN: How Do You Read?
(31 Aug 2019 | 686 points |
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Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?
(18 Dec 2019 | 673 points |
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Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?
(27 Nov 2019 | 670 points |
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Ask HN: How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad through graduate level?
(18 Jan 2019 | 654 points |
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Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?
(22 Dec 2019 | 643 points |
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Ask HN: How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?
(21 Oct 2019 | 642 points |
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Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a consultant/freelancer?
(7 Dec 2019 | 622 points |
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
(2 Jan 2019 | 587 points |
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Ask HN: What are the signs that you have a great manager?
(20 Jun 2019 | 585 points |
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Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
(12 Jan 2019 | 574 points |
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Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?
(20 Oct 2019 | 563 points |
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Ask HN: What should a systems/low-level software engineer know?
(11 Jan 2019 | 551 points |
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Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?
(28 Jan 2019 | 548 points |
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Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?
(5 Jan 2019 | 542 points |
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Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?
(23 Jul 2019 | 539 points |
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Ask HN: What do you self-host?
(12 Oct 2019 | 538 points |
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Ask HN: How do you stay disciplined in the long run?
(29 Apr 2019 | 537 points |
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Ask HN: Going from Developer to Manager. What should I know or learn?
(4 Jan 2019 | 519 points |
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Ask HN: How to speak like a leader, not like an engineer?
(10 Mar 2019 | 511 points |
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Ask HN: What was your experience starting a tech consultancy?
(10 May 2019 | 510 points |
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Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?
(28 Jan 2019 | 499 points |
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Ask HN: Resources/Steps for Becoming a Consultant?
(21 Mar 2019 | 499 points |
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Ask HN: Amazon delisted me – what do I do?
(2 Apr 2019 | 495 points |
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Ask HN: What are must-know concepts for back end development?
(21 Jan 2019 | 491 points |
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)
(1 May 2019 | 488 points |
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Ask HN: How can we destroy AMP?
(3 Aug 2019 | 486 points |
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)
(1 Jul 2019 | 485 points |
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Ask HN: Which is the most successful one-person business you heard of in 2019?
(29 Dec 2019 | 485 points |
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Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
(1 Aug 2019 | 480 points |
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Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
(28 Oct 2019 | 476 points |
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Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
(1 Jul 2019 | 474 points |
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Ask HN: What are the most fundamental books on computer science?
(21 Oct 2019 | 474 points |
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Ask HN: How to find profitable side project idea?
(14 Feb 2019 | 473 points |
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Ask HN: Which books teach mental models?
(12 May 2019 | 473 points |
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Ask HN: I need ideas to impress fifth graders with technology
(1 Jun 2019 | 473 points |
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Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these days?
(27 Mar 2019 | 456 points |
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Ask HN: Tools or sites you use to scope out a workplace before taking a job?
(1 Mar 2019 | 448 points |
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Ask HN: How do you make sure your servers are up as a single founder?
(6 Nov 2019 | 448 points |
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Ask HN: How to found a company as a single founder?
(8 Jan 2019 | 446 points |
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Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?
(17 Dec 2019 | 441 points |
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Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?
(18 Mar 2019 | 440 points |
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Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
(3 Oct 2019 | 434 points |
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Ask HN: How do B2B startups sell to corporations?
(27 Oct 2019 | 427 points |
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Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?
(12 Nov 2019 | 427 points |
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Ask HN: Full-on machine learning for 2020, what are the best resources?
(31 Dec 2019 | 423 points |
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Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?
(16 Dec 2019 | 421 points |
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Ask HN: What are your favorite YouTube channels to learn stuff?
(8 Jul 2019 | 418 points |
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Ask HN: What are you thankful for?
(28 Nov 2019 | 418 points |
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Ask HN: How can I work towards building a company while employed?
(27 May 2019 | 413 points |
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Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?
(19 Jan 2019 | 411 points |
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Ask HN: Recommended resources to learn the Linux kernel and OS theory?
(27 Aug 2019 | 408 points |
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)
(1 Feb 2019 | 407 points |
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)
(3 Jun 2019 | 407 points |
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Ask HN: Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to start a hobby project?
(23 Dec 2019 | 407 points |
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)
(1 Nov 2019 | 402 points |
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)
(1 Apr 2019 | 400 points |
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Ask HN: High-Quality Online Degree for Mathematics?
(7 Jan 2019 | 398 points |
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)
(1 Mar 2019 | 398 points |
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Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?
(29 Jul 2019 | 392 points |
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Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?
(19 Jun 2019 | 389 points |
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Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?
(26 Aug 2019 | 389 points |
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Ask HN: What is your ML stack like?
(12 Nov 2019 | 387 points |
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Ask HN: CS, still a good career in 3-5 years?
(17 Dec 2019 | 384 points |
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Ask HN: We are shutting down our startup, I get our code. What now?
(9 Dec 2019 | 382 points |
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)
(1 Oct 2019 | 380 points |
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Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everything slower?
(12 Jan 2019 | 378 points |
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Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?
(26 Jun 2019 | 374 points |
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Ask HN: What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens?
(13 Dec 2019 | 373 points |
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
(1 Aug 2019 | 370 points |
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Ask HN: A Good Alternative for ReCaptcha?
(31 May 2019 | 368 points |
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Ask HN: Highest paying remote companies?
(29 Jan 2019 | 356 points |
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Ask HN: Best things in your bash_profile/aliases?
(13 Jan 2019 | 345 points |
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Ask HN: How do I make the move to consultant?
(8 Oct 2019 | 343 points |
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Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?
(2 Jul 2019 | 341 points |
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Ask HN: What made you change your mind about a programming language/paradigm?
(2 Mar 2019 | 338 points |
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Ask HN: Solo devs, how do you plan your development?
(29 Dec 2019 | 338 points |
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Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier?
(9 Sep 2019 | 332 points |
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Ask HN: How to deal with constantly getting cut off in work discussions?
(16 Jul 2019 | 329 points |
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Ask HN: How do I choose the right resource to learn CS fundamentals?
(31 Dec 2019 | 328 points |
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)
(3 Sep 2019 | 326 points |
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Ask HN: What do top engineers you know do that others don't?
(24 Dec 2019 | 326 points |
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Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?
(6 Jan 2019 | 325 points |
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Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?
(8 Jan 2019 | 324 points |
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