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Top of Year 2021

1. Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
   (7 Apr 2021 | 2022 points | Comments)

2. Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?
   (16 Dec 2021 | 1665 points | Comments)

3. Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?
   (18 Aug 2021 | 964 points | Comments)

4. Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?
   (27 Dec 2021 | 877 points | Comments)

5. Ask HN: I was hit with a patent troll lawsuit, how do I deal with it?
   (21 Jun 2021 | 833 points | Comments)

6. Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
   (27 May 2021 | 819 points | Comments)

7. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
   (23 Dec 2021 | 782 points | Comments)

8. Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?
   (30 Nov 2021 | 755 points | Comments)

9. Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
   (20 Jan 2021 | 740 points | Comments)

10. Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?
    (17 Feb 2021 | 740 points | Comments)

11. Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?
    (19 Jan 2021 | 702 points | Comments)

12. Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
    (22 Oct 2021 | 666 points | Comments)

13. Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
    (19 Aug 2021 | 614 points | Comments)

14. Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
    (1 Nov 2021 | 614 points | Comments)

15. Ask HN: Best Way to Contact YouTube
    (13 Dec 2021 | 604 points | Comments)

16. Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?
    (1 Dec 2021 | 594 points | Comments)

17. Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
    (23 Sep 2021 | 575 points | Comments)

18. Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work
    (22 Jun 2021 | 563 points | Comments)

19. Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo
    (4 Jun 2021 | 560 points | Comments)

20. Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?
    (17 Aug 2021 | 547 points | Comments)

21. Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
    (14 Feb 2021 | 544 points | Comments)

22. Ask HN: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing
    (19 Nov 2021 | 534 points | Comments)

23. Ask HN: What are you working on?
    (14 Jan 2021 | 529 points | Comments)

24. Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
    (15 Apr 2021 | 529 points | Comments)

25. Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?
    (18 Aug 2021 | 529 points | Comments)

26. Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
    (26 Nov 2021 | 515 points | Comments)

27. Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?
    (24 Dec 2021 | 515 points | Comments)

28. Ask HN: Why is everything changing too fast?
    (6 Dec 2021 | 513 points | Comments)

29. Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?
    (20 May 2021 | 483 points | Comments)

30. Ask HN: Notion is withholding my company data, what can I do?
    (24 Jun 2021 | 479 points | Comments)

31. Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for?
    (3 Nov 2021 | 471 points | Comments)

32. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
    (1 Feb 2021 | 461 points | Comments)

33. Ask HN: Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do?
    (21 Dec 2021 | 454 points | Comments)

34. Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
    (26 Mar 2021 | 451 points | Comments)

35. Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery?
    (4 Mar 2021 | 449 points | Comments)

36. Ask HN: Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation across the web?
    (12 Dec 2021 | 445 points | Comments)

37. Ask HN: Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?
    (27 Nov 2021 | 442 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
    (16 Mar 2021 | 441 points | Comments)

39. Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?
    (29 Nov 2021 | 436 points | Comments)

40. Ask HN: Good books/courses to learn networking essentials for web developers?
    (27 Jun 2021 | 430 points | Comments)

41. Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job
    (19 Dec 2021 | 425 points | Comments)

42. Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?
    (19 Dec 2021 | 423 points | Comments)

43. Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?
    (18 Apr 2021 | 422 points | Comments)

44. Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
    (9 Jan 2021 | 420 points | Comments)

45. Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?
    (10 Mar 2021 | 416 points | Comments)

46. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
    (1 Apr 2021 | 416 points | Comments)

47. Ask HN: Own .com for 7 years, a new company trademarked my name registered .NET
    (11 Dec 2021 | 409 points | Comments)

48. Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal?
    (17 Dec 2021 | 408 points | Comments)

49. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)
    (4 Jan 2021 | 407 points | Comments)

50. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)
    (1 Jul 2021 | 399 points | Comments)

51. Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005 Google?
    (2 Dec 2021 | 398 points | Comments)

52. Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?
    (13 Jan 2021 | 392 points | Comments)

53. Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?
    (27 Dec 2021 | 390 points | Comments)

54. Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
    (18 May 2021 | 387 points | Comments)

55. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)
    (1 Nov 2021 | 383 points | Comments)

56. Ask HN: What mental models do you use everyday?
    (21 Nov 2021 | 383 points | Comments)

57. Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?
    (12 Dec 2021 | 382 points | Comments)

58. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)
    (1 Oct 2021 | 375 points | Comments)

59. Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today?
    (4 Oct 2021 | 371 points | Comments)

60. Ask HN: How to negotiate continuing to work remotely?
    (11 May 2021 | 370 points | Comments)

61. Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering?
    (5 Jan 2021 | 365 points | Comments)

62. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)
    (1 Jun 2021 | 365 points | Comments)

63. Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
    (16 May 2021 | 364 points | Comments)

64. Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
    (30 May 2021 | 362 points | Comments)

65. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
    (1 Mar 2021 | 361 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
    (21 Mar 2021 | 360 points | Comments)

67. Ask HN: How to get started with audio programming?
    (25 May 2021 | 358 points | Comments)

68. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
    (2 Aug 2021 | 357 points | Comments)

69. Ask HN: Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?
    (12 Oct 2021 | 356 points | Comments)

70. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)
    (1 Sep 2021 | 355 points | Comments)

71. Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned
    (24 Dec 2021 | 352 points | Comments)

72. Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?
    (11 Nov 2021 | 348 points | Comments)

73. Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
    (12 Apr 2021 | 347 points | Comments)

74. Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
    (5 Apr 2021 | 345 points | Comments)

75. Ask HN: Recruiters want people who do side projects, yet contracts forbid them?
    (15 Jul 2021 | 344 points | Comments)

76. Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?
    (6 Nov 2021 | 340 points | Comments)

77. Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't
    (5 Sep 2021 | 338 points | Comments)

78. Ask HN: Do we need a Google Customers Union? Could it work?
    (13 Jan 2021 | 336 points | Comments)

79. Ask HN: How to learn proper systems programming?
    (21 Jun 2021 | 336 points | Comments)

80. Ask HN: Why are e-ink note-taking devices so expensive compared to iPads?
    (15 Feb 2021 | 334 points | Comments)

81. Ask HN: Why doesn't YC list compensation for their own open positions?
    (29 Dec 2021 | 331 points | Comments)

82. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)
    (3 May 2021 | 328 points | Comments)

83. Ask HN: Is the Great Resignation in tech real? If so, why?
    (24 Oct 2021 | 325 points | Comments)

84. Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google shows me ads for it. Why?
    (18 Apr 2021 | 323 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implement hibernation?
    (8 Apr 2021 | 322 points | Comments)

86. Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company?
    (27 Nov 2021 | 321 points | Comments)

87. Ask HN: I've realized I'm a bad software engineer and I'm over 30, what's next?
    (31 Mar 2021 | 320 points | Comments)

88. Ask HN: Whatever happened to exploring the internet?
    (24 Oct 2021 | 320 points | Comments)

89. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?
    (2 Jan 2021 | 319 points | Comments)

90. Ask HN: I've lost faith in myself as a developer, how do I get it back?
    (15 Dec 2021 | 318 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
    (25 Aug 2021 | 312 points | Comments)

92. Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
    (23 Apr 2021 | 307 points | Comments)

93. Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?
    (26 Aug 2021 | 306 points | Comments)

94. Ask HN: What things has tech made worse in your life?
    (10 Dec 2021 | 305 points | Comments)

95. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)
    (1 Dec 2021 | 304 points | Comments)

96. Ask HN: What huge mistake did you make early in your career?
    (18 Jun 2021 | 303 points | Comments)

97. Ask HN: Recommended books and papers on distributed systems?
    (1 Feb 2021 | 302 points | Comments)

98. Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?
    (14 Oct 2021 | 300 points | Comments)

99. Ask HN: Please share your experience teaching your kids to program
    (5 Jan 2021 | 295 points | Comments)

100. Ask HN: Advice about aging parents
     (3 Dec 2021 | 291 points | Comments)