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This is possibly a very stupid question, but I'm curious. Imagine I own a start-up called Foo. Facebook offers to buy Foo for $n. This sounds great, except I think there's a good chance that Facebook will grow Foo to be…

Occasionally, on Amazon, I've seen that some products will be positioned near a silhouette of a person, for scale. This results in an image that cleanly relates the relative size of the product to the consumer, likely…

Given how ML is now the cool thing, I realize this may make me look, um, not cool: How would you describe what ML can offer me, a non-ML-saavy tech organization? When does it work better than manually programming…

I find myself striving for ideal and perfect solutions in parts of my work that might not matter much. Sometimes it's probably worth the time and detail, but admittedly, a lot of the time it isn't. It's just more fun…

It's a simple question. I did some Googling, but I figured the collective wisdom of Hacker News might have much more fulfilling search results.

Make me a website that does the following and I promise you unbound riches: - To select an area: Allow me to draw a region on a map. No dropdown of giant arbitrary areas. No checkboxes of giant arbitrary areas. No…

I'm curious as to what HN'ers want, why they want those things, and how they decided to want those things. Same goes for not want. Personally, I find these questions difficult to answer and frequently occurring.

I'm curious -- what does HN think are the "big trends" in the digital space right now, or in the near future? I've seen a lot of ideas shot down, deconstructed, etc (eg: Groupon, AirBNB), and frankly the only things I…

I'm thinking of creating a product finder website, but first would like to know what pain points people typically encounter when trying to find the right product. An example use case might be: You want to buy GPS for…

I've started the process of looking for work (mainly Javascript, PHP, MySQL, and willing and able to learn anything), and I have to say it really sucks. The problems are: * Same listings across hundreds of websites. *…

It'd be interesting to get a glimpse of some applicant's URLs, and you'll likely get some feedback. Just a tagline and a URL will suffice. If you don't wish to share that, then even the market you're in would be…

http://www.dashler.com/toolbar/ Dashler Toolbar is a bookmarklet that opens up a toolbar of shortcuts to various webpages, and allows for super easy bookmarking. You can open the toolbar, highlight content, then open up…

I'm not sure what to write here. I busted my ass for almost 3 weeks to get this out. I'd really appreciate any feedback you can offer. Even if it's "this is stupid" or "cool". Anything at all helps me rationalize the…

Everybody uses Google, Bing, DDG, or some other search engine. But are the search giants as ubiquitous as they seem? I think there's a great value to individual sites' search features, mainly because they go beyond the…

I'm 90% done the features of a web app that I'm really quite excited about. I only have a couple of things to finish up before I'll be posting up a Beta for you all to play with. One of those things, at the insistence…

I'm assuming that Firefox gets money through searches performed from its default start page and through the search box on the upper right of the browser. Two part question: 1) How did this deal come about? Is there a…

Here's the idea: feedbackshare.com -- give feedback, get feedback. A fair feedback sharing site for webmasters. The idea is simple. 1) You create a feedback request which consists of a link, and some guidance as to the…

Sometimes when I start reading HN comments I get the overwhelming feeling that I am not even a tiny drop in the giant ocean of talent, knowledge, drive, determination, skill, and genius that collectively contributes to…