1. For the unfamiliar, git stash [0] is a solution to a problem like this: You're working on a feature, and suddenly realize the need to switch gears to work on something else — say a prod hotfix — and you need to store…

  2. Are you in control of you Hacker News consumption or is the consumption in control of you?

  3. How do you back up your production data?

  4. As I continue down a little project of mine, I realized that I've never written an app that works completely the first time I run it.<p>I wondered if it was my incompetence/lack of experience/ignorance/etc., or…

  5. Reading through the comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7847047 (the recent Krebs carding story) I was surprised at how many people mentioned not only having their details stolen but having it done quite…

  6. Select "Yes" if somebody else is paying for you (i.e. company)

  7. I've always wondered which browser is better for tinkering with the web, firefox + greasemonkey or chrome? Personally I find chrome to be faster and easier to use for script implementation. Also, I'd be grateful to see…

  8. Let me know in the comments if there is an AI chat missing that you use.

  9. On a mobile device, do you prefer a physical hard keyboard, or an on-screen keyboard like that of the iPhone?

  10. About 95% of developers I know use OSX as their primary development machine. The remaining 5% are generally running Ubuntu/Debian, or maybe BSD or a lesser known Linux variant. Personally I dual boot Ubuntu / OSX, but I…

  11. An estimated 1 billion people use iPhones worldwide. Will Neuralink be like that someday?

  12. There's a lot of debate around testing. I'm interested to see how people approach it at work and how satisfied they are with their approach. To preempt arguments about terminology, here's how I'll define the terms for…

  13. With the rise of new search engines like You, Perplexity, and Kagi, I'm wondering what the HN crowd is using as their daily driver.

  14. Has the general community that is HN become more adverse to factual comments so as to fit ideology?

  15. I recently got into a discussion about whether using an IDE really speeds up development time. If you were confronted with a large project and barring organizational constraints, do you believe using an IDE (Visual…

  16. The growing craziness to use JavaScript frameworks to build smooth websites and native apps is on rise. And, recently, VueJS surpassed ReactJS on Github. So, this little poll will help me to get a clear idea about what…

  17. Knowing more about this can hopefully help the PostgreSQL community reason about how much additional code complication is justifiable for fast 32-bit support. If fast 32-bit support is important to you, please also…

  18. I wrote a little bot that watches for links that are rising quickly and submits them to archive.is just in case they're not on servers that'll be able to handle the load. I just did this to scratch an itch myself, but…

  19. I've recently learned that in some countries zero is defined as being both positive and negative. That surprised me, but I'd be interested to know more. Please, vote in the poll, and then comment if you have something…

  20. How moral / ethical / good for the world is your work? If you're doing something very good, what is it?