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Top of Year 2024

1. Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?
   (11 Sep 2024 | 1098 points | Comments)

2. Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
   (5 Apr 2024 | 760 points | Comments)

3. Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?
   (13 Jan 2024 | 704 points | Comments)

4. Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?
   (25 May 2024 | 694 points | Comments)

5. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
   (10 Dec 2024 | 667 points | Comments)

6. Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
   (24 Aug 2024 | 634 points | Comments)

7. Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from?
   (1 Dec 2024 | 577 points | Comments)

8. Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
   (5 Aug 2024 | 565 points | Comments)

9. Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?
   (28 Jun 2024 | 561 points | Comments)

10. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
    (1 May 2024 | 549 points | Comments)

11. Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
    (2 Jun 2024 | 532 points | Comments)

12. Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
    (16 Dec 2024 | 530 points | Comments)

13. Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?
    (29 Feb 2024 | 524 points | Comments)

14. Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?
    (31 Dec 2024 | 497 points | Comments)

15. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)
    (1 Jul 2024 | 496 points | Comments)

16. Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?
    (18 Mar 2024 | 479 points | Comments)

17. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
    (2 Sep 2024 | 437 points | Comments)

18. Ask HN: Slow thinkers, how do you compensate for your lack of quick-wittedness?
    (27 Feb 2024 | 427 points | Comments)

19. Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?
    (18 Jul 2024 | 427 points | Comments)

20. Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?
    (19 May 2024 | 422 points | Comments)

21. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)
    (1 Feb 2024 | 418 points | Comments)

22. Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
    (27 Oct 2024 | 411 points | Comments)

23. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)
    (2 Jan 2024 | 405 points | Comments)

24. Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?
    (2 May 2024 | 395 points | Comments)

25. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
    (3 Jun 2024 | 391 points | Comments)

26. Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?
    (18 Jun 2024 | 389 points | Comments)

27. Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
    (18 Jan 2024 | 387 points | Comments)

28. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
    (2 Dec 2024 | 386 points | Comments)

29. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
    (1 Aug 2024 | 383 points | Comments)

30. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)
    (1 Nov 2024 | 379 points | Comments)

31. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)
    (1 Apr 2024 | 377 points | Comments)

32. Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?
    (6 Oct 2024 | 376 points | Comments)

33. Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?
    (14 Sep 2024 | 375 points | Comments)

34. Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?
    (5 Feb 2024 | 372 points | Comments)

35. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)
    (1 Mar 2024 | 368 points | Comments)

36. Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
    (26 Mar 2024 | 365 points | Comments)

37. Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?
    (7 Jun 2024 | 365 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?
    (5 Feb 2024 | 364 points | Comments)

39. Ask HN: What things are happening in ML that we can't hear over the din of LLMs?
    (28 Mar 2024 | 364 points | Comments)

40. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)
    (1 Oct 2024 | 363 points | Comments)

41. Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?
    (3 Jan 2024 | 355 points | Comments)

42. Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?
    (23 Dec 2024 | 355 points | Comments)

43. Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
    (29 Sep 2024 | 354 points | Comments)

44. Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?
    (13 Aug 2024 | 346 points | Comments)

45. Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring?
    (1 Oct 2024 | 337 points | Comments)

46. Ask HN: How can I learn about performance optimization?
    (1 Mar 2024 | 335 points | Comments)

47. Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking?
    (8 Jan 2024 | 326 points | Comments)

48. Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
    (6 May 2024 | 322 points | Comments)

49. Ask HN: My son might be blind – how to best support
    (19 Sep 2024 | 321 points | Comments)

50. Ask HN: Where can I find good legal documents?
    (16 Jan 2024 | 319 points | Comments)

51. Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?
    (28 Dec 2024 | 319 points | Comments)

52. Ask HN: How to store and share passwords in a company?
    (1 Sep 2024 | 316 points | Comments)

53. Ask HN: How do you find part time work?
    (15 Dec 2024 | 315 points | Comments)

54. Ask HN: Does Cloudflare block HN comments if you have code blocks in a reply?
    (14 Jan 2024 | 311 points | Comments)

55. Ask HN: What are the best articles on managing people?
    (11 Feb 2024 | 311 points | Comments)

56. Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?
    (23 Jul 2024 | 307 points | Comments)

57. Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today – alternatives?
    (15 Feb 2024 | 300 points | Comments)

58. Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?
    (20 Oct 2024 | 296 points | Comments)

59. Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?
    (30 Sep 2024 | 290 points | Comments)

60. Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)
    (7 Nov 2024 | 288 points | Comments)

61. Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
    (23 Oct 2024 | 287 points | Comments)

62. Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
    (23 Dec 2024 | 286 points | Comments)

63. Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
    (16 Oct 2024 | 282 points | Comments)

64. Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
    (23 Apr 2024 | 278 points | Comments)

65. Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI
    (27 Nov 2024 | 275 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: Good books on philosophy of engineering?
    (19 Jan 2024 | 271 points | Comments)

67. Ask HN: Which books/resources to understand modern Assembler?
    (21 Apr 2024 | 269 points | Comments)

68. Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?
    (20 Sep 2024 | 268 points | Comments)

69. Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?
    (3 Nov 2024 | 259 points | Comments)

70. Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?
    (30 May 2024 | 257 points | Comments)

71. Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?
    (17 Aug 2024 | 257 points | Comments)

72. Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn?
    (13 Dec 2024 | 257 points | Comments)

73. Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?
    (6 Dec 2024 | 251 points | Comments)

74. Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?
    (3 Oct 2024 | 250 points | Comments)

75. Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
    (4 Jul 2024 | 246 points | Comments)

76. Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?
    (15 Nov 2024 | 244 points | Comments)

77. Ask HN: I want to create IMDB for open source projects
    (15 Apr 2024 | 241 points | Comments)

78. Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?
    (22 Apr 2024 | 238 points | Comments)

79. Ask HN: How do browsers isolate internal audio from microphone input?
    (9 Jul 2024 | 238 points | Comments)

80. Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?
    (12 Sep 2024 | 234 points | Comments)

81. Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters?
    (16 Jan 2024 | 233 points | Comments)

82. Ask HN: Any good essays/books/advice about software sales?
    (30 Sep 2024 | 229 points | Comments)

83. Ask HN: Those who've joined a friend's startup as an employee, how did that go?
    (28 Jan 2024 | 227 points | Comments)

84. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
    (25 Dec 2024 | 227 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: Best way to learn robotics with a 10 year old?
    (25 Jul 2024 | 224 points | Comments)

86. Ask HN: Why am I suddenly unemployable?
    (15 Jan 2024 | 221 points | Comments)

87. Ask HN: How to onboard yourself to a new product/industry in a new job?
    (21 Mar 2024 | 216 points | Comments)

88. Ask HN: How to handle user file uploads?
    (1 May 2024 | 214 points | Comments)

89. Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?
    (6 May 2024 | 208 points | Comments)

90. Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
    (22 Apr 2024 | 207 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: Resources about math behind A/B testing
    (8 Aug 2024 | 207 points | Comments)

92. Ask HN: What open source projects need help?
    (16 Nov 2024 | 206 points | Comments)

93. Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs?
    (11 Jan 2024 | 203 points | Comments)

94. Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page?
    (4 Apr 2024 | 200 points | Comments)

95. Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?
    (19 Jun 2024 | 200 points | Comments)

96. Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts
    (20 Nov 2024 | 198 points | Comments)

97. Ask HN: What is the current (Apr. 2024) gold standard of running an LLM locally?
    (1 Apr 2024 | 195 points | Comments)

98. Ask HN: Can the black border atop the HN mourning header link to who died?
    (20 Jan 2024 | 194 points | Comments)

99. Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware
    (27 Apr 2024 | 192 points | Comments)

100. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)
     (1 Jul 2024 | 186 points | Comments)