<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: fredfoobar</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fredfoobar</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:55:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fredfoobar" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfoobar in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wish this was produced in large-scale: <a href="https://www.koenigsegg.com/dark-matter" rel="nofollow">https://www.koenigsegg.com/dark-matter</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:21:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481303</link><dc:creator>fredfoobar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481303</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfoobar in "Building the mouse Logitech won't make"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>+1<p>The mouse has disappeared into my hand and I've forgotten its existence. When I read your post I remembered how pain free my mousing experience has been lately.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:03:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016045</link><dc:creator>fredfoobar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfoobar in "H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think there is a big astroturf campaign that is going on on x, reddit etc. that is rabidly anti-Indian.</p>
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<p>who is contracting to those WITCH companies?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:20:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44893348</link><dc:creator>fredfoobar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44893348</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44893348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fredfoobar in "H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you need some context here, most of the time, these folks have already gone through the PERM process (at least the legitimate ones, ignoring the fraud for a second), and gotten to the next step, but USCIS will reset them back if they switch jobs. If the candidate is from India, they'll probably do this multiple times in their career because the green card wait time is very long for them. I have a colleague who's not from India, and they got through the process and even got their citizenship in 6 years, for Indians, that it'd take 12 years on average to go from finishing the PERM and getting a greencard (let alone applying for citizenship, which would need 3 more years)</p>
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<p>I think you need some context here, most of the time, these folks have already gone through the PERM process (at least the legitimate ones, ignoring the fraud for a second), and gotten to the next step, but USCIS will reset them back if they switch jobs. If the candidate is from India, they'll probably do this multiple times in their career because the green card wait time is very long for them. I have a colleague who's not from India, and they got through the process and even got their citizenship in 6 years, for Indians, it'll take 12 years on average to go from finishing the PERM and getting a green card (let alone applying for citizenship, which would need 3 more years)</p>
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<p>To the poster (nunez?) who was lamenting about me apparently claiming blue collar jobs are easier (and then deleted it when I was writing this reply):<p>1. I didn't claim that.<p>2. Yes, I did say it's "high consequence", but technically, comparing skill to skill, it's MUCH easier. I've done a ton of electrical work (along with plumbing) on our old home, there are a great set of safety rules to follow (and gear to use) before "touching the wrong wire".</p>
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<p>> Soon AI can do your job easily, but it can't do an electrician's job.
[he said gleefully]<p>do you really want an Amercian to lose a job to AI?? Also, why do you think I can't become an electrician after AI apparently "does my job" (or a plumber, I'm a better plumber than an electrician)<p>anyway, it's fine, you don't seem to have any idea about software development or how AI is actually going to help me more.</p>
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<p>That won't work as well as you think it does. This would come off as them being skilled enough to do the work in half the time an American would.<p>That said, consulting companies out of India are horrible, I don't think they'd be more productive even if they worked twice as hard.</p>
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<p>agreed</p>
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<p>I'm sure it's ok to give out specifics of something that happened 12 years ago, what makes you think this sort of stuff is still happening?</p>
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<p>I don't think this is a fair comparison, software development is very complex, but an electricians job isn't, it's very simple but it's high consequence.<p>Software development may seem simple for a lot of people here on HN, but trust me, I can do the electricians job easily, but an electrician won't be able to do my job. The regulatory environment which requires the "apprenticeship" is a totally different topic and doesn't inform anything on the skill required to do the job. Also, the electrician apprentice gets paid while learning on the job, the software developer in training doesn't.</p>
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<p>Fraud should be curbed and punished, but I don't understand why the visa itself is bad because of this, that's like saying people speed and break traffic laws, therefore we must ban vehicles entirely.</p>
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<p>so, you believe that the H1B worker shouldn't get a greencard?</p>
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<p>any update since 2011?</p>
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<p>seems wasteful, I'm trying to understand why, what is the "play" here?</p>
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<p>I think this is true as well.</p>
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<p>Some of these posts make it seem like software engineering is a low skilled job, I beg to differ, it's still a very high skilled job, < .5% of the world knows how to code.</p>
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<p>how does the "employee" survive here by doing whatever they want? what with the cost of living and all.</p>
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<p>Do you have examples of these people who are saving money using H1B?</p>
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