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"title": "Oracle Files H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs",

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"top": "Wherever their major offices are look for newspapers in the small towns nearby advertising for \"Software developers for Oracle\" all written in the tiniest print, right next to classified that sell used bikes, car parts and other stuff.\n- \"Well, Uncle Sam, we looked so hard in US and nobody answered our job posts, we have to go to ... $othercountry to hire, there is no other way\"",

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"text": "Just to cut through the headline here. The largest chunk of Oracle layoffs were \nin India\n [1]. In comparison, they've barely fired any American workers.\nContrary to popular opinion, IT workers aren't interchangeable and there exist a large swath of jobs that very few people qualify for (HN should know this) because of the specialization required.\nAmerica is at near full employment [2]. Replacing American workers with lower paid foreign workers is already illegal and frequently enforced[3].\nThis is such a deep distraction but a virulent virus of a narrative, surgically designed to needle our reptilian minds.\n[1]: \nhttps://www.goodreturns.in/news/tech-layoffs-2025-oracle-cut...\n[2]: \nhttps://www.statista.com/statistics/269959/employment-in-the...\n[3]: \nhttps://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20180501-2\n, \nhttps://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20180501-2",

"author": "pj_mukh",

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"text": "From your first link, it says 10% of 28k employees in India were cut. I personally know several people who were laid off from Oracle this week (OCI). One person who's still there described it as a \"bloodbath across our division\" and says he counted 15k. I don't know what exactly he was counting but as we're in North America I am assuming they're all here. Whereas India layoffs were fewer than 3k. So that directly disputes your statement that \"they've barely fired any American workers\".",

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"text": "> America is at near full employment\nPretty sure that is the U3 rate which only counts people as unemployed if they are actively looking for a job. The U6 is better and rarely falls below 5%:\nhttps://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/U6RATE",

"author": "janalsncm",

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"text": "I don’t think you can take any numbers coming from this administration seriously, regardless of the institution.",

"author": "mcmcmc",

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"text": "The U6 is also historically low though. America is as fully employed as just about anytime in the past 50 years. Using a different metric may have different raw numbers, but the conclusion is the same.",

"author": "will4274",

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"top": "It's always puzzled me that layoffs don't result in a temporary bar from using the H1B system like it does for filing PERMs with the DoL.",

"author": "QGQBGdeZREunxLe",

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"text": "The H1B has “speciality” categories. You can lay off in one “speciality” while hiring for others. It’s silly but that’s how it’s setup at the moment.\nI agree with you. The category list in H1B needs to be trimmed. So that companies have less wiggle room for things like this.\nThe layoffs were also worldwide. Not sure what the impact to US workers was. India was hit hard.",

"author": "orochimaaru",

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"text": "They should also trigger holds on bunch of other operations, like stock buyouts or sales by people with active or recent relationship to the company",

"author": "p_l",

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"text": "So hire 30k H1Bs first and then fire 30k? Outcome is pretty much the same.",

"author": "fhn",

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"text": "When you are puzzled about something, the first step is to find out why something works like it does. :)\nWith green cards, the government is concerned about permanent residents being dependent on the state if a company ceases to exist or fails to pay salaries or lays people off.\nThis worry is largely not present for limited term work visas.",

"author": "fooker",

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"text": "The US only has two political parties and they are both, secretly, pro immigration.\nThe EU is actually clamping down on it because of populist/far right parties. I know someone who runs a Thai restaurant and he cannot fly in a cook from Asia. He has to find someone from Europe.",

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"top": "What I’m not clear on - how many of these H1B hires are subject to the EO that jacked up the fee to $100k per person? Assuming even just 100 of them were, that’s still ten million USD (assuming I didn’t visualize the zeroes in my head wrong…), and a really large fee to justify to the board if you’re otherwise paying “roughly the same” in salary. Productivity is going to basically break even anyway after a few years.\nThis is why I’m wondering: did the EO get blocked, paused for judicial review or something? Is it even in effect?\nNo intention to make this political, I’m legitimately curious about the status of the law and its actual applicability here. Supposed to be such a steep fine they literally couldn’t afford to do this - not with them already going cash flow negative to build out AI datacenters. So either it’s not applying (why?) or somehow they’re justifying one HUGE fee and somebody is floating them one astronomical loan - which again, why? Where’s the profit in taking that big a risk? Seems absolutely unhinged!\nWe’re missing something here. Or, at least, I am.",

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"text": "Very few, probably. It only applies to consular processing, and only brand new petitions. And that’s ignoring the likelihood that all of this might get struck down by a court (on appeal) at some point given the administration’s propensity for breaking the law. EOs aren’t law on their own.",

"author": "nvgrw",

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"text": "Remember that there was a \"one-time fee\" exception for \"favored clients\" (read: friends of Trump), who could pay a single lump-sum of something like $1 million, and then apply for unlimited H-1B's at the old fee structure.",

"author": "suid",

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"text": "I was not aware of this loophole. Thank you. I’ve got some strong opinions but I’m just going to keep those to myself right now. And my dog. She’ll hear me as I scream profanities into the void…",

"author": "MrWiffles",

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"text": "The loophole does not exist. He's pulling it out of his arse.",

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"text": "There's certainly the 'National Interest Exception' which the President / DHS Secretary can extend to anyone they determine to be deserving of skipping the $100k fee;\nhttps://www.employmentlawworldview.com/update-to-the-new-100...",

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"top": "The title is extremely deceitful. They filed H1Bs for 2025 and 2026, but not after or during the layoffs from last week.\nThat’s like saying “Oracle hires tens of thousands and mass layoffs” (* hired during the pandemic)",

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"text": "> They filed H1Bs for 2025 and 2026, but not after or during the layoffs from last week\nThese kinds of layoffs don't just happen on a whim, certainly aren't \nsupposed\n to. Oracle's business conditions really didn't change that much over the past year.\nIt's perfectly reasonable to retroactively question a company's choice to hire immigrant workers relatively shortly before layoffs.",

"author": "SlinkyOnStairs",

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"text": "The AI world is moving incredibly fast. A lot of SaaS company valuations are down. You can’t honestly say Oracle is operating in the same conditions as last year.",

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"top": "I don't understand why American workers would support this program at this scale. Furthermore, I believe universities and other similar researchy/affiliated non-profits are exempt from the hiring caps.\nI just cannot imagine executives at tech companies/body shops having any positive ethical motivations. More like \"they'll do what we say without complaining or they'll go home\". There's no way it's not just a hugely abusive to both pools of workers. The whole thing really feels like another example of the imbalance between labor and capital in the US.\nWho originally wanted H-1B/etc? Rich people with money and power? Of course!",

"author": "moshegramovsky",

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"text": "Because our government is not run for the workers but the owners. Full stop.",

"author": "dexwiz",

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"text": "To be clear too, this is not capitalism. This is corporatism. Large companies dictating economic companies is anti-innovation. It can only end with disaster and more control/corporatism because lower-productivity workers does not produce higher long-term growth. Temporarily you are able to get your bonus and stock options from the spread between imported and native workers but, eventually, demand and supply stop (and the US reached this point a while ago, which is why central bankers and politicians have had to intervene heavily to keep it going).\nThe end game for corporatism is shown in Europe where you can see a clear gap between countries that are built on non-zero sum systems which are thriving, everything just works...and then other countries which have been heavily corporatist for multiple decades, everything is collapsing, government function is both non-existent in many areas and reaching new highs of intervention into markets. Unfortunately, the Chinese were right.",

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"text": "> Unfortunately, the Chinese were right\nAbout what? Are you familiar with how the life of a Chinese salaryman is going about for the last one year while us in the West are trembling in our shoes about how open weight Chinese models are threatening SOTA frontiers?\n> Large companies dictating economic companies is anti-innovation\nYes but what's the solution? To pass even more regulation against the large companies and make them behave?\n> in Europe where you can see a clear gap between countries that are built on non-zero sum systems which are thriving, everything just works\nSome concrete examples?",

"author": "subhobroto",

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"text": "There are days I think what we need is a slightly bigger font for heavily upvoted comments.",

"author": "iugtmkbdfil834",

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"text": "Owners are a minority of voters, which raises an obvious question: \nwhy does the majority tolerate it?\nEvery serious attempt to answer that ends up admitting something uncomfortable, that democracy only functions as intended if voters are consistently rational and informed. But that assumption doesn’t hold. It \nnever has.\n Even the Athenians put Socrates, father of Western civilization, to death.\nIf society were \nat all\n rational, we'd see a lot more people swing from lampposts.",

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"title": "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm",

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"title": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)",

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"post_text": "Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US)\nor similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is <i>not</i> an option.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no\nrecruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn&#x27;t a household name,\nexplain what your company does.<p>Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed\nto replying to applicants.<p>Commenters: please don&#x27;t reply to job posts to complain about\nsomething. It&#x27;s off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: try <a href=\"https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nthesis.ai&#x2F;public&#x2F;hn-who-is-hiring\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nthesis.ai&#x2F;public&#x2F;hn-who-is-hiring</a>, <a href=\"http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nchelluri.github.io&#x2F;hnjobs&#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nchelluri.github.io&#x2F;hnjobs&#x2F;</a>, <a href=\"https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnjobs.emilburzo.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>,\nor this (unofficial) Chrome extension:\n<a href=\"https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromewebstore.google.com&#x2F;detail&#x2F;hn-hiring-pro&#x2F;mpfaljjblphnlloddaplgicpkinikjlp\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromewebstore.google.com&#x2F;detail&#x2F;hn-hiring-pro&#x2F;mpfal...</a>.<p>Don&#x27;t miss this other fine thread: <i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href=\"https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=47601858\">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=47601858</a>",

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"top": "BioLM | Lead Platform Engineer | San Francisco (or Remote) | Full-time | biolm.ai\nWe're building an AI platform for molecular discovery: think language models for protein and DNA design. Small founding team, moving fast, real ownership.\nLooking for a lead platform engineer to own full-stack development across our Console, Builder, and Solutions apps. You'll ship agentic workflows for molecular design, build integrations with sequence/assay ordering providers, and help shape the technical direction of the platform.\nStack: Python, React, Node.js, AWS, Docker, REST/WebSockets. Bonus if you have experience with agentic systems or MCP. Interest in biology/bioinformatics a plus but not required.\nIf you've shipped production systems end-to-end, have strong product instincts, and want to work on something at the intersection of AI and life sciences - we'd love to hear from you.\nhttps://app.dover.com/apply/BioLM/12435b30-67f1-43c2-8c59-6d...",

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"top": "Oklo | Remote (US) or Santa Clara or Brooklyn | Full time | \nhttps://oklo.com\nJoin us in pioneering the next generation of nuclear reactors! You'll leverage your software skills alongside nuclear engineers to model, simulate, design, and deploy advanced fission power technology. You will work at the forefront of the nuclear industry, developing novel techniques to reach new levels of safety, efficiency, and resiliency. Come be a part of powering the future with advanced fission power plants to provide clean, reliable, affordable energy.\nWe are hiring for:\n- Software Engineer: \nhttps://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oklo/jobs/4018702004\n- Senior Software Engineer: \nhttps://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oklo/jobs/5739483004\n- Software Engineer (Infrastructure): \nhttps://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oklo/jobs/5784826004\n- Software Quality Assurance Lead: \nhttps://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oklo/jobs/5480416004\nSee more opportunities here: \nhttps://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oklo\nPlease mention Hacker News in your cover letter!",

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"text": "There is something up with your hiring system. I shared this post with a friend who applied, and they got an instant rejection. This is a data engineer with 4+ years experience in your stack and a degree in nuclear engineering to boot. Maybe not an ultimate hire but clearly not someone you should be auto-rejecting.",

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"text": "Thank you for flagging this, that definitely shouldn't be happening. Possibly we have an over-zealous spam filter. If you and your friend are open to it, please email me at pca@[company].com and I will personally look into it.",

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"text": "This is a classic example of why generic ATS filters and keyword-based AI fail both candidates and EMs. When the screening process is a black box, you lose high-signal candidates before a human even sees their CV.\nI'm building Taknut (\nhttps://taknut.com\n) specifically to solve this for Engineering Managers. Instead of auto-rejecting, it uses a framework to generate interview guides rooted in the candidate's actual projects. It identifies specific technical proof points (like that nuclear engineering degree + specific stack experience) to help the EM ask deep questions rather than relying on a \"Pass/Fail\" bot.\nIf you're tired of \"over-zealous filters\" killing your pipeline, it might be worth a look to bring the human evaluation back into focus without losing time.",

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"text": "clean drop",

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"text": "What was their citizenship? My guess is there are security clearances involved.",

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"top": "SF or Shenzhen, remote possible for exceptional candidates\nHiring FDEs and various Member of Technical Staff roles\nApply here: \nhttps://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dimensional\nDemos: \nhttps://x.com/stash_pomichter\n--\nDimensional is the agentic operating system for generalist robotics.\nThe team is from MIT, CMU, Cornell, DJI, Figure, and has raised $200M+ for previous projects. Backed by the head of Apple Robotics, CEO of HuggingFace, cofounder of GoogleX, CTO of Windsurf, and more.\nWe launched recently and hit #3 trending on Github. Thousands of developers are now using Dimensional to program physical space.\nWe’re looking for relentless hackers across Software, Infra, Manipulation, Navigation, and LLM/Agents to join us in SF/Shenzhen to power the next generation of agentive robotics.",

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"top": "Against Malaria Foundation | Senior Software Engineer | Remote (UK) | Full Time\nThe AMF works to fight malaria in an extremely cost effective way with insecticide treated bed-nets. Every year hundreds of millions of people will be infected with malaria, and half a million of them will die, with many more being debilitated or disabled. Independent charity evaluators, such as GiveWell, have ranked the AMF as one of the most cost-effective charities in the world for over a decade, due to our long and well-studied track record preventing hundreds of millions of cases of malaria.\nOur tech team is just a couple people, and all-remote. Our software is essential to the charity work we do; it is one of the ways we stand out among other charities, by allowing us to automate, analyze, and validate our work in novel ways. Our tech stack includes C# .NET, Blazor, and Python.\nIf you are a senior SWE in the UK who is interested in making a difference, please reach out to me by email at my first name at againstmalaria.com",

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"top": "Pinehurst, TX | Remote, Onsite, Hybrid\nSenior Systems Architect (Backend / AI-Native / Not a CRUD Role)\nOverview\nWe are looking for a senior systems architect, not a feature developer.\nThis role is for someone who:\n. has designed systems end-to-end \n. understands how to structure complex backend systems \n. can work alongside AI-assisted development (not against it)\nIf your primary strength is writing features or following tickets, this is not the role.\nWhat You Will Be Responsible For\nEvaluating existing systems and identifying what should be: kept, restructured, rebuilt\nDesigning system architecture across: data flow, service boundaries, processing layers\nStructuring systems that involve: multiple data inputs (APIs, documents, etc.), document ingestion and parsing, asynchronous/background processing\nDefining backend patterns for: reliability, scalability, maintainability\nWorking in an environment where AI tools (e.g. Claude, OpenAI Codex) are actively used for execution\nThis is a design-first role, not a ticket-driven role.\nHow to Apply (Required)\nPlease include:\n. A brief description of a system you personally designed end-to-end\n. The hardest architectural decision you made in that system\n. A short explanation of how you currently use AI tools in your workflow\nApplications without this information will not be considered.\nDue to the length of the comments, please visit this doc for full details:\n\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1cCh3gjmq3QYrTKl4qv93QgD1...",

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"text": "Interested! Your checklist maps to work I've done as a first engineer designing systems end-to-end (Kafka async pipelines, PostgreSQL data modeling, Terraform-managed infra on GKE). Happy to send the three required answers. What's the best email to reach you?",

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"text": "Hi, I am interested! Where can I contact you?",

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"id": "47618324",

"title": "Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?",

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"post_text": "I&#x27;ve used https:&#x2F;&#x2F;european-alternatives.eu in the past but I&#x27;ve found it impossible to submit anything there (I&#x27;ve got one submission &quot;Waiting for Review&quot; since July 2025), and I haven&#x27;t really seen updates in categories&#x2F;apps for at least 6 months, which is, at a minimum, strange.<p>I&#x27;ve also reached out to the owner a couple of times (via chat and via email) over the last year and never got a reply.<p>Has anyone else had a similar experience? If so, is there any other kind of listing you look for EU alternatives to US software&#x2F;hardware?<p>Thanks!<p>EDIT: My motivations are my own, this isn&#x27;t supposed to be a political or social commentary of any kind. I happen to prefer to spend money in &quot;local companies&quot; whenever possible, and I&#x27;m in the EU.",

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"title": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)",

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"post_text": "Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:\n Remote:\n Willing to relocate:\n Technologies:\n Résumé&#x2F;CV:\n Email:\n</code></pre>\nPlease only post if you are personally looking for work. Agencies, recruiters, job boards,\nand so on, are off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.<p>There&#x27;s a site for searching these posts at <a href=\"https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wantstobehired.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wantstobehired.com</a>.",

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"title": "Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements",

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"post_text": "This is likely a bit unrealistic, but why can&#x27;t we make a half rack server to go in someones basement that can also heat up their hot water and use the basement floor as a heat sink as well?<p>It seems like a lot of the blight of data centers is the energy to remove the heat. By distributing them into cool basements and even connecting them into the home heating system we could reduce that making them more efficient.",

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"title": "Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?",

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"post_text": "I’ve worked on a project for one year now, a marketplace web application for one of my clients. It involves a web shop frontend, integration with suppliers, payment platforms, product management, stock syncing, and much more. I built the project from scratch with open source components, guided other developers on the project, and was leading all the technical decisions.<p>Last year I started using LLM’s for cumbersome tasks, and since the beginning of this year I started working with Claude Code to implement features. Still, I always need to think about the implementation, and actively direct and correct the bot. As many of you will know, it can speed up development, but I still need to use my more than ten years of experience as a developer. I thought the project for my client would be safe.<p>This changed when they started developing some of their own, much smaller and simpler projects on an AI-powered no-code platform. They immediately concluded this also must be applied to the marketplace project that will run their core business. I tried to convince them with good arguments that this wouldn’t be a good idea, but failed. Since I am not the owner of the code, and don’t want to be a gatekeeper, I instructed them how to participate in the development with their coding agents.<p>The additions they made to the codebase in only a week are huge, around 10,000 lines of code. To be honest, most of the features they introduced are functional, but the performance of the application has suffered already. What I am most concerned about is the maintainability of the project and how we will get this live. Before, I had a clear mental model of how everything was built, and I added human readable documentation where needed. They still want me to participate in the project and work on the most critical parts of the application, DevOps and other parts they and their coding agents will not succeed in themselves.<p>It seems some people are possessed by the promises of AI-tools, and do not have a clear mind anymore.<p>I’ve lost all joy in the project, but from a professional perspective it might be too soon to abandon it completely. I’m curious what I can do in this situation, or what I could have done differently. Are there more people whose work on a project has been taken away by AI bots?",

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"top": "Here's one way to approach this: Imagine you work for a giant company where humans would push 10k lines of code per week. In a codebase like that there's no expectation that you'd understand everything. However, there is an expectation that teams contributing code will \"own\" it.\nSo if the client is contributing you should ask them if they are okay for long term maintenance and fixes of new code they are adding. If not, then maybe you should discuss pricing changes because now you are effectively maintaining code written by them which requires different set of skills and arguably higher cognitive overhead.",

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"text": "Correct. And also hiving off areas that they own, vs you own. Who has decision right and controls the burn down of the kanban board? Basically treat yourself like an API that they consume. You build the good stuff that you know is right. They are responsible for making their crap works right. (Understandably there is some obvious tension around the interfaces.)",

"author": "meetingthrower",

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"text": "Agree. \"Owning\" in this context should mean: understanding the domain, working on new capabilities and handling fallout if anything goes wrong. Whether AI or human ownership transfer this ends with the new owner just handling new work, while the other two remain with previous owner (who might emotionally provide support for it due to attachment of \"I've built it\")",

"author": "eithed",

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"top": "I had a similar experience back when I was a web dev (in the early days of the web's growing popularity) and some clients would cancel a website project because their teen told them they could do it for them much cheaper with DreamWeaver or MS Word.\nSeveral folks here suggest doing \nexactly\n what I did back then, and truth be told, it'll likely work today just as well as it did back then. Tell the customer straight up \nwhy\n it's a bad idea (just be honest and forthright here), and make clear that you'll be charging extra for the \nvery much different\n skill of cleanup and debugging the \"tag soup\" garbage that DreamWeaver (or in this case \"vibe coding\") will produce when it inevitably fails to deliver the result they'd hoped for.\nThen step back and find other work while you wait for the windfall as your prediction plays out \nexactly\n as you warned them it would. If it doesn't, then \"good for them\". Be happy for them that \nthey're\n happy, and be happy for yourself that you found other (less stressful) work. Win-win, either way? Either way, you're working, they're happy with (or at least getting) their hoped-for result, and nobody's stuck with something they didn't really want (other than perhaps your inflated rate for blithely altering the scope of your task).\nFact is that they're paying you for your expertise, and if they choose to ignore that expertise when it really matters, it should cost them to access more \nvaluable\n expertise when it comes time.",

"author": "blooalien",

"replies": []

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"top": "Prepare to make absolute bank on maintenance charges when they can't debug what they built? That's what I'd be thinking!\nThat aside, there's an awful lot of unprofessional comments in this thread. Guys, this is just business: people are paying you money for your talent. Sometimes you just have to wallow in the muck, but at least you're paid to do it.",

"author": "HeyLaughingBoy",

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"text": "This is what I thought, too. Watch them dig a hole for themselves while you take a vacation. And then when they fail to debug the mess, charge them by the day for your expertise, because it’ll be necessary for untangling that mess.",

"author": "fxtentacle",

"depth": 1

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"top": "> Are there more people whose work on a project has been taken away by AI bots?\nOf course, what worked me and what allows me to keep my sanity in my case of project owner coming in and remodeling half of the codebase over the weekend with CC is that I mentally ceded \"ownership\" of the project code, that is, I'm no longer feeling that I'm responsible for what is there and how it is structured. And there are tests.\nApart from that I can say that I empathize with you because I know that initially it feels awful, like loosing some part of agency and also to some degree humiliating when looking that something carefully and meticulously designed is restructured, replaced or thrown away so quickly and carelessly.\nWhat also helps is changing mental model and perceiving oneself as controller who overviews process of \"shaping\" code as whole, in its big mass, to behave in certain way instead of keeping mentally attached to some part of it because \"I designed it\".",

"author": "pxtail",

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"text": ">when looking that something carefully and meticulously designed is restructured, replaced or thrown away so quickly and carelessly.\nThat’s just a trend that has been accelerating for a while now. Make things quick, quality and longevity are qualities of the past. Is better to give a bad solution quickly than having to stop to think.",

"author": "neuralRiot",

"depth": 1

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"top": "\"Are there more people whose work on a project has been taken away by AI bots?\"\nYes. I've had 2 clients do similar to what you described, so I have stopped working with them completely (one of them subsequently deleted their production database).\nAnother agreed for me to do an audit where I found severe vulnerabilities, including anyone having admin access, being able to set their own price during checkout, leaking PII etc.\nAnother is doing an AI in business course and wants to recreate their app using \"N8N and ChatGBT\". Thankfully, they have heeded my warnings - for now.\nI've worked for some of these clients for over a decade, so I have a very low tolerance if they chose not to trust my professional opinion.",

"author": "HyprMusic",

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"id": "47602040",

"title": "Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602040",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "crcsmnky",

"score": 39,

"comment_count": 36,

"created_ts": 1775056572,

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"post_text": "Curious to find those hidden gems that boost productivity or make dev work more efficient. Mired in my own processes and need a change&#x2F;shift. I&#x27;m hoping there&#x27;s still some non-AI stuff out there that&#x27;s delightful to use (in a nerdy sense).",

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"id": "47579221",

"title": "Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579221",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "ex-aws-dude",

"score": 32,

"comment_count": 38,

"created_ts": 1774901946,

"is_internal": true,

"post_text": "I was too young to have experienced the era of BBS so I was curious about a few things<p>1) What was your typical routine for using BBS? How often would you log on and check it? What program would you use?<p>2) How did you even discover servers in the first place when you first started out?<p>3) Were there big popular servers that everyone used or was it fragmented?<p>4) What was the general vibe of discussions like back then? How was it different than now?<p>5) What kind of programming&#x2F;tech things did people discuss? What were the hot topics?",

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"id": "47590261",

"title": "Ask HN: Academic study on AI's impact on software development – want to join?",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47590261",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "research2026",

"score": 30,

"comment_count": 15,

"created_ts": 1774976254,

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"post_text": "Would you like to participate in a study on AI’s impact on software development? We are researchers at New York University and City, University of London conducting an interview study on how new AI tools are changing the work of software developers. We are looking to speak with developers of all seniority levels, including those in leadership roles, who can share their experiences and perspectives on using (or choosing not to use) AI in their day-to-day work.<p>Interviews will last 45 to 60 minutes and take place via Zoom. Participants will be asked about their workflow, AI tool usage, and how their role has evolved over time. All responses will be kept confidential and used for academic research purposes only. Research participants need to be based in the U.S.<p>If interested, please fill out this brief form so that we can contact you: <a href=\"https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyu.qualtrics.com&#x2F;jfe&#x2F;form&#x2F;SV_cHkvoczxgtaLLo2\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyu.qualtrics.com&#x2F;jfe&#x2F;form&#x2F;SV_cHkvoczxgtaLLo2</a><p>Thank you!",

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"top": "I see from other comments that you have IRB approval for this study, but you really should include the IRB protocol identified and/or contact information of the PI here, especially if you've created a separate account just to post this recruitment material.\nWhile it is possible to ask questions about the study here (as others have done), there's actually no way for me to know anything about the study approval except to email this thread link to NYU's IRB and have them figure out what protocol it corresponds to. And so far, the response has just been \"Yes, we have approval, just trust us and send us your contact info.\"\nAssuming that it's possible for non-researchers to use Qualtrics at NYU, there's really no way for me to determine if this is a real research study or someone whose account has been compromised and is running a data harvesting operation. I also don't even know what department this study is associated with (computer science, business, sociology, etc), which I suspect would influence people's interest in participating.\nIn any case, I'd recommend providing some more information up front, even if your IRB didn't require it.",

"author": "nearting",

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"text": "Totally valid question. We need to adhere, however, to the permission we received to post our study on a public forum. PI contact information is included in the Informed Consent document along with other information to help potential participants decide if they consent to participate in the study.",

"author": "research2026",

"depth": 1

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"top": "Will you in exchange publish the results/dataset for free?",

"author": "idrissbellil",

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"text": "Happy to share the final peer-reviewed publication with research participants.",

"author": "research2026",

"depth": 1

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"top": "How would this self-selecting study be representative? It will be swarmed by paid AI shills.\nThe anti-AI people are already weary by having to contradict the $trillion industry, so they might skip this particular battlefield.",

"author": "Hasg1",

"replies": [

{

"text": "HN is only one of our recruitment channels. We are definitely aiming for a balance of perspectives.",

"author": "research2026",

"depth": 1

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"top": "do I get a starbucks giftcard or anything?",

"author": "roguechimpanzee",

"replies": [

{

"text": "Thanks for asking! We're unable to offer compensation, but the insights you share will directly contribute to social scientific knowledge about AI’s impact on professional work and careers. Software engineering is at the forefront of this change and objective, academic research on the topic is still scarce. So we really appreciate everyone who volunteers their time to share their experiences and views on the topic.",

"author": "research2026",

"depth": 1

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"text": "I'm surprised your human research ethics board doesn't require you to indicate the benefit to participants\nDid you get ethics approval for this? I can't see any reference to it on the survey",

"author": "kibibu",

"depth": 2

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"text": "I understand your concern, and thanks for asking for this clarification.\nWe have IRB ethics approval from NYU for the study. All the detailed information you are looking for is contained in the 'Research Informed Consent Form' that will be emailed to eligible research participants. After reviewing the informed consent form, you can choose to proceed or not with scheduling an interview. And of course, you can at any time withdraw your participation.\nThe link in the post is just a simple contact form giving us permission to contact potential participants and assess their eligibility (i.e. whether they are based in the US, whether they are software devs etc). And, if we hopefully get more responses than we need, the brief information contained in this form will help us sample participants based on company size or professional experience level.\nYou will see in the 'Informed Consent Form' that there are no direct benefits to participation. The study will contribute to social scientific knowledge about technology’s impact on professional work and careers. I hope this helps!",

"author": "research2026",

"depth": 3

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"text": "this is the right question to ask",

"author": "saadn92",

"depth": 1

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},

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"top": "Thank you just completed the form",

"author": "grossiweb",

"replies": [

{

"text": "Thank you!",

"author": "research2026",

"depth": 1

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"id": "47615145",

"title": "Stripe closed my UAE business account and is withholding $3.5K",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615145",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "alganzory",

"score": 22,

"comment_count": 4,

"created_ts": 1775140774,

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"post_text": "I can&#x27;t believe this\nAfter a very tedious process to get my business account fully verified, I was finally happy to be able to use stripe services but alas..<p>I invoiced a client for some software service, about 6 or 7 invoices, after they paid them, stripe decided that my account was high risk and suspended it, even after asking for a review, they didn&#x27;t change their mind and said the transactions will be refunded<p>They refunded all of the invoices but one worth $3.5k or so. I tried to contact their support but got no response, so I sent a complaint through their complains form, they responded with the following: \n&quot;Summary:\nYou have contacted Stripe to express your concern regarding the closure of your account.<p>Details of our review:\nWe reviewed your account further, and we’ve determined that we still won’t be able to support [company name] moving forward. The closure of your account is in accordance with Stripe&#x27;s Services Agreement: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;ae&#x2F;legal&#x2F;ssa#termination<p>Note that, in general, refunds on eligible card payments are issued within 5 days of the date of the account rejection. After the 5-day period, we will not be refunding additional charges. If a balance still remains in your account after all reversals have been processed, it will not be made available to you, in accordance with the Service Terms for Stripe Payments.<p>We know that this is disappointing news, and we&#x27;re sorry that there&#x27;s nothing more we can do.&quot;<p>--<p>What can I do? My business is registered in the UAE",

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},

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"id": "47580841",

"title": "Ask HN: Does anyone else notice that gas runs out faster than usual",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580841",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "cat-turner",

"score": 20,

"comment_count": 31,

"created_ts": 1774912181,

"is_internal": true,

"post_text": "- gas smells less like gas\n- not getting as much mileage as usual<p>I filled up my car and I have a habit of resetting my mileage tracker (next to odometer) to see how many miles I get out of a full tank.<p>I&#x27;ve noticed that I get much less gas than usual for the same number of bars.<p>What can I do to make this more concrete? Has anyone else noticed this?",

"is_ask_hn": true,

"matched_keywords": [],

"comments": []

},

{

"id": "47601190",

"title": "Are tech companies even hiring?",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601190",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "KernelPryanic",

"score": 19,

"comment_count": 18,

"created_ts": 1775052807,

"is_internal": true,

"post_text": "I&#x27;m Backend &#x2F; DevOps engineer with 12 years of official professional experience. Have been looking for a job for about half a year. Went through about 15-20 interviews, passed ALL technical ones. But in the end I hear almost the same things all the time: &quot;we really liked your technical expertise, but there was no personal fit with the team&quot;, &quot;we appreciate deep knowledge you have, but decided to proceed with another candidate&quot;, etc.\nAre tech companies even hiring right now or most of them have just dummy openings for internal procedures&#x2F;investor reports? Anybody with the same&#x2F;different experience?\nP.S. I&#x27;m based in the Netherlands, picture in France looks the same.",

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"id": "47633568",

"title": "Anthropic to limit Using third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633568",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "guiyuwei",

"score": 15,

"comment_count": 3,

"created_ts": 1775258038,

"is_internal": true,

"post_text": "Starting April 4 at 12pm PT &#x2F; 8pm BST, you’ll no longer be able to use your Claude subscription limits for third-party harnesses including OpenClaw. Instead, they’ll require extra usage.<p>Your subscription usage still covers all Claude products, including Claude Code and Claude Cowork. To keep using third-party harnesses with your Claude plan, enable extra usage for your account. This will be enforced April 4 starting with OpenClaw, but this policy applies to all third-party harnesses and will be rolled out to more shortly (read more).<p>To make the transition easier, we’re offering a one-time credit for extra usage equal to $200 on your Team plan. Redeem your credit by April 17. We’re also introducing discounts when you pre-purchase bundles of extra usage (up to 30%) for your team.<p>We’ve been working to manage demand across the board, but these tools put an outsized strain on our systems. Capacity is a resource we manage carefully and we need to prioritize our customers using our core products. We appreciate your support as we make these changes.",

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"top": "I feel they should leave an opening for claws that use the Claude code sdk (like nanoclaw) because they will still operate on behalf of the main user. The same rate limits can apply as for CC, so why not?\nOr even let us maybe use haiku only with claws?\nBut if this becomes a hassle, I won’t mind giving my $200/month to OpenAI instead.\nCuz for whatever reason, they seem to have way higher quotas even in the $20 plan.\nTime for nanoclaw to add an adapter to work with other SDKs.",

"author": "atonse",

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},

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"top": "Discussion (655 points, 1 month ago, 793 comments) \nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069299",

"author": "gnabgib",

"replies": [

{

"text": "More recent \nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633396",

"author": "sathyabhat",

"depth": 1

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]

}

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},

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"id": "47578918",

"title": "Are you team MCP or team CLI?",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578918",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "sharath39",

"score": 15,

"comment_count": 19,

"created_ts": 1774900338,

"is_internal": true,

"post_text": "Bonus point is you say why.",

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"top": "Both- depending on the work. CLI for anything local and deterministic: code tools, builds, git, file ops. The agent already knows how to exec commands and parse output, and when something breaks you get stderr and an exit code. MCP for discovery and remote services where the agent needs to figure out what's available.\nThey solve different problems, but imo MCP has a speed overhead problem that cli tools don’t usually have - so my preference is CLI.",

"author": "1broseidon",

"replies": []

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"top": "To me it depends on the intended use:\n- MCP - if you need discoverability. a great example for this is something like context7\n- CLI/API + Skill: When you have a defined workflow you want to use. For me a good example of this is using the Linear GraphQL API instead of their MCP\nI prefer the Linear API because, where I work, we have come up with our way of using the tool so I don't need the entire MCP to do what I need the agent to do. I think for most use cases an MCP is a waste of context.",

"author": "trcarney",

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"top": "Team \neveryone should have APIs\n that I can get to with or without LLMs.",

"author": "blitzar",

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"text": "So, neither?",

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"top": "I think CLI should be the default where supported. i.e. the AI has already been trained on Supabase, Heroku, AWS.\nFor everything else, MCP.",

"author": "muzani",

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"top": "Team CLI. I generally think we should build tools that are usable by humans and agents alike. An anti-pattern is having to use an agent to do something because you didn't build a human-accessible one. Another anti-pattern are MCP (Model Context Protocol) interfaces that are not managing any context.\nThat said, MCP could be an effective way to sandbox what an agent can do with a tool. Also, it seems plausible to me that a tool that actually provided information to a model via the MCP protocol could be more useful than a CLI tool which operates in the \"silence means success\" mode of most unix CLI tools.\nBasically, make a design choice for _reasons_ and not just because you like that TLA of the option you picked.",

"author": "nickm12",

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"id": "47601577",

"title": "BetterDB – open-source Redis/Valkey migration across clouds and self-hosted",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601577",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "kaliades",

"score": 14,

"comment_count": 7,

"created_ts": 1775054291,

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"post_text": "I built this after a year at Redis as an engineering manager for their developer tools, watching the ecosystem fragment after the license change.<p>Redis 7.4 broke data file compatibility with Valkey. RIOT, the only widely-used open migration tool, was archived last October with no open replacement. And the clouds - AWS, GCP, Redis Cloud - have no incentive to make leaving easy. If you want to move between providers, switch protocols, or get off managed infrastructure entirely, you&#x27;re on your own.<p>BetterDB ships a three-phase workflow to fix that:<p>Analysis - scans your keyspace and flags blocking incompatibilities before anything moves. Green&#x2F;amber&#x2F;red verdict.<p>Execution - RedisShake for same-protocol speed, or command-based for cross-version and cross-protocol migrations where binary transfer fails.<p>Validation - key count comparison, sample spot-check, and performance baseline comparison against pre-migration snapshots.<p>Any direction. Any provider. Standalone or cluster.<p>docker run -p 3000:3000 betterdb&#x2F;monitor<p>Website: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;betterdb.com\nRepo: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BetterDB-inc&#x2F;monitor\nDocs: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.betterdb.com",

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"id": "47591829",

"title": "Ask HN: Is there any founder building non AI startup in 2026?",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591829",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "daudmalik06",

"score": 13,

"comment_count": 9,

"created_ts": 1774983288,

"is_internal": true,

"post_text": "Ask HN: Is there any founder building non AI startup in 2026 ?<p>Just curious to know what other founders are building around and what are current challenges.",

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"id": "47616250",

"title": "Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616250",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "break_the_bank",

"score": 12,

"comment_count": 25,

"created_ts": 1775145660,

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"post_text": "Curious what HackerNews users are using right now. Mapping my IDE usage since 2022<p>Goland (2022-2024)-&gt; Cursor(November 2024 to February 2026) -&gt; Claude Code (&amp; VSCode or Cursor for manual edits)<p>The Claude Code setup is interesting, I use the terminal or GitHub for diffs. I do open an editor to do manual edits, especially when I am doing something new( that the LLM hasn&#x27;t been trained on) or debugging something.<p>Potential improvements<p>Stripe Projects ( creating API keys from CLI) as something that I have wanted in the past as with LLMs sometimes with a project the slowest part seems to be deployment &#x2F; bringing all the keys. I also don&#x27;t enjoy the fact that I can&#x27;t push a job to the web when I am leaving work. Worktrees aren&#x27;t fun as I can&#x27;t run the services on different ports that easily for testing, further managing different TMUXs is painful. I am curious what tools people here are using, also what do people do while the LLM generates.",

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"comments": []

},

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"id": "47605347",

"title": "Ask HN: What happens when you block/mark as spam a call or text?",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605347",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "dsalzman",

"score": 12,

"comment_count": 3,

"created_ts": 1775071422,

"is_internal": true,

"post_text": "I’ve been getting more and more spam calls and texts. I always try to block and mark as spam but the same “people” just call back from other numbers offering business loans. “Anthony Schmidt” is a prolific dialerbot.<p>What is happening on the backend here and why can this not be fixed?",

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