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Just wondering how many people working in technology identify themselves as religious (we're talking the standard definitions of religion here, not Apple versus Microsoft versus Linux type religion).

As administrator of the recently created LinkedIn group, I have the ability to see all of the email addresses there. Unfortunately, other than viewing the members, there are no communication possibilities for the group.…

Are you a Mac, a Linux, or Windows?

Out of curiosity, what do you use to manage passwords? Let us know why you use what you do in the comments if you can. Thanks for the input! And, sorry for the typo the first time -…

I submit bug reports all the time. Whenever I am using software, playing a game, or reading email and something goes wrong I try to track down the support email, but my wife thinks I am crazy. What do you do?

Wanted to get some data for what kind of requirements HN audience has at their work.

With ETH 2.0 as a proxy for “proof of stake”

Things have changed so much over the last year. We now have CLIs, desktop IDEs, and cloud agents all mixing together. Many of us are using more than one agent, but there do not seem to be any great, up-to-date stats on…

I see many stories that would come under the business technology & misc. section that are present on the front page, thereby diluting the more interesting submits on technology, startups, programming. Would the…

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I have a MacBook Air with a tiny SSD, an external drive for additional storage, and a second external drive to back up both of the other drives using Time Machine. I also use Amazon Glacier for offsite, cloud backups.…

On the server, in your chosen language, with access to your data base. PROS: Complete control, one version CONS: Have to make a round trip to change it on-the-fly, lots of data sent down the line, more load on server On…

On a recent article [1] that hit the front page [2], Dan Luu made some comments [3] about his website's minimal styling: > Just as an aside, something I've found funny for a long time is that I get quite a bit of hate…

To me, much more so than Facebook, Slide and RockYou seem like the most egregious example of the current web 2.0 irrational exuberance. But maybe I'm missing something. I remember seeing Max Levchin say they have much…

With Twitter on it's MySpace trajectory, I have started to see more and more Mastodon posts (whose ideology I support with much fan fare) but honestly I think that it won't see much adoption outside of niche groups and…

I've been tracking some basic analytics on my blog[0] and noticed that HN traffic seems to have a skew towards Apple hardware. This got me wondering: what do HNers like to use? I figure dang has much more precise data…

Curious as to the communities view on which YC Start Up has the Best Idea/Chance of Success.

This question has been asked before, for example in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5730762 but that was more than two years ago, and it would be interesting to see if there are any changes.

Okay, a sub-thread in the handshake protocol discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5376223) raises an interesting question: is a phone more commonly carried than cash? Please vote on one of the items below…

What IDE or text editor do you use most day to day?

From all the recent press with female bloggers not doing blogs because of jerks online I was wondering how females actually feel about people on the internet?

Career programmers, I think, like athletes start off as babes in the woods, then become experts, peak and then slowly find that they're no longer the fastest kid on the block. Where on this trajectory are you, if you…

Password manager news seems to be popular today on HN [0][1]. Since I'm curious about this and someone suggested to make a poll about which password managers HN readers use [2], I made a poll. (That suggestion was in a…