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New comment by itqwertz in "Florida public universities to pause hiring new H-1B workers"

itqwertz — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:58:36 +0000

>credentials required

There are no credentials required.

>authoritatively say

Experience beats credentials.

>qualified labor pool

No degree required outside of a HR checklist. CS students are not necessarily qualified outside of academia in the real world. H-1B just means you jumped through the hoops of credentialism to be a "qualified" candidate. Many universities require you to have a CS degree to work as an tech employee, so they shut out many qualified candidates. Their loss, and eventual downfall.

>Do you think the deep engineering knowledge and practices to solve hard problems is overrated?

Yes, extremely overrated. The emergence of AI is at least proof that "deep engineering knowledge" can be easily summoned by a prompt. The practices are on their way to automation. The hard work has been done.

New comment by itqwertz in "Florida public universities to pause hiring new H-1B workers"

itqwertz — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:23:38 +0000

A nice relocation package to a sunny climate would be pretty attractive to many qualified U.S. residents in the northern states.

Why are universities not creating a talent pool for their self-sustainment? Many of us have had to suffer through college lectures of dubious real-world application and near-incomprehensible accents. I am not alone when I realized that I could just enter the tech world with self-study, self-promotion, and applying to open positions.

They say, "those who can, do - those who can't, teach", and I believe it. Maybe the real question is: Are universities going the way of the physical newspaper, the personal blog, the dinosaur...?

New comment by itqwertz in "Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there?"

itqwertz — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:41:57 +0000

Take a break for a few months to recalibrate what you want from life. Tech will still be here when you’re ready again. Go travel, use your physical body to walk and hike and lift, have a couple of flings, go to a bar at noon, work a few temp jobs, apply minimalism in your life, learn about something you like, etc.

New comment by itqwertz in "Trump signs executive order to reschedule cannabis from Schedule I to III"

itqwertz — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:51:33 +0000

Terrible CSS on mobile.

New comment by itqwertz in "React vs. Backbone in 2025"

itqwertz — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 15:58:52 +0000

Angular v1 was absolutely the game-changer for sane UI patterns. Although it could choke on large datasets and models were iffy, it allowed us to worry less about the framework and more about the work at hand.

New comment by itqwertz in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

itqwertz — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:15:37 +0000

Did they try asking Claude to fix these issues? If it turns out this problem is AI-related, I'd love to see the AAR.

New comment by itqwertz in "The Socratic Journal Method: A Simple Journaling Method That Works"

itqwertz — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 14:58:37 +0000

Have a baby! You’ll definitely live in the moment when the attention is on another rather than yourself. It’s hard to wax philosophical when you’re trying to keep another human alive.

New comment by itqwertz in "Hungry Hungry Hippos Autoplay (2017)"

itqwertz — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 22:38:38 +0000

Looks great! Now add AI and you’ll be page 1 of HN!!

New comment by itqwertz in "AI not affecting job market much so far, New York Fed says"

itqwertz — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:32:54 +0000

The AI hype seems to be a smokescreen for mass layoffs from the CoVid era. The increased attention on the H-1B visa’s hiring process and labor market impact reveals a far more underreported and significant contributor to job shortages. Also, a lot of these companies have existed way longer than they should have.

Be happy you’re not employed in tech course content creation or something that is directly replaceable TODAY, like language translation or low-level graphic design.

New comment by itqwertz in "ICE obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that hack phones and encrypted apps"

itqwertz — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:42:46 +0000

I suspect Israel does whatever they want under the auspices of national security, gives “private” cybersecurity corporations latitude to circumvent international laws, then packages it all up to sell to the highest bidder.

New comment by itqwertz in "OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations and reporting content to police"

itqwertz — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:19:58 +0000

I’ve had a few conversations with people who use ChatGPT as a therapist. There is real danger of using LLMs that are engineered agree with you, at least in terms of therapy.

New comment by itqwertz in "Jobs.now"

itqwertz — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 01:27:58 +0000

News article: https://www.newsweek.com/h1b-jobs-now-american-workers-green...

Jobs.now

itqwertz — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:59:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jobs.now

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44895659

Points: 8

# Comments: 4

New comment by itqwertz in "The Rise of Vibeinsecurity"

itqwertz — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 18:23:22 +0000

I can only imagine what a vibe coded AWS-backed infrastructure would look like and cost if a developer just trusted it to make good decisions.

New comment by itqwertz in "Two narratives about AI"

itqwertz — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:25:37 +0000

The real benefactors of AI in software development are senior devs who’ve had enough of boilerplate, framework switching, and other tedious low-value tasks. You cut down on the former laborious tradition of picking through StackOverflow for glimmers of hope.

New comment by itqwertz in "DoorDash Offering Payment Plans for Food Delivery Sparks Backlash"

itqwertz — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:33:35 +0000

Payment plans on luxury products are a time-honored tradition in the U.S. I’m not sure how you justify a room temperature hamburger costing that much.

How Fast Does the Jetson Nano Run Large Language Models?

itqwertz — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:45:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jeremymorgan.com/blog/tech/nvidia-jetson-orin-nano-speed-test

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549696

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by itqwertz in "The affordable housing shortage is reshaping parts of rural America"

itqwertz — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:14:58 +0000

Suburbs -> city -> rural is a common life path for folks these days. I suspect a lot of those that make it out to the country are in for a surprise regarding amenities, socialization, and distractions/entertainment. Rural living filters out a lot of friends and family who see a one-way 30-minute drive as too long for a visit. I see that as a good thing :-)

New comment by itqwertz in "Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers"

itqwertz — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:53:22 +0000

There is benefit to being an active participant in your job search. I don't depend on anyone for employment, as self-employment is ALWAYS an option if you're serious about longevity and profit ($$$).

Honestly, the ideal approach if you're going for traditional W-2 steady paycheck employment job is:

- recruiters/people already approach you. This works when you build your network and reputation. - use your network of trusted/worked-with-previously recruiters for leads. - fend for yourself in the murky depths of the scummy internet full of low-life tactics reference farming, resume scraping, and G*d knows else happens when you participate in a public forum.

Real question: did you really want that job or was this just a +1 for your gamified job search? I think quality searches yield quality results.

New comment by itqwertz in "Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers"

itqwertz — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:06:35 +0000

Don’t use LinkedIn or Monster or Indeed. You’re better off searching on Google with “ inurl:careers” and finding positions these companies are directly hiring for.