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Following http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221831 and the countless other complaints about Internet Explorer, I was curious what the general feeling here was about whether it was possible / desirable actually to…

The website isn't easy to navigate using an iPad, the comments link is too small as as the voting arrows. I am considering building (assuming the data is freely available for such an endeavor) either a different…

All the controversy surrounding Atom sparked my curiosity – what do HNers use as their primary text editor? Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5736367

I have a theory about the reasons why people blog (and why they don't). Please help me with this survey - I will publish the results as a post soon.

When do you upvote an article?

What interview process produces the maximum outcome of best candidates, best questions, and best use of time? Why?<p>Do you do 1 on 1? 2 on 1? 3 on 1?

What 'interface' do you use to perform most common Git tasks, such as clone, commit, push, ...

Since we're having polls on every other piece of personal information...

Since the discussion about savings[0] turned into a conversation over semantics and investing, I'm curious to see if there are any trends in HN readership. I expect some people won't feel comfortable commenting about…

In days of yore, freshmeat.net was considered a central and highly important (and influential) website in the F/OSS world. Projects announced new releases there regularly and it was a great place to keep track of…

We're ordering a whole bunch of t-shirts and trying to figure out what distribution to order. Let us know your t-shirt size in this poll. Hopefully this will provide useful information for other startups in the same…

Simple question. What do you use to deploy your application? Why?<p>Side questions: Do you use a staging server?

After reading this article http://health.yahoo.net/experts/menshealth/most-dangerous-thing-youll-do-all-day I am determined to change my workplace setup. It looks like the 2 most popular options on HN are standing desk…

Posts about BS jobs seem to generate a lot of discussion here at HN. This subject is obviously close to our hearts. Often people question the validity of the corresponding surveys. Well, let's hold our own.

Some people requested a poll for jgalvez's ask HN post. Here it is:

When I first arrived at HN I found that the links were really good, and the discussions were better. As time has gone by I've found that I've changed, the site has changed, and so my perception of the relative values…

Curious about how promiscuous this audience is about keyboard layouts

I thought it might be interesting to get some numbers about this sensitive topic, as it is being discussed in the Put.io post.

There seem to be many self-hosted PAAS options that have sprung up lately. I'm currently looking to build a PAAS to migrate my personal projects over to and want to get a better feel for what people are actually using.

Since what is assumed to be the last OS X release is going to be released this year, I thought it would be nice to take some time to reflect upon past releases, and see which one is preferred by all…

Someone has recently posted an income poll for 2009 which was quite interesting,but i think it is more important how much debt do you have and how much freedom you loose by being indebted to someone, be it an…