1. If given a free choice and visa and such were not a problem then which of these would you work for?

  2. Do you chat with others about an article after you read it?

  3. Over the past 6 months or so it has felt like more accounts are getting hellbanned. I know a there is at least a vocal minority who feel that this has gotten excessive ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4827922 ).…

  4. If you had to authorize a service through Oauth, which method is least intrusive to you / where do you think the dropoff rate would be lower?

  5. What with all the familial and social obligations that crop up this time of year (let alone work), I've been hard pressed to focus time on my side projects. It's Sunday afternoon, my friends are out and about, and I'm…

  6. There are obviously a lot of intelligent and driven people here, bound together by the interest in startups. As many of you know it is hard to do a startup on your own, and almost equally hard to find good founding…

  7. You can upvote several distros if you use them all regularly. The list of distros mostly comes from a recent HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36838712

  8. On average how many stories do you read each day on HN? I started wondering about this after several people recently asked for a daily version of my Hacker Newsletter (which is a weekly email curated by me). After…

  9. The programming language behind the web application framework, but you can specify what you use in the comments.

  10. With Windows 10 support ending and Linux gaming looking better and better every day, I'm considering migrating my PC to Linux and was curious what the broader populace uses. If willing, please comment on why use chose…

  11. The previous polls asking HN readers their age were in 2009 and 2013 ... based on the article related to the average age of successful founders (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16808737), this one also includes…

  12. Suppose that back when you originally created your Facebook account, they had the same privacy policies and open graph initiative that they do today. Would you still decide to sign up for your Facebook account?

  13. This is something I'm interested in getting people's opinions on.

  14. What is your Myers-Briggs personality type? If you don't know you can find out here: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp For information on the Myers-Briggs type indicator check this out:…

  15. Specifically midnight in your time zone. Not virtual meetings, physical presence.

  16. Just curious what the average uptime is for any production servers that the hacker news community works with.

  17. Seeing lots of people argue about NeXTStep on a recent submission, made me think about using a little known feature of HN - A Poll! Pick your answer (by voting it up):

  18. What would you say the worst tech PR fuck-up is this week? Godaddy's SOPA support followed by their milquetoast flip-flop, or Ocean Marketing's e-mail exchange with Penny Arcade?

  19. This gets argued on here not uncommonly, and I'm curious what the community thinks. I tried to capture the main differences I hear talked about.

  20. In the field of Web Design, one thing that confuses beginners as well as intermediates is the choice of Fixed Width vs Fluid Width. Fixed width websites like their description have a fixed defined width for the entire…

  21. What proportion of HN readers have had Covid19

  22. Edit/Stupid Me Our startup is Ramamia, easy and private sharing with your family. We're having internal debates at Ramamia about which business model we should focus on. We could do both, but we're a small team + not a…