Ask HN Archive

A few years ago, Gabriel Weinberg put together an excellent archive of the best Ask HN posts on Hacker News. Unfortunately, his list hasn't been updated in close to two years, and many things have changed during that time (and the number of posts on HN has increased sixfold!), so it seemed like an updated list was in order. I've looked at every Ask HN post since Gabriel's list was created, and selected those that I think are worth reading. I've tried to choose those that are interesting, contain good discussion, and whose information is still relevant today. I will also be updating this list as new Ask HNs surface, keeping it relevant for future reads. (If you're here and see that this is many months out of date, harass me and I'll get it updated). The links in each subsection are listed in reverse chronological order, so the most recent discussions will be at the top.

Table of Contents

YCombinator

Hacker News

Startups

Cofounders

Single Founders

Finances and Accounting

Formation

Fundraising

Market Research/Customer Development

Making Money

Hiring

Working at

Advisors

Previous Startups

International

Immigration

Acquisition

Who's Hiring? (September 3, 2010)

Life

Marriage/Dating

Kids

Education

Money

Food

Health

Investing and Finance

Jobs

Freelancing/Consulting

Tools

Computers

Editors

Emacs

Vim

Operating Systems

Outsourcing

Office

Running a website

Hosting

Server software

Databases

Domain names

Payments

Analytics

SSL

SEO

Building Traffic

Reliability

Data

Programming

Languages

Language Choice

Assembly

C

C++

Clojure

Haskell

Java

Javascript

Objective-C

PHP

Python

Ruby

Mobile

iPhone

Android

Design/UI/UX

CSS

Graphics

Marketing/Advertising

Media

Academic Papers

Books

News

Audio

Videos

Web

Writing

Math

Rants

Misc

Ideas

Review My Startup

Stories and Advice


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