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I have an old iPad air that I used to browse which works great for most text-based sites (HN, old.reddit), but fails to render newer sites. I thought of setting up a browser in a cloud instance and VNCing to that via…

I just recently learned that .Net runs on Linux, but the only information I can find is how to install it. Does anyone have any information (links, github repos) of successful projects running on Linux?

With some places starting to leave quarantine in various forms, I'm looking for indicators to get a sense of when the economy is starting to recover. Does anyone have any favorite real-time (or near real-time) economic…

When I look at web marketing data (e.g., Alexa), I only ever see results for URLs with Latin-based URLs, even for regions with non-Latin alphabets. Do users from places with non-Latin alphabets type in Latin website…

For countries without Latin-based scripts, do you type internationalized domain names (IDNs with punycode) in your browsers? How about countries with accents (e.g., France, Spain)?

I've seen many cases of people having a suddens success in their career, leading to a rapid progression to the next levels and beyond. What was your career breakthrough?

I notice that most of the younger people I work with (20 somethings and I'm 40 something) do not feel comfortable drawing out ideas on a whiteboard. Is this a generational phenomenon? I'm wondering if people have become…

How much up-front documentation do you write before starting a software project? Do you do any tradeoff studies or analysis, and if so, of what?

Do any HNers use bug tracking tools to keep track of personal tasks, such as a making an appointment for a MD checkup or needing to get an oil change? If so, which tools do you use?

I'd like to review some source code without staring at a monitor. Does anyone know of a tool that will convert C/C++ source code to EPUB for use in an e-reader?

Macbook Air SSD memory sticks look just like DRAM sticks to me (see link), but they use a different abstraction to access them (SATA vs. DDR). Are the requirements that drove the original use of ATA still applicable…

A year or two ago this startup was all the rage. Does anyone know how it's doing?

Now that I am an engineer, I understand the amount of effort required to complete a project. The downside of this is that the natural curiosity that I had as a kid toward playing with electronics/software projects is…

How many of you actually get to use any of the information you learned in your CS classes in college? E.g., implementing red-black trees, operating systems, writing compilers, etc. From reading this site, I get the…