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Top of Year 2020

1. Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
   (19 Apr 2020 | 3270 points | Comments)

2. Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?
   (31 May 2020 | 2634 points | Comments)

3. Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
   (19 Aug 2020 | 1403 points | Comments)

4. Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
   (5 Jan 2020 | 1337 points | Comments)

5. Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
   (13 May 2020 | 1336 points | Comments)

6. Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life
   (6 May 2020 | 1084 points | Comments)

7. Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?
   (23 Mar 2020 | 1083 points | Comments)

8. Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
   (5 Apr 2020 | 1081 points | Comments)

9. Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
   (22 May 2020 | 1006 points | Comments)

10. Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
    (12 May 2020 | 961 points | Comments)

11. Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
    (4 Feb 2020 | 930 points | Comments)

12. Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
    (7 Apr 2020 | 910 points | Comments)

13. Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
    (2 Jan 2020 | 908 points | Comments)

14. Ask HN: What are you learning?
    (5 Apr 2020 | 865 points | Comments)

15. Ask HN: How to learn sales?
    (26 Sep 2020 | 865 points | Comments)

16. Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?
    (11 Jun 2020 | 855 points | Comments)

17. Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?
    (11 Feb 2020 | 852 points | Comments)

18. Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
    (2 Jan 2020 | 815 points | Comments)

19. Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
    (21 Mar 2020 | 809 points | Comments)

20. Ask HN: Have you been laid off?
    (18 Mar 2020 | 800 points | Comments)

21. Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?
    (15 May 2020 | 780 points | Comments)

22. Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
    (6 May 2020 | 779 points | Comments)

23. Ask HN: Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?
    (6 Feb 2020 | 766 points | Comments)

24. Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?
    (22 Jul 2020 | 738 points | Comments)

25. Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
    (25 Dec 2020 | 729 points | Comments)

26. Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
    (7 May 2020 | 726 points | Comments)

27. Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
    (8 Dec 2020 | 705 points | Comments)

28. Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?
    (11 Jan 2020 | 698 points | Comments)

29. Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?
    (25 Dec 2020 | 689 points | Comments)

30. Ask HN: How can I pick a side project and stick with it?
    (6 Apr 2020 | 686 points | Comments)

31. Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
    (29 Mar 2020 | 679 points | Comments)

32. Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?
    (14 Jun 2020 | 668 points | Comments)

33. Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?
    (3 May 2020 | 666 points | Comments)

34. Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
    (14 Jul 2020 | 657 points | Comments)

35. Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
    (12 Apr 2020 | 629 points | Comments)

36. Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
    (8 Feb 2020 | 621 points | Comments)

37. Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness?
    (19 Apr 2020 | 618 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?
    (19 Jan 2020 | 613 points | Comments)

39. Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?
    (26 Apr 2020 | 607 points | Comments)

40. Ask HN: Who Is Firing?
    (16 Apr 2020 | 604 points | Comments)

41. Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera
    (9 Apr 2020 | 603 points | Comments)

42. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)
    (3 Aug 2020 | 592 points | Comments)

43. Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
    (16 May 2020 | 578 points | Comments)

44. Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?
    (8 May 2020 | 566 points | Comments)

45. Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
    (30 Oct 2020 | 556 points | Comments)

46. Ask HN: Are books worth it?
    (4 Jan 2020 | 553 points | Comments)

47. Ask HN: Best books under 200 pages for developers?
    (30 May 2020 | 551 points | Comments)

48. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)
    (1 May 2020 | 549 points | Comments)

49. Ask HN: Good ways to capture institutional knowledge?
    (1 Mar 2020 | 547 points | Comments)

50. Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
    (11 Jul 2020 | 537 points | Comments)

51. Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?
    (14 Mar 2020 | 527 points | Comments)

52. Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius?
    (14 Mar 2020 | 524 points | Comments)

53. Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
    (17 May 2020 | 524 points | Comments)

54. Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on professional development?
    (18 Nov 2020 | 524 points | Comments)

55. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)
    (1 Jun 2020 | 515 points | Comments)

56. Ask HN: What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?
    (14 Feb 2020 | 496 points | Comments)

57. Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 assembly?
    (8 Feb 2020 | 492 points | Comments)

58. Ask HN: How does your company manage its encryption keys?
    (2 Jun 2020 | 488 points | Comments)

59. Ask HN: Top Coursera Courses?
    (29 Nov 2020 | 486 points | Comments)

60. Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming?
    (13 Apr 2020 | 483 points | Comments)

61. Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?
    (6 Nov 2020 | 479 points | Comments)

62. Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
    (28 Dec 2020 | 476 points | Comments)

63. Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?
    (15 Apr 2020 | 472 points | Comments)

64. Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?
    (18 Jun 2020 | 472 points | Comments)

65. Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real?
    (12 Mar 2020 | 465 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: Any job boards and age-friendly companies for older developers?
    (27 May 2020 | 452 points | Comments)

67. Ask HN: How to self-study physics?
    (25 Mar 2020 | 451 points | Comments)

68. Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
    (30 Dec 2020 | 446 points | Comments)

69. Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
    (12 Jan 2020 | 444 points | Comments)

70. Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
    (28 Jan 2020 | 442 points | Comments)

71. Ask HN: A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?
    (18 Feb 2020 | 442 points | Comments)

72. Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
    (6 Jun 2020 | 442 points | Comments)

73. Ask HN: Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s
    (7 Jan 2020 | 441 points | Comments)

74. Ask HN: Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?
    (14 Mar 2020 | 440 points | Comments)

75. Ask HN: What are some examples of good database schema designs?
    (14 Feb 2020 | 437 points | Comments)

76. Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
    (5 Jun 2020 | 437 points | Comments)

77. Ask HN: How do I learn C properly?
    (8 Mar 2020 | 432 points | Comments)

78. Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020?
    (5 Jan 2020 | 428 points | Comments)

79. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
    (1 Oct 2020 | 426 points | Comments)

80. Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
    (24 Dec 2020 | 424 points | Comments)

81. Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?
    (29 Jan 2020 | 422 points | Comments)

82. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)
    (1 Jul 2020 | 422 points | Comments)

83. Ask HN: How to properly manage a product roadmap?
    (9 Apr 2020 | 421 points | Comments)

84. Ask HN: How do you learn complex, dense technical information?
    (14 Feb 2020 | 420 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?
    (27 Aug 2020 | 416 points | Comments)

86. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)
    (1 Apr 2020 | 413 points | Comments)

87. Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
    (23 Jun 2020 | 413 points | Comments)

88. Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?
    (25 May 2020 | 410 points | Comments)

89. Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself
    (18 May 2020 | 409 points | Comments)

90. Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?
    (1 Aug 2020 | 409 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?
    (17 Feb 2020 | 408 points | Comments)

92. Ask HN: Are you depressed?
    (15 Nov 2020 | 408 points | Comments)

93. Ask HN: Are there any openly available software architecture documents?
    (10 Jan 2020 | 407 points | Comments)

94. Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working culture?
    (12 Dec 2020 | 406 points | Comments)

95. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)
    (2 Jan 2020 | 403 points | Comments)

96. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)
    (2 Mar 2020 | 400 points | Comments)

97. Ask HN: Co-founder wants me to leave but won't entertain a buy out offer
    (22 Dec 2020 | 399 points | Comments)

98. Ask HN: Who has been laid off?
    (3 Apr 2020 | 391 points | Comments)

99. Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
    (21 May 2020 | 386 points | Comments)

100. Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?
     (9 Jun 2020 | 385 points | Comments)