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Pick the closest year to when you think it will become more likely than not (probability over 50%). For the purpose of this poll, "AGI" means "AI as good as or better than a smart human at any intellectual task".

I always end up having anywhere between 10 - 25 tabs open at any time. I'm not sure if it's that I need to use Instapaper or get into bookmarking more but i'm interested in if anyone else is in a similar situation.

Whenever you're done with fixing up with new hardware or tinkering around some network settings, which is the first page you open when you launch your browser to test if you're internet connection is working fine?

HN's small font size comes up once in a while. It's not much of a problem since all major browsers can zoom pages but I'm curious what level of zoom the average reader uses, if any.

Simple question, how long did you lurk as a guest before actually signing on for an account

Hello HN, it's a pretty informal survey, but it may show some light on how prevalent this is right now. Please vote for the situation that applies to you, and don't forget to upvote the poll itself (a vote in a poll…

Item http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1755903 just begs for a poll:

Spotify Joe Rogan story shows up 4th in best today on HN. I wonder how the HN crow actually votes with their money on it. UPDATE: I specifically did not include any option, representing what one “would” or “might” do.…

Is it ordered-in, cooked in-house, or do you get a stipend?

Saw a post that PG's account is 10 years old. So was wondering about the distribution of users joining in. PS: Mine is 3510 days old. ;-)

Do you think AI is possible, and If so, will it be friendly to us (allow us to live) or not

Curious about the distribution of operating system usage among HN users.

SOPA is getting really popular around the Internet and on HN, but I feel most of it is based on third-hand interpretations. There is enough Pro-SOPA FUD out there already but I'm worried that we starting to see a new…

Let's compile these and send them to the admins. Create a poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll Poll results: https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hnpoll.html?id=34989529

What percentage of lines of code generated by Claude Code or your coding agent of choice, do you actually manually review in March, 2026, prior to committing?

Which editor/IDE do you use daily? What do you use it for? Which platform? Post something about your workflow and maybe a link to your dotfiles/config

I read all this Wave talk, but I don't really care much about it, not even sure if it's even necessary. I think that trying to mix social (which Google needs to do) with collaboration, with e-mail, with IM, with…

In the US the IRS will tax trades from cryptocoins to fiat this past year as a capital gain. Hodl < 1year = short term and hodl > 1year = long term gain. Moving forward the IRS will likely be taxing coin to coin trades…

Trying to better understand if people read the FAQ before posting. Inspiration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25391979

For professional use ? Hobbyist use ? I probably rely on Python and JS when I want to build a side project, but I prefer C# professionally.

If you have a Bluetooth device that you use sometimes but not all the time with your computer or phone, do you leave Bluetooth on even when you're not using it?

I'm curious what software (if any) you use to collect your freelancing payments. Do you invoice weekly? Monthly? Do you get paid half up front and half when the project is finished? What invoicing software do you use?…

Though I've always assumed the NSA (etc.) watched for keywords, I've recently begun to feel still more nervous about using the words "terrorism" or "bomb" (etc.) within correspondence (I'm even censoring myself in this…