1. I wonder how other companies organize all those little notes and bits that should go "somewhere" for sharing and documentation. Things like phone number lists, Howto's, FAQs, planning documents, and so on. What is your…

  2. I've noticed that new submissions only make it to the front page when they've received a few upmods, and once an item is on the front page it gets many more. The Catch-22 is that not every worthy submission get those…

  3. United has rolled out security questions for its accounts, and I am struggling to pick five "favorite X." Maybe I'm weird though. So I'm curious, how many of the following would you be comfortable answering as a…

  4. Today Bitbucket passed one million users. And it made me wonder what HN use as there favorite (open source) revision control software.

  5. I used the word 'use' instead of 'own', because I own an Apple product but I haven't used it in probably more then five years. But I do understand that by using 'use' it also includes people that use a work Apple…

  6. I'm curious to see what everyone thinks about this common workplace phenomenon. At the very least I'm trying to figure out why this happens. Have you used it knowingly and successfully? Do you not care? Do you hate…

  7. Newcomb's problem is well-known to philosophers and strongly divides opinion. You can read about the question here:…

  8. I've being using the free versions of ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini for months now and they are perfectly fine for what I do. But today I started to question my decision not to "invest" in the premium version of one of…

  9. Do you install apps on your phone, refuse to install, use phone for voice and texting, avoid tech when you can do business face to face or just don't use or own a phone? There's no wrong answer. Just curious how…

  10. With mounting research that open-plan offices reduce productivity, foster poor workplace health, damage employee moral, increase transmission of communicable diseases, and generally don’t end up actually saving much…

  11. Just curious how other work driven, tech centric people are doing in this area of life.

  12. Since people live in different areas I think it would interesting how much vacation is enjoyed in general in our industry around the world.

  13. I noticed a lot of people on HN complain about procrastination, and also, when HN was down the last day, people were calling it the most productive day in the Valley. There are many theories but I am just wondering (and…

  14. I'm interested in learning what classes people enjoyed as kids and how that played a role in where they ended up today. Feel free to choose more than one class.

  15. Would you allow the first generation of plumber robots in your home? If yes is there anything you might hide from its view? The robot camera footage could be shared with anyone.

  16. There still seems to be some disagreement over what the arrows are supposed to be used for, and the FAQ is silent. The topic came up (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3760056) in yesterday's Red Hat article.…

  17. I am trying to decide what to do next. I have coded both of these ideas already, and unsure which to dedicate 100% of my time too, as I will not have time to do both. Perhaps both ideas are too saturated?

  18. I've seen this linked around here a lot, how many HN viewers seriously haven't heard of this yet? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

  19. 7 years since last poll [1]. Lets see where we are at now. I cannot get Algolia to search polls [2], so some similar poll may have been asked in the last 7 years. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5520342 [2] -…

  20. For most hardware or consumer electronics startups I know, CES is viewed as a hassle and a bit out of date, but also a necessity. What do you think?

  21. I have to do a presentation at the end of the month, and there seem to be a lot of choices, but I wanted to ask what's got traction? I'm in medicine, so I don't have the buzz on any of these except deck.js, which was…

  22. A lot of smart people recommend that we should (see http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-two-step-authentication/), and we all know we probably should, but how many of us do?

  23. Perform a search on your email for some of your passwords. Be honest - did you find any?