1. Once you vote up or down you can't change it.

  2. The Nokia/Microsoft deal is becoming messier and hairier. The Nokia X is real. It might even go GA before the Microsoft deal closes. It's made in Nokia's Chennai plant, which is currently in regulatory limbo. Nokia X is…

  3. A very recent item started: I, like most of us here, am a web developer. I'm not a web developer. Am I in the majority? Or in the minority? I know polls are self-delecting and therefore biased on not worth anything,…

  4. Which of the following tools do you use when making technology decisions for your startup, e.g which of competing software packages to use? Do you have any other to add? What would you like to see in this space?

  5. Just wondering what type of phone do HN users use?

  6. Imagine two scenarios : You have to travel 300 miles by train. There are two trains - 1 requires 4 hours to arrive at your destination (the slow train), and the other requires just 20 minutes to arrive at your…

  7. If you are getting paid 100K a year now and you are working on your own projects on the side after hours. Assuming your current job is mind-numbing, how much more would you like to be paid before you stop working on…

  8. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_requirements

  9. I've read http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2740048 and it made me think about my own product that I'm going to launch within the next 2 weeks. A little background info: As you might have guessed I'm from Switzerland…

  10. Spun out of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464414, "Aphantasia Beginner's Guide". There is an exercise there where you stare at the inverted image of an apple and then look at a blank white square, and can see…

  11. Please include comments on why you do/don't use each one.

  12. This poll is to get a sense of the salary distribution is across software engineers (dev/test/ops) including the value of any stock/RSU's you're entitled to excluding any non-work related passive income (side project…

  13. New docs at https://docs.docker.com/... do we like it?

  14. U.S. (software) patent system is broken. Patent trolls have cost innovators half a trillion dollars (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3017815). The system is becoming ridiculous: companies are spending billions of…

  15. Testing helps with creating high quality code, but it is only an aspect of good codebase management. How many of you audit your code for bugs? Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3702827

  16. Over the last few days I've seen way too many CSS vs. tables posts promoted here. My question is, does anyone care? Don't most people know the pros and cons, the hassles of both, and the reasons for using one over the…

  17. There are sometimes excellent articles written as Twitter threads like this [1] recently. I see debates frequently happening with some people preferring unrolled versions like [2] and some people preferring the…

  18. A tweet by mentalguy[1] piqued my curiosity on this. So folks here who practice XP, do you consider yourself more of an extrovert or introvert? You don't have to only do XP to answer. [1]…

  19. Will you stop buying dairy until producers get bird flu testing certification in place?

  20. I'm building Nue [1] so I'm super curious to know how HN builds their sites and what the current state of affairs is. [1]: https://nuejs.org/