Hacker News with Generative AI: Tech Industry

It's not a crime if we do it with an app (pluralistic.net)
The core regulatory proposition of the tech industry is "it's not a crime if we do it with an app." It's not an unlicensed taxi if we do it with an app. It's not an illegal hotel room if we do it with an app. It's not an unregistered security if we do it with an app. It's not wage theft if we do it with an app.

Technology, Regulation, Legal Issues, Tech Industry

848 points by keepit 2 days ago | 593 comments

Google won't comply with EU fact-checking law (engadget.com)
Google has told the EU it will not comply with a forthcoming fact-checking law, according to a copy of a letter obtained by Axios.

Google, EU Law, Fact-Checking, Regulations, Tech Industry

13 points by gmays 4 days ago | 7 comments

Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out? (theregister.com)
Opinion Copilot in Microsoft 365 and Apple Intelligence on iDevices are the latest examples of the tech industry's obsession with making services opt-out rather than opt-in.

Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, Tech Industry, Opinion

23 points by rntn 5 days ago | 19 comments

Neveragain.tech (neveragain.tech)
The tech industry's silence this time around is deafening.

Tech Industry, Social Commentary, Silence, Current Events

4 points by Kye 5 days ago | 0 comments

Stripe lays off 300 employees, mostly in product, engineering, and operations (msn.com)

Layoffs, Tech Industry, Stripe, Business, Product Development

9 points by thehrfairplay 6 days ago | 2 comments

CEO of a moderately big tech co replaces Figma with Replit (twitter.com)

Tech Industry, Software, Collaboration Tools

3 points by lopkeny12ko 10 days ago | 2 comments

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.

Apple, Politics, Tech Industry, Business

10 points by cdme 11 days ago | 7 comments

Does the tech industry need so many workers on H-1B visas? (msn.com)

Tech Industry, Immigration, H-1B Visas

46 points by thehrfairplay 12 days ago | 77 comments

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.

Meta, Layoffs, Tech Industry, Business

18 points by darth_avocado 13 days ago | 1 comments

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.

Career Advice, Job Hunting, Tech Industry, Startups

10 points by llmdrinker 14 days ago | 19 comments

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.

Apple, Shareholders, Tech Industry, Politics

33 points by beardyw 15 days ago | 115 comments

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.

Tech Industry, Layoffs, Talent Shortages, Employment

31 points by thehrfairplay 22 days ago | 16 comments

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.

Tech Industry, Employment, Immigration, Salaries, Elon Musk

11 points by mdgrech23 26 days ago | 3 comments

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.

Career Advice, Management, Tech Industry, Leadership

5 points by sfredd 26 days ago | 12 comments

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.

Privacy, Interoperability, Apple, Meta, Tech Industry

154 points by aquir 29 days ago | 157 comments

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.

Tech Industry, Labor Movement, Unions, Workplace Rights

44 points by toogley 29 days ago | 27 comments

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.

Employment, Tech Industry, Job Market

319 points by vbi8iBEX 31 days ago | 587 comments

Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom (arstechnica.com)
Advocates say tech workers movements got too big to ignore in 2024.

Tech Industry, Labor, Artificial Intelligence, Remote Work

25 points by Tomte 31 days ago | 4 comments

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.

Tech Industry, Employment, Labor, Immigration, Outsourcing

10 points by lopkeny12ko 32 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Obituary, Technology Journalism, Tech Industry

161 points by EA-3167 34 days ago | 22 comments

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.

Immigration, Manufacturing, Tech Industry, Labor

14 points by gorbachev 42 days ago | 7 comments

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.

Immigration, Discrimination, Tech Industry, Lawsuits

7 points by DanielleMolloy 46 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Tech Industry, Business, Semiconductors, Arm, Intel

50 points by m463 51 days ago | 56 comments

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.

Management, Career Development, Tech Industry

347 points by Sharpie4679 52 days ago | 148 comments

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.

Workforce, Data Analysis, Tech Industry, Finance

12 points by ssivark 54 days ago | 2 comments

Jack Dorsey Explains Bluesky Exit: Repeating All the Mistakes We Made at Twitter (msn.com)

Social Media, Twitter, Tech Industry, Jack Dorsey

14 points by wannacboatmovie 66 days ago | 3 comments

The case against living in the Bay Area, for ambitious tech people (goodtechthings.com)
Here is a tweet that made lots of people mad:

Tech Industry, Career Advice

8 points by forrestbrazeal 66 days ago | 1 comments

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.

Woodworking, Online Communities, Tech Industry, Hobbies

5 points by ok_dad 71 days ago | 6 comments

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.

Software Engineering, Job Interviews, Tech Industry

261 points by CrazyEmi 74 days ago | 478 comments

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.

Microsoft, Monopolies, Antitrust, Tech Industry, Regulation

24 points by tysone 74 days ago | 6 comments