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New comment by sajithdilshan in "Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape"

sajithdilshan — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:00:47 +0000

I remember reading somewhere that they are planning on using excessive wind/solar energy to generate Hydrogen gas and use that for energy instead of Hydrocarbon gases.

New comment by sajithdilshan in "Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B"

sajithdilshan — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:44:49 +0000

Is there a second wave of AI bubble happening? How can an AI classifier company be worth of $7.5B

New comment by sajithdilshan in "US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work"

sajithdilshan — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:05:53 +0000

That’s what I thought as well. Also, in US one could start work in New York after graduation and if a better job offer comes they can move around the country in different states where as in EU, you graduate and start working in Netherland and assume one learns Dutch, then they are restricted to Netherland in terms of language if they get a job offer in another EU country like Italy or Germany or France, then they would have to learn that languages as well I guess

New comment by sajithdilshan in "US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work"

sajithdilshan — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:12:33 +0000

Maybe that’s true in your close people bubble. Don’t generalise it to every European. I’m pretty sure there a big Trump fans base in Poland, Hungary and Germany to name a few.

New comment by sajithdilshan in "US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work"

sajithdilshan — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:51:36 +0000

How about the language usage at workplace after graduation? Would one have to learn Dutch or still continue everything with English?

Also is it easy to get a job after graduation in Netherlands in STEM field? As an example if someone graduated in medicine (doctor, nurse, etc.) then wouldn’t proficiency in Dutch be mandatory to work?

New comment by sajithdilshan in "US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work"

sajithdilshan — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:37:42 +0000

I don't think this would negatively affect the crème de la crème, they would even have a high demand in US companies especially in STEM fields with higher salaries after finishing the studies.

US is popular for higher studies for students all around the world not only because of the opportunities, but also English being the language for studies. I'm not sure how it works in EU countries. Does Netherland or South Korea offers degree programs completely in English?

New comment by sajithdilshan in "Yes, and"

sajithdilshan — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:11:10 +0000

I think in few years LLMs would be so good that the programming language used by humans to build software would be natural human language. LLMs would abstract out high level programing languages the same way where we don't write assembly code today. Hence, I'm not sure how important it would be to learn programing languages.

However, it's totally make sense to learn theories and concepts behind computer science and engineering like networking, encryption/cryptography, etc. if someone wants to be a software developer in the future.

New comment by sajithdilshan in "Orkut.com"

sajithdilshan — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:02:07 +0000

I think we're past the social media era. I remember using facebook to connect with highschool friends and keep up with them when I was in college. We used to play barn buddy together, update status and used to chat for ages on fb chat. But everything got ruined when fb allowed re-posting and pages which allowed non-personal and unauthentic repetitive stuff to be on top of the feed instead of the updates from my friends, and then came the influencers.

Further, nowadays nobody wants to update the status or share their personal lives on the internet because it's cringy and also again we don't want to go back to the phase where we start to compare our lives with a carefully curated set of photos from other people's profiles because as the age old saying goes comparison is the theft of joy.

New comment by sajithdilshan in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

sajithdilshan — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:59:58 +0000

Shouldn't the company still advertise the role for locals before offering remote? Also, for some roles it's mandatory to have on-site or at least hire within US due to compliance.

New comment by sajithdilshan in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

sajithdilshan — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:39:59 +0000

If that starts to happen I'm pretty sure Trump administration would introduce policies to keep the jobs in US the same way they are trying it for manufacturing jobs.

New comment by sajithdilshan in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

sajithdilshan — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:35:53 +0000

I see it more as a brain drain. I wonder how the world would be if those extremely talented people have stayed in their home countries and contributed to the local economies and development of the respective countries rather than contributing to the American imperialism.

New comment by sajithdilshan in "Ask HN: How to deal with AI "true believer" leadership at work"

sajithdilshan — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:17:16 +0000

Then communicate that clearly and directly to upper level and set the boundaries. It would lead to a conflict, but you can’t run away from that and agree on a compromise.

AI does increase productivity if you use it as a correct tool when needed. Measure the productivity gain/loss over the time and refine approach iteratively.

New comment by sajithdilshan in "Anti-patterns in software blogging"

sajithdilshan — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:36:07 +0000

Totally agree, everything is getting turned into a clickbait. The worst is YouTube videos on educational/technical topics. Instead of getting to the point and explaining the main topic of the video they goes into a rambling of history of how everything started and keep on dragging the video to 20 mins when in reality it should have been max. 5min.

Same goes for some blog posts as well, could have been less than 500 words and instead it’s turned into a novel

Software developers are not okay [video]

sajithdilshan — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:37:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsEpW03gxKg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000239

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by sajithdilshan in "Google Playground"

sajithdilshan — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:00:55 +0000

I would give it max 2 years

New comment by sajithdilshan in "Our digital privacy is being aggressively disbanded this week"

sajithdilshan — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:07:27 +0000

I was gonna suggest maybe disable background app refresh, then realised he’s got a pixel phone.

New comment by sajithdilshan in "Ask HN: What do you think about AI generated slides for conferences?"

sajithdilshan — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:04:08 +0000

I have the opposite experience. I have used single HTML page LLM generated slides for demos/presentations, but they were designed in a manner to tell a story in an easy to understand way with animations and aesthetically pleasing manner. So far I have only gotten positive feedback because for most people it was easy to follow the story I wanted to tell and be engaged rather than staring at a power-point slides.

I guess it heavily depends on how much effort and refinement you put into when creating it regardless if you use an LLM or not. I always ask my self would I fall asleep if someone else presented these slides to me, and if the answer is yes, then I keep on refining it till it meets my standard

New comment by sajithdilshan in "Decisions API is in public beta"

sajithdilshan — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:44:48 +0000

This is one of the most intuitive doc pages I’ve ever seen. The animation and images make it so easy to understand the example use case

New comment by sajithdilshan in "Mistral Large 4"

sajithdilshan — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:42:18 +0000

Absolutely not, the last thing the Europeans need is a monopoly that would turn into a bureaucratic moat. Competition is always good and new startups should get the chance to challenge the ones that cannot compete.

New comment by sajithdilshan in "Mistral Large 4"

sajithdilshan — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:38:55 +0000

If you think about it EU is under pressure from US, China and Russia. At the same time the EU politicians are hellbent on ideological energy policies that made EU extremely vulnerable to price swings. With all that wealth and economic growth EU should have been energy independent ages ago.

At the same time France is ablaze now by younger generation asking for a better future while the public spending is 57% of the GDP in 2025[0] and stuck in a vicious cycle.

Only Germany is holding the fiscal stability by a thread and that's even questionable given the current German government is more like a zombie government that cannot agree on the important reforms and most probably would collapse before the end of this year.

It's completely valid to question how "Sovereignty" helps EU when the complete backend (chips, energy, technology, etc.) is imported from US or China, Middle East and just slapping a Sovereign sticker at the frontend on a mediocre product that even most of the europeans don't want to use given the alternatives.

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/france/government-spending-to-g...