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Genuine question, curious for answers. People often say "The best founders are able to attract the best talent because they offer options. They also are able to attract them at a far lower salary" I'd be curious see do…

I would suggest that with the current rise of AI/ML startups, people would be working on artificial emotional intelligence.

Related to this HN post on how to overcome instant gratification: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14751439 I find myself a lot of times that I go to bed 1 or 2 hours too late, get distracted a lot from work by all…

Hi HN, We're two founders from The Netherlands without virtually any money looking for a night to stay in or around Palo Alto from Monday to Tuesday this week. We have our interview on Tuesday. Maybe someone in the HN…

The question is pretty straightforward: I'm exploring my options to move to a new startup and I'm wondering if anyone knows any engineering team that has awesomely smart people/team.

I'm a junior dev working for freelance clients and working on my own projects. I've noticed that in the recent couple of months, I've not progressed as well as I hoped I would. Yes, I gained experience and whenever I'm…

I'm working on an app with some non-technical people and I noticed that I find it really hard to keep people in the loop of what you've been doing. I want people to understand what I'm working on and why it's taking a…

Pretty straightforward question and I'm actually asking myself this pretty often. How do you hire people that are better?

Not much more to add: i'm curious to your views on how you would determine what percentage you should give an agency and/or freelancer that helps you build an mvp for stock and later on for a (cheap) fee.

I've got a pretty straightforward question: would you invest in a company that would have a core building team (full time) and a senior, experienced part of the team but that's only part time comitted, while recieving…

What are you looking for if you are searching for a developer on oDesk or any other freelancing site? Do you post a job or do you go look for developers yourself and ask them to join you? How do you determine if they're…

I'm a front-end programmer and I mostly code in javascript. I'm doing a project right now in which none of my skills are needed and I offered to do the front-end of the app with the new Swift lang. I've bought a new mac…

I'm interested to know the so called 'anti-portfolio' of YC. I'm also interested if they had like to share this intel with their community.

The question is pretty straightforward: I'm pretty much out of the sun all day long. Is there any way to work outside with a computer? Maybe a nice setup?

I've always felt like there was some sort of mystery around companies gaining users. People tend to say stuff like: "it went viral", "everyone just wanted to use it" etc. etc. It just seems odd to me that some companies…

I haven't got a PhD but I can (at least) learn and think on that level. I am looking to learn by doing rather than go to an university and spend the next four years studying books. What should I look for when searching…

Dear HN, In my quest on improving the Bitcoin, I've stumbled into one major problem which I think is quite essential to the Bitcoin as a payment platform. And that is that the exchange of BTC -> USD takes up to a couple…

HN, I've been wondering why it is that the idea of building UI's on top of bitcoin seem all the sudden such a good idea, but what it all comes down to for the greater public, is that they can transfer money to…

Hi HN, I was wondering if anyone of you is actively mining for BTC/LTC or anything else, and if someone is really able to turn a profit out of it, or if it's just a hobby thing. Thanks really much! Really looking…