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In the spirit of the monthly "Who's hiring?" and "Who wants to be hired?" threads... If, in this market, you're no longer expecting to be hired for a tech/programming role, tell us what you're working on on your own,…

Is anyone else experiencing buggy behavior when using the 'hide' feature on front page stories - hide button makes duplicate stories appear at the bottom of the page, and hidden stories come back into the list.

Hi, I imagine it's a common situation for specialist consultants working with startups, who can't quite afford to pay them in cash, to work out alternative payment arrangements. Being paid in stock is one option, but…

What are other large scale disasters we can reasonably anticipate, but are not doing enough to prepare for?

What technologies or research directions are, today, where deep learning (or, less dramatically, cloud or blockchain) was 10 years ago? What are we barely noticing today that will keep us all employed in 2030?

What are some unexpected employers of MCMC engineers/scientists and technologies (Stan, PYMC3, Edward, Anglican, etc.) or other probabilistic programming methods?

Are there resources (video, book, or web) that explain iOS and the Apple ecosystem for a user who's technical but who's lived on other platforms his whole career?

Like many of us software types, I don't know where to go to have physical objects made (in this case, specialty plastic containers with latches/moving parts). Anyone have experience with hiring freelance designers to…

What's a simple choice for someone who's technical in non-web areas but doesn't want to learn CSS and the rest of it, and certainly not about visual design, to make a minimal corporate presence website that looks…

LogMeIn.com is about to end its free service. What's your favorite remote desktop/administration alternative for Windows and/or Mac?

What's the Django world's equivalent of, e.g. Michael Hartl's tutorials and books in the Rails world?

1) Could anyone recommend an up-to-date article/reference on the state of streaming media protocols, servers, and clients - what's going on with DRM, the implications of Apple cutting Flash from the iPad, etc.?…

I'm looking for inspirational songs that capture the entrepreneurial spirit. I'd start with Leonard Cohen's "First we take Manhattan:" They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom For trying to change the system from…

I hear awful things about PHP as a language and have barely touched it, but it looks like I might need to get my hands dirty and learn it in enough detail to make architectural choices that will haunt my team for a…

HN is a security savvy crowd that, I assume, does not like to reuse the same password on multiple sites of dubious security. What software do you use to manage the proliferation of passwords, user id's, and email…

I log in to HN with a Clickpass identity. Whenever I go to http://news.ycombinator.com with a newly started browser (ie no memory cookie, but a file cookie) the title bar shows a random user ID; when I refresh, it shows…

There's some established HTML sanitization solutions like HTML Purifier in PHP, but I can't seem to find their counterparts in either Java or .Net. Code samples in C# and Java are floating around, but I haven't seen…