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Re:New $100k H-1B visa fee pushes tech jobs offshore on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:53AM (#49697945)
Been pretty much my exact experience
The circular financing of AI spend isn't exactly a new story. Pretty sure even Altman has publicly said it's bubble
roughly 10% of their corporate workforce wow
Re:Ask HN: Is the Ask HN algorithm broken? on Thursday July 17, 2025 @02:28PM (#44596494)
Mods have a way of boosting posts to refresh them back into the algorithm hence why you see some posts weeks ago showing back up
Re:Google apparently backs off on WEI on Thursday November 02, 2023 @03:40PM (#38118904)
Repo has be archived - "NOTE: This proposal is no longer pursued."

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity

Re:Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber? on Friday October 14, 2022 @11:38PM (#33211503)
Apparently this[0] is a possible way of opting out by phone but can't speak to it personally as I haven't tried it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27703091#27705428

>A candidate who was caught lip syncing to someone talking in the room behind them

For those who haven't seen this before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47mfohGyeBg

Re:Ask HN: Is Bay Area in a tipping point for tech talent? on Thursday January 13, 2022 @12:44PM (#29923919)
>As long as California does, and most other places allow them, we're going to continue to see surprisingly high levels of startup formation and company success in California, despite all the bad things being true.

If that were truly the case wouldn't a number of other states also be banning non-completes in hopes of attracting businesses? Some quick googling shows only the District of Columbia, North Dakota, and Oklahoma have similar bans on non-competes as California.

Re:How South Korean TV took over the world on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @10:47AM (#29796014)
>"And yet, most young men in the country argue that it is men, not women, in South Korea who feel threatened and marginalized. Among South Korean men in their 20s, nearly 79 percent said they were victims of serious gender discrimination, according to a poll in May."

Not really an excuse but it's worth pointing out that South Korea has conscription which women are exempt from

Re:An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020) on Sunday January 02, 2022 @11:28PM (#29777337)
>If you've seen the question/answer before just say so!

In reality no one will do this though. There is way to much of an incentive on the candidate side to lie and work through as if they haven't seen it before.

>It seems like the model is to have a slick UI and hire contractors from India with second rate English skills handle the grunt work

Seems more and more common unfortunately

Re:Ask HN: How were video games from the 90s so efficient? on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:08AM (#29128102)
YT link doesn't work
>every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework.

Felt like that with articles about Rust as well

Re:No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (2019) on Saturday September 11, 2021 @02:30PM (#28494492)
It's even more frustrating when it some programming related blog and you can't copy and paste the code snippet
Re:A serious critique of Genshin Impact [video] on Sunday August 15, 2021 @12:06PM (#28189862)
It's a free game that heavily revolves around buying lootboxes to unlock characters/items and is known as a gacha game[0] They are often intentionally designed to make it really difficult to experience the full game without being forced to spend real money on lootboxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacha_game

Re:Reddit raises $410M in new funding on Thursday August 12, 2021 @04:43PM (#28161190)
>Or is there something intrinsic to Reddit traffic that makes it difficult to monetize?

Reddit is also home to an enormous amount of porn and nsfw content in general which probably hurts this. They only just started preventing sexually explicit subreddits/content from appearing on r/all six months ago[0]

https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/lhnvok/removing_...

Re:Restaurant workers quit at record rate on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @12:07PM (#27895547)
Except it literally does?

>Cornett, off work for a few weeks, realized he received enough money through unemployment benefits to start saving — for the first time. He wondered if the work he loves would ever entail a job that came with health insurance or paid leave. "I was working what I decided was going to be my last kitchen job," Cornett said.

Re:Tiny Acquisitions on Thursday June 24, 2021 @06:57PM (#27624994)
>5k sounds like an incredibly small amount of money. The equivalent of a week's salary in the US.

It's almost comedic how out of touch this comment is. Reminds me of this[0]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_Qyk9DSUw

Was gonna say I feel like I've seen this posted on HN a few times now
Re:The political case for a blanket cryptocurrency ban on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @01:07PM (#26649889)
>It's easy to steal.

>It only takes one 0-day wipe you out, irreversibly, and completely. My bank could get hacked, but we, as a society, can just decide that I still have the assets I had before, the paper stocks and coupons are in a drawer somewhere. The loan contracts are in a filing cabinet (or they should be). I get my bank statements every month. There's some cash and some gold in a vault. A breach is, at least theoretically, reversible. That's not true with bitcoin.

Isn't this more just an argument that cryptocurrency's are just riskier because unlike tradition financial institutions/investments they are unregulated and lack protections such as insurance etc. Maybe I am just getting caught up in semantics but a 0-day wiping out the value of Bitcoin/Crypto with no vehicle in place to restore that value to its owners if something were to happen just makes it extremely risky/highly speculative investment not necessarily easy to steal

Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @12:09PM (#26413505)
The link is to a post on a Facebook group. The contents of the post has nothing to do with Facebook the company...
Except it's even worse for crypto because many tokens don't nearly have the same liquidity as traditional stocks so market manipulation is even easier with crypto.