1. For post series B companies. From day zero until either profit, IPO, or a year after the series B, how much code that was initially written is still in production?

  2. What kind of pre-money valuation do fellow HNers see after completing a program like YCombinator, TechStars, etc?

  3. I'm interested in how people are handling blocking of ads and javascript on their sites. How do you prepare for users doing this type of blocking? Do you test for third party and javascript blocking?

  4. I.e., can you tell italic text from normal text? A comment made by klausa [1] 16 days ago made me feel better, as I was not alone in not being able to see italics properly rendered in my Android Chrome browser. (I own a…

  5. Products are traditionally physical, i.e., tanglble, goods There are exceptions, e.g., what are sometimes referred to as "financial products" such as insurance, mortgage loans, pension funds, etc. Do so-called "tech"…

  6. YC News contains articles that can be categorized as 'tech news', 'useful', '4 entrepreneur ', 'fun', etc. It can save ones time to know the content type before clicking the link. Just wanted to know whether idea is…

  7. I've been interested in Node.js's file naming convention for modules with two words. When using require() to include files in your projects, what convention do you abide by? Because you can't use hyphen within a…

  8. I know there's already a small discussion (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714917) but I wanted to do a poll to ask if you like the redesign and say why or why not?

  9. See http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests/ for more information. I am not affiliated with github in any way. Also, if you'd like to comment: Are you forced to use them because of the rest of your team? Would you use…

  10. I have seen few people who suffer a lot in finding their ideal cofounder? Is that really true? If it is, is there any solution apart from traditionally classified. Anyone/startup working on it to fix this crucial…

  11. Related ongoing thread: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237663 - May 2026 (384 comments)

  12. For context, see: Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1337

  13. Being developers, there is strong argument that working from your choice of location/home etc. gives us a lot of room to build stuff better. If given a choice considering all else being equal, how much Pay cut would you…

  14. What is your hourly rate (in USD) for on-site and out-of-town software consulting?

  15. How many people have showdead enabled? I am genuinely curious. If unsure click on your username in the top right and look for the showdead pull-down menu option. Showdead allows people to see [dead] submissions and…

  16. If your company maintains roughly identical iOS and Android apps, is one app's code quality/architecture noticeably better than the other? And why?

  17. After reading this post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3728664, I was curious as to where we each see ourselves. What is the make-up of hackernews?

  18. I've applied to Y Combinator a few times. I'm curious to see the distribution across HN readers.

  19. Just a quick view on how many people out there are printing their instagram pictures through websites like prinstagram

  20. Reading all this about the Adblock/NoScript saga has made me curious. Mozilla shows only 7 million active users (of perhaps 250 million Firefox users), but I bet they skew very heavily toward the "power user" crowd.

  21. Visited their site once (teamtreehouse.com), and now I see an ad every day. Are these guys pouring a ton of money into customer acquisition? Is there that much demand for the education services they offer?

  22. I have a job offer at a good YC startup, and yesterday the opportunity opened up to also get a job as iOS/Mac developer at Apple. On the startup, I would work (most likely) on an iPad app, which is basically the same…