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I'd like to get an idea about if there's a substantial space to innovate in developer tools that target iOS/OSX, or if XCode is seen as the canonical all-in-one tool by most.

I've sold things on the internet for a long time, and I know the impact fees have had on my businesses - but I'm trying to get an idea on how much it's affecting other people's businesses. I've seen 20% (cart size…

Seeing all these deals and billion dollar aquisitions including some comments on life changing money etc, just wondering what is your number ? It is not necessarily a number to retire, but a number that will give you…

We are recruiting new engineers and having a discussion about whether to include salary information in job descriptions or not. I would love to know what the general consensus and expectations of the HN crowd towards…

There is a condition called "Aphantasia" [0]. People with this condition don't have a "mind's eye". This condition appears to have some correlation with folks with "nerdy" aptitudes, math, CS, etc. When I first heard of…

The exact guidelines as to what belongs on this site, as written in the current edition, are as follows: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you…

Today there was another article about immigration in the US, H1-Bs, immigrants as the driving force for innovation, etc., etc. This has been standard fare in programmer discussions, it seems, for a few years now. Well,…

I find my career as a developer to be quite rewarding both financially and intellectually. However, a couple times a year I find myself in a deep funk wondering what the hell am I doing with my life. How often do you…

This is a little question I'd like to clarify. I see a lot of vocal HNers saying they prefer OSX over anything else, but is that a vocal minority or does that represent a majority here on HN ? Please indicate what you…

For those of you with current or previously successful Internet sites (however you want to define it): what is/was the major cause that fueled your growth? If you don't know, don't answer.

I know, I know....a repost, but I think a poll is a much better option for this sort of question

What are you investing time in learning? I've tried to be pretty general on the top level choices -- upvote as many as apply to you; would love to see specifics in comments.

A large fraction of our http requests come from Yahoo crawlers-- almost 20% yesterday. Their crawler seems significantly stupider than Google's. Yesterday we got 12,423 requests from the Google crawler, of which 4148…

For those of you who consult or contract what do you charge per hour? Extra credit, how much demand are you seeing right now?

Since you guys seem to be in the mood to poll... What is the state of your startup?

I'm not ordinarily a big fan of polls, but I was intrigued by my own curiosity. I wondered how prevelant smoking is among hackers. On one hand, I would think that Hackers would smoke less because they might be more…

I'm submitting this on behalf of ekalvi, who posted this as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3780586

On July 2, Google Reader shut down. I’m a heavy RSS user and I’m quite satisfied with the alternative I found, but I’m always on the lookout for better products. If you used RSS before, what did you do to replace Google…

The stereotype of a hacker would be to stay up into the wee hours, perhaps with the only light being the glow of the monitor. But is this the case? Please round to the nearest 2-hour multiple. (Let me know if you need…