Hacker News with Generative AI: India

IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India (theregister.com)
Following our report last week on IBM's ongoing layoffs, current and former employees got in touch to confirm what many suspected: The US cuts run deeper than reported, and the jobs are heading to India.

Layoffs, Tech Industry, India, United States, Outsourcing

14 points by sleepyguy 5 days ago | 2 comments

How Kerala got rich (aeon.co)
Fifty years ago it was one of India’s poorest states, now it is now one of the richest. How did Kerala do it?

India, Economics, Development, Social Progress

380 points by lordleft 5 days ago | 299 comments

IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India (theregister.com)
Following our report last week on IBM's ongoing layoffs, current and former employees got in touch to confirm what many suspected: The US cuts run deeper than reported, and the jobs are heading to India.

Layoffs, India, Technology, Business, United States

13 points by rntn 6 days ago | 2 comments

From April 1, Indian govt can see your WhatsApp messages, emails (wionews.com)
From the next financial year, which begins on April 1, the tax authorities of India can access your account on communication platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram and emails under the provisions of the Income Tax Bill, 2025.

India, Privacy, Government, Tax, Legislation

21 points by shahriarhus 6 days ago | 1 comments

Indian Programmers Work the Longest Hours (reddit.com)

India, Programming, Work Culture

3 points by thisislife2 6 days ago | 0 comments

India wants backdoors into clouds, email, SaaS, for tax inspectors (theregister.com)
India’s government has proposed giving its tax authorities sweeping powers to access private email systems and applications.

India, Government, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Taxation

9 points by temphnaccount 7 days ago | 0 comments

UK tyres meant for recycling sent to furnaces in India (bbc.com)
Millions of tyres being sent from the UK to India for recycling are actually being "cooked" in makeshift furnaces causing serious health problems and huge environmental damage, the BBC has discovered.

Recycling, Environment, India, UK, Pollution

6 points by NoRagrets 8 days ago | 0 comments

UK tyres meant for recycling sent to furnaces in India (bbc.co.uk)
Millions of tyres being sent from the UK to India for recycling are actually being "cooked" in makeshift furnaces causing serious health problems and huge environmental damage, the BBC has discovered.

Environmental Issues, Recycling, International Trade, India, UK

9 points by sarreph 9 days ago | 0 comments

Indian chemical company employees indicted for Importing of Fentanyl Precursors (justice.gov)
An India-based chemical manufacturing company and three high-level employees were charged in federal court in Washington, D.C., today related to illegally importing precursor chemicals used to make illicit fentanyl.

India, Chemistry, Law Enforcement, Fentanyl, Drugs

17 points by 737min 13 days ago | 0 comments

After 5 Years, FDA Finally Inspected Indian Drug Factory Linked to U.S. Deaths (propublica.org)
The Food and Drug Administration has found problems at an Indian factory that makes generic drugs for American patients, including one medication that was manufactured there and has been linked to at least eight deaths, federal records show.

FDA, Pharmaceuticals, India, Health, Regulation

16 points by ck2 14 days ago | 3 comments

India's Battle to Control the Democracy Narrative (theplankmag.com)
How the Modi government moved from improving its global democracy rankings to redefining democracy itself—turning narrative control into a governance strategy.

India, Politics, Democracy, Governance, International Relations

71 points by ethan_smith 22 days ago | 103 comments

Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels (economist.com)
Thirty years ago Siddharth Dube, a writer, visited a small village in northern India near the site of a historic peasants’ revolt. He found plenty that remained enraging: mud huts, primitive ploughs, “barefoot old men” and “bone-thin children”. One older villager, Ram Dass, recalled the bitter deprivation of his younger years, when he would work long days on someone else’s land for the meagre reward of 1.5kg of grain.

Poverty, India, Economics, Social Change

233 points by suraci 23 days ago | 233 comments

Hit by heatwave, Mumbai is ignoring a quick fix to cool off (scroll.in)
On Saturday, the India Meteorological Department predicted an unusually hot day for Mumbai. The mercury soared to 37 degrees, about 3.4 degree higher than the average temperature for early March. At 3 pm, Suvarna Bandagale sat on a cement block on a footpath to catch some respite from the scorching afternoon heat. As she wiped sweat off her face, she watched pigeons flutter inside the municipality’s empty Diamond Garden in the Chembur neighbourhood. “It is always locked in afternoon,” Bandagale complained.

Weather, India, Climate Change, Urban Planning

15 points by akbarnama 23 days ago | 2 comments

Where are all the self-directed learners? (medium.com)
We received over 2,500 job applications. Fewer than 100 filled a form with open-ended questions. About 15 went on to complete a reasonably simple real-world challenge. We are a nation with the cheapest internet and a billion internet users. Where are all the self-directed learners? The eclectic ekalavyas?

Education, Learning, Talent Acquisition, India

71 points by ChaitanyaSai 25 days ago | 107 comments

Traveling Through India on the Himsagar Express (newyorker.com)
The train car was crammed with people sitting on the lower and upper berths, squatting in the aisles, and crowding the vestibule leading to the toilets, and this might have been the reason that Ganesh Rajwar was sitting in the open doorway, his feet on the metal stairs.

Travel, India, Trains

19 points by Thevet 25 days ago | 1 comments

American Airlines Moves Up to 30% of Its IT to India (viewfromthewing.com)
American Airlines has long had a significant technology deficit. For instance, when they began adding seats to planes and that caused them to board most domestic aircraft 5 minutes earlier, it took a long time before they updated boarding passes to reflect when flights were actually boarding. Word from their IT shop was that they couldn’t get the resources approved to make the updates.

American Airlines, Technology, India, Outsourcing, Airlines

8 points by miles 27 days ago | 1 comments

Trimodal Nature of Tech Compensation in the US, UK and India (pragmaticengineer.com)
Hi – this is Gergely with the monthly, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover challenges at Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. If you’ve been forwarded this email, you can subscribe here.

Compensation, Tech Industry, US, UK, India

7 points by jcartw 29 days ago | 0 comments

India: A billion people have no real money to spend, says report (bbc.com)
India is home to 1.4 billion people but around a billion lack money to spend on any discretionary goods or services, a new report estimates.

India, Economics, Poverty, Consumer Spending

37 points by thunderbong 35 days ago | 45 comments

Siddhartha (wikipedia.org)
Siddhartha: An Indian novel (German: Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung; German: [ziˈdaʁta] ⓘ) is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha.

Novels, Literature, Spirituality, India, Buddhism

50 points by simonebrunozzi 42 days ago | 40 comments

India's Tata Consultancy Was Gaming the US Visa System (bloomberg.com)
New data show how TCS makes heavy use of employment visas reserved for managers. Ex-staffers say it was to get around H-1B rules.

India, Visa System, Employment, Business, Immigration

115 points by jollofricepeas 44 days ago | 59 comments

AWS India allegedly lost all data for one of their client (deccanherald.com)

AWS, Data Loss, Cybersecurity, India

15 points by maxloh 45 days ago | 2 comments

Masters of the Knight: The Art of Chess Carving in India (atlasobscura.com)
In the bustling streets of Amritsar, India, the markets are lined with shops full of colorful tapestries and sweet treats like warm local chai served in clay mugs. But the real treasures are kept behind closed doors.

Chess, Art, India, Culture, Crafts

9 points by bookofjoe 54 days ago | 0 comments

Is Google Maps fatally misleading drivers in India? It's complicated (restofworld.org)
Earlier this week, an Indian politician urged the country’s Parliament to support homegrown alternatives to Google Maps — blaming the popular navigation app for fatal accidents.

Google Maps, India, Transportation, Technology, Safety

7 points by NDAjam 56 days ago | 0 comments

I used Google Gemini Pro to compare party manifestos for an Indian election (github.com/shijithpk)
Collecting code and docs here related to some work on party manifestos for Delhi assembly elections in 2025.

Politics, India, Artificial Intelligence, Elections, Data Analysis

3 points by shijithpk 58 days ago | 8 comments

5 years of maintaining India's largest dev community on the web (bhupesh.me)
I have been part of the r/developersIndia community team since its inception in Jan 2020. A lot has happened since we started this initiative, this post is my personal collection of some learnings as someone behind the scenes along with my failures, community’s successes & some tips for folks thinking to build a community of their own or well for folks who are just interested in what went behind the scenes.

Community Building, India, Software Development, Reddit

7 points by bhupesh 59 days ago | 1 comments

$1M prize offered to decipher 5,300-year-old Indus Valley script (archaeologymag.com)
The government of Tamil Nadu has offered a $1-million reward for anyone who can decode the cryptic script of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), one of the world’s oldest urban cultures.

Archaeology, History, India, Ancient Civilizations, Prizes

30 points by bookofjoe 63 days ago | 1 comments

Gandhi's List of the Seven Social Sins (openculture.com)

Ethics, History, Social Issues, Philosophy, India

6 points by geox 63 days ago | 0 comments

India looks to new economic playbook as risks mount (japantimes.co.jp)
After India achieved world-beating economic growth last year, its policymakers are scrambling to head off a sharp slowdown as worsening global conditions and domestic confidence wipe out a recent stock market rally.

India, Economics, Global Economy, Risk Management

4 points by PaulHoule 64 days ago | 0 comments

Masters of the Knight: The Art of Chess Carving in India (atlasobscura.com)
In the bustling streets of Amritsar, India, the markets are lined with shops full of colorful tapestries and sweet treats like warm local chai served in clay mugs. But the real treasures are kept behind closed doors.

Chess, India, Art, Culture

6 points by Brajeshwar 69 days ago | 0 comments

First all-Indian chips to debut this year, 25 more local designs in the works (theregister.com)
India's ambition to become a semiconductor manufacturing player will bear fruit later this year with the debut of the first silicon designed and built in the nation.

India, Semiconductors, Technology, Manufacturing

5 points by rntn 69 days ago | 0 comments