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New comment by mavelikara in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

mavelikara — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:57:33 +0000

> I still remember the people arguing that lightning is just fine and we don't need usb-c. It's true, they existed.

Before that, many of them argued that powerpcs were better than x86. :)

The AI engineering stack we built internally – on the platform we ship

mavelikara — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:04:26 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/internal-ai-engineering-stack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837240

Points: 11

# Comments: 2

New comment by mavelikara in "What we learned building a Rust runtime for TypeScript"

mavelikara — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:33:52 +0000

What is meant by snapshot testing in this context?

New comment by mavelikara in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

mavelikara — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:50:15 +0000

That is an LCA requirement. The company did well to publish this at a place where employees frequent.

New comment by mavelikara in "Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado"

mavelikara — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:45:29 +0000

And Aung San Suu Kyi.

New comment by mavelikara in "UK Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals"

mavelikara — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:17:03 +0000

>Why should that obligation be proportional (or progressively proportional) to the wealth you have and not to the resources you use (or wealth you have in that country).

This is analogous to asking why should software be priced on value delivered, vs priced on costs incurred in producing. Value pricing is much more common.

The value you derive from living in the country of your residence is higher that your poorer neighbors; hence you are charged more.

New comment by mavelikara in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

mavelikara — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:52:00 +0000

> It's something like 50k right now which is ridiculous

It is ridiculous. Do you have a citation for the $50K number?

New comment by mavelikara in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

mavelikara — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:46:19 +0000

Subsequent year, probably. In later years, no. Massachusetts is case study on this.

The Diffusion Dilemma

mavelikara — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 19:03:03 +0000

Article URL: https://arenamag.com/articles/the-diffusion-dilemma

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095591

Points: 29

# Comments: 7

Advanced Context Engineering for Agents [video]

mavelikara — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 18:44:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS_y40zY-hc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45043402

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mavelikara in "FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections"

mavelikara — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:46:43 +0000

More details: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-25-694A1.txt

New comment by mavelikara in "A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it"

mavelikara — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:19:20 +0000

Mods, please consider adding a "[Canonical]" tag to the title. This might save many people a click.

New comment by mavelikara in "Job Listing Site Highlighting H-1B Positions So Americans Can Apply"

mavelikara — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:11:22 +0000

No. They are indefinitely renewable only if a GC application is pending. Otherwise, they expire after two terms i.e. six years.

New comment by mavelikara in "AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive"

mavelikara — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:32:36 +0000

Not the OP, not my code. But here is Mitchel Hashimoto showing his workflow and code in Zig, created with AI agent assistance: https://youtu.be/XyQ4ZTS5dGw

New comment by mavelikara in "Modern Node.js Patterns"

mavelikara — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 06:28:36 +0000

Does the built-in test executor collect and report test coverage?

New comment by mavelikara in "FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime"

mavelikara — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:14:33 +0000

This is the problem with nodding yes to laws that will “only affect the bad people!”. If the law is ineffective, or if the law is effective and they run out of bad people to enforce it on - guess who they are coming after?!

New comment by mavelikara in "Why Are We Pretending AI Is Going to Take All the Jobs?"

mavelikara — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 06:05:34 +0000

> companies are more than willing to have a AI that does X shittier but without a salary, than to hire a guy that does it amazing and pay him a salary.

To understand this better, people should look at their own purchasing behavior. High quality goods are always replaced by "good enough" items that are significantly cheaper. Amazon, Temu, Shien etc are all great examples of those marketplaces.

Also, programers are aware of "The Rise of Worse is Better" paper for 30+ years - the inferior but simpler solution wins, and over time the issues are fixed by lots of people putting lots of work into it.

New comment by mavelikara in "The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust"

mavelikara — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 22:48:56 +0000

The first version of Rust compiler, I think, was written in OCaml.

New comment by mavelikara in "Young graduates are facing an employment crisis"

mavelikara — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:51:44 +0000

Are you Steve Balmer?

New comment by mavelikara in "Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom"

mavelikara — Thu, 15 May 2025 22:21:17 +0000

> This seems like a strange interpretation. If an employee at your company, against policy and likely illegally extracts proprietary data and gives it to hackers in exchange for money you can hardly say that "My company sold it's data".

When an employee ships a new feature, do you say "My company shipped a new feature?"