Different countries.

I'm a bit lost though, I thought in HN many people thought that telecommuting was way to go and there are cool companies such as 37Signals rocking by telecommuting.

Am I missing something? Are those all lies, or do HNers generally love telecommuting because they can slack off as an employee? Or maybe that was only me and pretty much everyone thinks telecommuting is a bad idea.

I wouldn't say they're lies... Telecommuting is great when it works. Here are some ways to help it not work:

1. Fail to create a real working relationship while working. This easily happens when the telecommuting is reaching 100%.

2. Fail to take into account cultural differences. There are big differences in how people can handle poorly defined tasks.

3. Use telecommuting as primarily a way to drive down the prices.

it's kind of split, but a lot of HNers think that telecommuting isn't optimal.

(Personally, I disagree ;)