Polls

What do you support re social media and internet regulation?

Things have changed so much over the last year. We now have CLIs, desktop IDEs, and cloud agents all mixing together.Many of us are using more than one agent, but there do not seem to be any great, up-to-date stats on what everyone else is using.What are the primary tool or tools you use throughout most of your work day to write code and automate your work with agents?

Submissions rely on early upvotes to get to the main page, and I was wondering how many people actually visit "newest" to give those submissions a chance.It would be nice to correlate this with people who have "Show Dead" turned on, but this is a start. Polls suffer from selection bias, but it might be interesting.Pick whichever is closest ...

Would you allow the first generation of plumber robots in your home? If yes is there anything you might hide from its view? The robot camera footage could be shared with anyone.

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I am curious how many people customize settings such as initial window size, window scaling, TTL, SACK, MSS, memory allocation, syn retries, synack retries and such.If yes, please describe some of the things you tune, tweak, modify or otherwise adjust if you are willing to share. I won't pick apart the answers, there is no wrong answer. If someone does respond please be polite when asking...

How many people have showdead enabled? I am genuinely curious. If unsure click on your username in the top right and look for the showdead pull-down menu option. Showdead allows people to see [dead] submissions and comments.

Will the SpaceX IPO fail because the valuation of Starlink is dubious, and the merger with Xai is too dilutive? Will OpenAI be able to justify its valuation? For the purposes of the poll, failure means falling below the IPO price before the end of the year, or needing to re-price the IPO downward.

Do you install apps on your phone, refuse to install, use phone for voice and texting, avoid tech when you can do business face to face or just don't use or own a phone? There's no wrong answer.Just curious how generations are evolving.

Will the SpaceX IPO fail because the valuation of Starlink is dubious, and the merger with Xai is too dilutive? Will OpenAI be able to justify its valuation? For the purposes of the poll, failure means falling below the IPO price before the end of the year, or needing to re-price the IPO downward.

Curious what the Hacker News community primarily uses as their daily phone OS.

What percentage of lines of code generated by Claude Code or your coding agent of choice, do you actually manually review in March, 2026, prior to committing?

If you had a button that would immediately start a 20-year AI winter, would you press it?