<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: xbar</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xbar</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:24:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=xbar" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>H1B is a terrible and maximally abused program in its current form.  Adding a $100k fee (which I expect eventually to be found to be not-a-tax and therefore legal) is not a fix, it is merely a revenue stream.<p>It needs a couple things:<p>1. Break current gamification of lottery winners. Probably by requiring a greater diversity in country-of-origin of H1B visas granted annually. Probably involves some kind of % or per country cap.
2. Better wage protection for US workers in the minimum salary requirements. H1B is ostensibly to address skills gaps but is actually an sub-competitive wage scheme.<p>People talk about H1B visas solving certain problems but inevitably the problems it solves is keeping wages low.  For instance, imagine if rural teachers were paid like tech workers or crab fishermen. The draw would pull from across the country. Like tech workers and crab fishermen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:50:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457019</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you found anything that you like?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:15:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377535</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "iPhones Running iOS 26 Are Freezing FaceTime Calls When They Detect Nudity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wasn't looking for your take here, iPhone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 21:19:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300859</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300859</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Linux is the kernel.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 01:25:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273915</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273915</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "ArcBrush – Node-based 2D image editor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have never been in the target audience for such software and I am not intending to change that.<p>However, I love it. Not because I think it executes on its promise perfectly nor that it feels safe to use. I love it because it knows what it hates: Electron; subscriptions; AI-first; single-platform; interpreted software; big, fat, sloppy files.  I hate those things in my end-user applications, too.<p>I hope they figure out how to create enough transparency and trustworthiness to make a sustainable business out of it, because I want to think that such businesses are still possible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 16:44:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249108</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249108</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A favorite quote: "The dubiousness of Altman’s character is [...] priced into his reputation."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 14:27:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236337</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236337</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "The IBM-ification of Google?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Victim-blaming is not appropriate here.<p>Google did not "likely" screw up.<p>To be sure, however, this is a keen lesson for every CTO.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 03:50:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231747</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231747</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice. Now, the Fortune 500, please.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 03:30:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231653</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231653</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "Flipper One – we need your help"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Flipper Zero is great.  I would have built a Flipper 0.1 first, but I see why they are doing this.<p>Flipper One's hardware designs and constraints are very compelling. I would have preferred an additional physical switch to disable all emissions.<p>That said, if they can pull of the initial software stack it will be a strong platform for a broad set of use cases.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 15:42:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224650</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224650</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My opinion is that Google has currently enjoys low trustworthiness as an enterprise software and services provider.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 14:52:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223743</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223743</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I did not know that. I do wish I lived in one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 14:50:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223696</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It does not detail those facts. I gloss over them in my reading of the article because I think the topic is been well covered elsewhere. For example, the Oppenheimer movie did a fair job of depicting the communist party activities among intellectuals in the late 1930s.<p>The fact that those activities led to a thing called McCarthism in the early 1950s is pretty well documented.<p>Imprisoning Qian for 5 years for a meeting in the late 1930s after his contributions to the war effort was very Red Scare consistent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 23:40:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215882</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215882</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Using 3,800 as a direction is an abuse of English.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 23:07:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215567</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215567</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is a good piece on a truly major technology debacle. The title is overblown.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:09:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208109</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208109</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fantastic. Ignore any complainers--what is here is great, and having it nicely collected is hugely valuable.<p>I have long held anxiety that many of these would vanish as certain university archives disappeared. It is nice to see them protected.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 23:49:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201224</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201224</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "No more JetBrains products for me"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had never felt betrayed by JetBrains until that moment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 21:16:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185750</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185750</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>100x engineers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 14:31:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160594</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A focus on security in 2026 is driving code quality improvements in long-lived software. There is a step-function increase in the identification and remediation loop among disciplined engineers.<p>Defining an "era" as a "summer" is short-sighted. Calling an industry-wide efforts to find and fix security vulnerabilities with better tools "strip mining" is backwards thinking, from where I sit.<p>People who prefer 0days in their code baffle me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 14:27:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149070</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149070</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hire ethical people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 01:39:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130135</link><dc:creator>xbar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130135</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xbar in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems like this round of vulns is going to be significant. What is the right response?</p>
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