Hacker News with Generative AI: Tech Industry

Apple's Tim Cook Plans to Join Tech CEOs at Trump's Inauguration (bloomberg.com)
Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook is planning to attend the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump next week, the latest in a wave of Silicon Valley leaders traveling to Washington for the ceremony.
Does the tech industry need so many workers on H-1B visas? (msn.com)
Meta to Cut 5% Workforce (nytimes.com)
Meta plans to lay off up to 5 percent of its employees based on performance ratings, according to an internal memo to workers on Tuesday viewed by The New York Times.
Ask HN: How to work at a bigger tech company? (ycombinator.com)
My career trajectory looks something like this: medium sized publicly traded company, early startup, another startup over the course of about 5 years.<p>I’m pretty tired of the startup scene to be honest and would like to try to work at a larger tech company but I’m having a hard time even getting interviews.<p>I think this is partly because of a bad job market, and partly because I have two no name companies on my resume that I’ve worked for.
Apple asks investors to block proposal to scrap diversity programmes (theguardian.com)
Apple has asked shareholders to vote against a proposal to scrap its diversity, equity and inclusion programmes, as tech rivals scale back similar schemes before Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
After Layoffs, Why Do Tech Firms Still Claim Talent Shortages? (behindhrdoors.com)
Imagine you’re fresh out of college with a computer science degree, hungry for a job, or maybe you’re a seasoned professional, armed with years of experience and glowing references.
Ask HN: How do you personally plan to handle Elon's scam to drive down wages? (ycombinator.com)
Elon has plans to double the number the H1B visas driving down the price of labor.
Ask HN: Moving from an IC Role to Vice President at a young age, any advice? (ycombinator.com)
Long story short, I currently work at a big tech firm (synonymous with a rainforest) on a fast growing cloud product as a solutions architect.
Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy (techcrunch.com)
Apple and Meta are warring in Europe over the balance between interoperability and privacy, Reuters reports.
You Deserve a Tech Union – Together, we can build a better tech industry. (book) (abookapart.com)
There’s a resurgent labor movement in the tech industry. Tech workers—designers, engineers, writers, and many others—have learned that when they stand together, they’re poised to build a better version of the tech industry. They haven’t stopped there: at companies from Kickstarter to Google, workers have formed unions. And you should, too.
Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment? (ycombinator.com)
I am seeing many anecdotal experiences shared online on various platforms stating that it is difficult to find employment in tech.
Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom (arstechnica.com)
Advocates say tech workers movements got too big to ignore in 2024.
Google, Meta, Amazon hire low-paid foreign workers after US layoffs (nypost.com)
Some of the biggest companies in tech including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce have hired foreign workers just weeks after reducing headcount by thousands of employees, according to a report.
Gordon Mah Ung has died (pcworld.com)
PCWorld executive editor Gordon Mah Ung, a tireless journalist we once described as a founding father of hardcore tech journalism, passed away over the weekend after a hard-fought battle with pancreatic cancer.
Sudden Loss of Undocumented Workers Threw Tech Supplier into Upheaval (nytimes.com)
Jabil, a major manufacturer of electronics components for the tech industry, made a startling discovery in the spring of 2021: It had been relying on dozens of undocumented workers, contracted from a staffing agency, to power its manufacturing sites near Silicon Valley.
Jury Finds Discrimination in H-1B Visa Tech Worker Case (govtech.com)
A company that supplies thousands of workers for Silicon Valley’s technology industry and other Bay Area employers intentionally discriminated against non-Indian workers, a jury has found.
What Arm's CEO makes of the Intel debacle (theverge.com)
Arm CEO Rene Haas has a unique, bird’s eye view of the tech industry. His company’s chip designs are in the majority of devices you use on a daily basis, from your smartphone to your car. The SoftBank-backed company he leads is worth almost $150 billion, which is now considerably more than Intel.
Mistakes as a new manager (terriblesoftware.org)
Moving from an Individual Contributor (IC) to a manager is a significant career step. This is especially true in the ever-evolving tech industry. This change brings new challenges and opportunities to learn.
Return To Office mandates and brain drain (ssrn.com)
By tracking over 3 million tech and finance workers' employment histories reported on LinkedIn, we analyze the effect of S&P 500 firms' return-to-office (RTO) mandates on employee turnover and hiring.
Jack Dorsey Explains Bluesky Exit: Repeating All the Mistakes We Made at Twitter (msn.com)
The case against living in the Bay Area, for ambitious tech people (goodtechthings.com)
Here is a tweet that made lots of people mad:
Ask HN: Is there an HN-like forum for woodworking? (ycombinator.com)
I figured I’d ask the main source of woodworkers, former software engineers and tech worker burnouts. I’m looking for a place where I can expand my knowledge and horizons much like here, but for woodcraft and adjacent things.
Please stop the coding challenges (bearblog.dev)
Let’s talk about tech interviews – specifically, the ones that go overboard with unrealistic coding assignments. If you’re a developer who’s been asked to debug legacy PHP or build a mini-app from scratch in just a few hours, you know what I’m talking about. It’s becoming a trend, and it’s not helping anyone.
Microsoft May Have Created an Illegal Monopoly (propublica.org)
In the summer of 2021, President Joe Biden summoned the CEOs of the nation’s biggest tech companies to the White House.
AMD's desktop market share skyrockets amid Intel's Raptor Lake crashing scandal (tomshardware.com)
Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division (theverge.com)
The Mozilla Foundation laid off 30 percent of its workforce and completely eliminated its advocacy and global programs divisions, TechCrunch reports.
That position you just applied for might be a ghost job that'll never be filled (theregister.com)
If you didn't hear back about that great-looking tech position you applied for, it might not be because there were too many applicants scrambling to find a job amid rolling layoffs. There's a distinct possibility the posting was fake to begin with.
My Time Working at Stripe (jondlm.github.io)
I did the thing you’re not supposed to do. I quit my job at Stripe without another lined up.
Ask HN: What do you think would happen if Google and YouTube split? (ycombinator.com)
Technologically speaking, what things would break?
I attended Google's creator conversation event, and it turned into a funeral (giantfreakinrobot.com)
I recently attended a funeral. It was called the Google Web Creator Conversation Event and took place on October 29, 2024, at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.