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1. Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
   (5 Sep 2023 | 3387 points | Comments)

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

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

4. Ask HN: Is S3 down?
   (28 Feb 2017 | 2589 points | Comments)

5. Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
   (21 Jul 2022 | 2051 points | Comments)

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

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

8. Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
   (27 Apr 2023 | 1901 points | Comments)

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

10. Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?
    (6 Apr 2018 | 1681 points | Comments)

11. Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
    (3 Apr 2018 | 1665 points | Comments)

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

13. Ask HN: Gmail account security
    (23 Jan 2022 | 1508 points | Comments)

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

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

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

17. Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
    (31 Mar 2017 | 1374 points | Comments)

18. Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
    (28 Aug 2025 | 1338 points | Comments)

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

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

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

22. Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
    (3 Dec 2018 | 1322 points | Comments)

23. Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon
    (18 Mar 2016 | 1213 points | Comments)

24. Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?
    (14 Feb 2022 | 1147 points | Comments)

25. Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?
    (11 Jun 2018 | 1139 points | Comments)

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

27. Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?
    (19 Dec 2022 | 1127 points | Comments)

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

29. Ask HN: What has HN given you?
    (19 Feb 2018 | 1095 points | Comments)

30. Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?
    (6 Feb 2022 | 1094 points | Comments)

31. Ask HN: Who is firing?
    (2 Nov 2016 | 1087 points | Comments)

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

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

34. Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?
    (13 Oct 2016 | 1081 points | Comments)

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

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

37. Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
    (24 Oct 2016 | 1036 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
    (3 Jul 2023 | 1014 points | Comments)

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

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

41. Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
    (6 Nov 2022 | 982 points | Comments)

42. Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
    (9 Dec 2025 | 979 points | Comments)

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

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

45. Ask HN: How to get started with machine learning?
    (15 Oct 2016 | 950 points | Comments)

46. Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?
    (31 May 2023 | 947 points | Comments)

47. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    (14 Jan 2026 | 947 points | Comments)

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

49. Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
    (27 Jan 2023 | 934 points | Comments)

50. Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
    (18 Dec 2022 | 931 points | Comments)

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

52. Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read?
    (5 Jun 2017 | 927 points | Comments)

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

54. Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
    (8 Oct 2018 | 911 points | Comments)

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

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

57. Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
    (24 Jun 2018 | 897 points | Comments)

58. Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow?
    (12 Mar 2017 | 893 points | Comments)

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

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

61. Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support
    (8 Jul 2014 | 875 points | Comments)

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

63. Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund
    (6 Apr 2016 | 867 points | Comments)

64. Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?
    (24 Sep 2018 | 867 points | Comments)

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

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

67. Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
    (21 Sep 2022 | 862 points | Comments)

68. Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?
    (9 Dec 2022 | 860 points | Comments)

69. Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
    (25 May 2022 | 859 points | Comments)

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

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

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

73. Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?
    (30 Sep 2018 | 850 points | Comments)

74. Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
    (4 Oct 2016 | 848 points | Comments)

75. Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers
    (19 Apr 2017 | 847 points | Comments)

76. Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?
    (23 Dec 2018 | 842 points | Comments)

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

78. Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?
    (12 Sep 2016 | 822 points | Comments)

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

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

81. Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
    (16 Feb 2017 | 813 points | Comments)

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

83. Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma
    (14 Feb 2015 | 806 points | Comments)

84. Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
    (14 Nov 2022 | 804 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: Is it 'normal' to struggle so hard with work?
    (19 Feb 2018 | 802 points | Comments)

86. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
    (5 Jan 2017 | 800 points | Comments)

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

88. Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023?
    (25 Dec 2023 | 800 points | Comments)

89. Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around
    (31 May 2022 | 798 points | Comments)

90. Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
    (15 Jan 2026 | 798 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
    (24 Aug 2017 | 793 points | Comments)

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

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

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

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

96. Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?
    (11 Dec 2016 | 779 points | Comments)

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

98. Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
    (31 Jan 2023 | 777 points | Comments)

99. Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?
    (16 Sep 2018 | 770 points | Comments)

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