1. If you were required to work in an office (home office excluded), what would be your preferred arrangement among the following choices?

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  3. Do you think it's better to have 1 big site, with subsites or a number of separate sites? I mean if you consider everything from coverage to SEO, to acquisition talks. So, if you have 1 big site, it'd be:…

  4. Curious to know what the preferred choice of app hosting is here

  5. Would you pay for it? if yes how much, if no why<p>Thanks

  6. Which unix-like platform or GNU/Linux distribution do you use for your development work?

  7. A lot of the news sources I have– many of whom are individual independent thinkers I read– have seemed to increase in BS content lately.

  8. With the whole SOPA debacle and Domain Transfer Day coming up, I'm interested in seeing who the HackerNews crowd uses for their domains.

  9. For context, in the United States, should the Social Security Administration be an Open Identity provider? Should state Departments of Motor Vehicles be Open Identity providers? On the one hand, I can see a number of…

  10. The gender poll [1] got me thinking about demographics, and right now, I'm most curious where HNers live. It looks like this kind of poll hasn't been done in a while [2]. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5520342…

  11. I've noticed many security experts and powerful people using tape to cover their cameras on their laptops. I wonder how common this is in the wider world. Do you take more or less extensive measures?

  12. Is humility an important trait for entrepreneurs to have? Are successful entrepreneurs humble or do they lack humility?

  13. Leave your preferred flavour in comments

  14. Mark Zuckerberg predicted early in the year by the end of the year we would have AI that is equivalent to "mid-level" engineer. Was he right in that prediction? If you would "rate" the level of Claude Opus/Gemini…

  15. Pollify-ing an Ask HN [1] from sferik inspired by recent news about Coin.[2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745223 [2]…

  16. Recent advances in AI promise to make most of the handy work of coding a thing of the past. Do you still write your own code?

  17. This goes out to all the freelancers out there: When you meet with a client do you bill for that time?

  18. I'm intrigued with the question about how long people in HN can concentrate on a single task related to programming, without losing focus.

  19. In the movies the hackers almost always have a terminal with a black background and green text. Personally I use black text on a white background. I was wondering what combination is used the most and if there a lot of…

  20. Mozilla have removed the "Disable JavaScript" checkbox from Firefox 23 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5968237). I am curious to see the balance of opinions on this matter, so: do you approve? (The choices here…

  21. Regardless of OS how many process are running on your system?

  22. Some of us depend so much on Gmail. Just wondering what if..

  23. I have traditionally run my side projects as a sole-proprietorship, but it appears that an LLC provides some legal protection in case the business gets sued, etc.<p>For those of you with LLC's, why, and how did you go…