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I'm curious, what are Hacker News' religions? If I'm missing something in the list or if something is offensive, please tell me. (Please vote for one unless more than one fits)

Question asked over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2683302 Not sure why it wasn't an actual poll - maybe they don't have enough karma. Anyway, here is an actual poll. Feel free to comment as to reasons or…

I just read this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516949 and noticed that a few wellknown usernames talked about their age, and were in their 40's and 50's. I was surprised because I thought the crowd here…

Just curious HN. What is your personality type? If you're not aware of the 16 personalities learn more here[1,2]. If you have not taken the test, do here[3]. Don't forget to up vote the poll to get more data. Inspired…

There has been lots of polls about freelancers/consultants hourly rates; but I think they miss a point. You can have a high hourly rate but work little hours; or the other way.Here are the rules: 1. This poll concerns…

I just wanted to see how addicted we really are to Hacker News.

Today is a day. What is your choice?

Since many web applications using a recurring billing model, it would be interesting to see which services people use and why. Please feel free to explain your choice in the comments.

What is your Myers-Briggs personality type? If you don’t know you can find out at http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp or on Facebook at http://apps.facebook.com/my-type/. For info on the types, check out…

We've had some excellent gender articles on here in the last few days (especially http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm), so I thought it would be interesting to see how the community breaks down.

NathanKP commented I would imagine that a fairly large percentage of the Hacker News community probably works for themselves or as freelance contractors. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2392346 ) What do you say…

Inspired by confusion about this poll question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2145250 Where do you physically do most of your work?

I am mostly a night hacker (most productive around 10PM-2AM), but I am thinking of changing my routine. Non-engineers too have hours in which they are most productive. Anecdotally, these hours are when they are not…

I'm just curious how people pronounce the name of the database query language. It seems like most people say Sequel, but I'll occasionally hear someone spell it out.

Reading the thread on whether or not HN should be a "general news" site I can't help but wonder if that opinion is affected by whether or not HN is your primary news source.

The other day at work we had a debate about being productive and a few people were surprised when someone said "if you work with computers it's nearly impossible to have your brain wired in productive tasks for more…

Thanks again to everyone who submitted an app for the HNSearch API contest (http://www.hnsearch.com/contest). We received 28 submissions and couldn't be happier with the results. The winner of the contest will be the…

After seeing the top post related to OneBody the open source Church project I found myself curious as to how the rest of hacker news identified themselves spiritually. Sometimes we make assumptions about a particular…

Not just a poll for startup founders. More generally, if you are a consultant, take contract work, or are an independent contractor have you taken the step to incorporate or organize a LLC for legal protection, or any…

Do you use an adblocker?

Edit: I propose adding the following to HN's stylesheet: a:hover img {opacity: .5;} a[href*=dir\=up] {-webkit-tap-highlight-color: #8ae58a;} a[href*=dir\=down] {-webkit-tap-highlight-color: #e58a8a;} This will help…

Just curious about the makeup of the Hacker News population. (This poll originally had 4 options: "I'm a developer", "I'm a business person", "I do both" and "I do neither". I've modified the poll due to feedback in the…