The Best Ask HN Threads of All Time
We track 5,902 stories from Hacker News, averaging 262 points each. Together they drew 1,169,803 comments, 198 per story on average.
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Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
SimingtonFCC · 5 Sep 2023
3.4k pts
925 comments
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Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
zachrip · 19 Apr 2020
3.3k pts
473 comments
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Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?
genedangelo · 31 May 2020
2.6k pts
531 comments
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Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
paraschopra · 23 Jan 2025
2.2k pts
396 comments
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Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
Uptrenda · 21 Jul 2022
2.1k pts
753 comments
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Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
lmueongoqx · 7 Apr 2021
2k pts
1.1k comments
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Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
apitman · 5 Feb 2019
2k pts
1.2k comments
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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
l2silver · 27 Apr 2023
1.9k pts
1.8k comments
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Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
RBBronson123 · 2 Aug 2017
1.9k pts
506 comments
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Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
ramphastidae · 1 Sep 2019
1.8k pts
390 comments
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Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
dang · 2 Apr 2025
1.8k pts
462 comments
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Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
xylo · 24 Jun 2019
1.7k pts
1.1k comments
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Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe
danrocks · 30 Nov 2021
1.7k pts
655 comments
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Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
CliffStoll · 6 May 2026
1.7k pts
258 comments
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Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?
ConfessionTime · 16 Dec 2021
1.7k pts
1.1k comments
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Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
wasteme · 17 Sep 2020
1.7k pts
729 comments
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Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down
RBBronson123 · 2 Jun 2022
1.6k pts
353 comments
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Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
dang · 5 Dec 2016
1.6k pts
1.2k comments
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Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business
yaythefuture · 15 Sep 2022
1.6k pts
678 comments
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Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
winston_smith · 23 May 2020
1.5k pts
574 comments
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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
gajus · 23 Oct 2019
1.5k pts
657 comments
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Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
newsbinator · 20 Nov 2019
1.5k pts
1.1k comments
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Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
blickentwapft · 19 Aug 2020
1.4k pts
644 comments
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Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
dustinkirkland · 31 Mar 2017
1.4k pts
1.1k comments
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Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living
callmevlad · 15 Jan 2021
1.4k pts
182 comments
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Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
geuis · 13 Nov 2016
1.4k pts
318 comments
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Started a stupid company. Failed.
themanthatfell · 27 Nov 2013
1.3k pts
407 comments
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Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
Hold-And-Modify · 5 Feb 2025
1.3k pts
524 comments
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Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
rickybule · 28 Aug 2025
1.3k pts
732 comments
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Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
futur321 · 5 Jan 2020
1.3k pts
970 comments
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Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
dhr · 13 May 2020
1.3k pts
2.2k comments
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Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
richtapestry · 22 Oct 2019
1.3k pts
918 comments
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Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
simonswords82 · 3 Dec 2018
1.3k pts
366 comments
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51
AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
nprateem · 17 Jul 2026
1.3k pts
756 comments
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Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
cloudking · 15 Jun 2026
1.3k pts
563 comments
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Tell HN: Thanks to thehodge and littlewarden.com, this site is up today
dang · 9 Sep 2021
1.3k pts
78 comments
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Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
7tech · 22 Aug 2022
1.3k pts
508 comments
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Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
rrishi · 3 Feb 2023
1.3k pts
598 comments
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Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
gavagai691 · 7 Nov 2022
1.3k pts
417 comments
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Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline
rmcginnis · 6 May 2019
1.3k pts
565 comments
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Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon
boren_ave11 · 18 Mar 2016
1.2k pts
690 comments
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