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_Rabs_on Leading computer science professor says 'everybody' is struggling to get jobs

H-1B's are absolutely exploited. I'd personally testify to the abuses at financial companies. Hearing threats of "If you don't complete this by tomorrow, you can expect to be back in India by next week" From one Indian to another too...

It's awful to witness it. Please don't spread misinformation that "They are not taking abuse or being exploited" That is extremely disingenuous.

_Rabs_on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)

You're right, but I got a few people who did reached out.

But then offered under market rates for senior positions lol...

_Rabs_on Show HN: Job Compass – AI agents that help you find jobs, not replace you

Given the comments already, Dloku, you should probably delete this, and only use it yourself.

Don't pollute the job pool because you want to be empathetic to many struggling applicants.

_Rabs_on Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

Strange your website isn't working on Mullvad's Browser.

On the Guess page it just has a blank screen with the 4 cinematic clips below...

_Rabs_on GitHub Hosting Malware Won't Remove After Report

That's cute considering how many false DMCA takedowns are given on the daily.

You keep living in that fantasy world of yours.

_Rabs_on Web-check: All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website

For reconnaissance stage, absolutely useful.

But yes, mostly surface level details but it's surprisingly nice to see so many niche ones.

_Rabs_on SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud

So much of this. The amount of times I've seen someone complain about slow DB performance when they're trying to connect to it from a different VPC, and bottlenecking themselves to 100Mbits is stupidly high.

Literally depending on where things are in a data center... If you're looking for closely coupled and on a 10G line on the same switch, going to the same server rack. I bet you performance will be so much more consistent.

_Rabs_on SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud

Sure, but it does make me wonder what kind of speeds we are paying for if we can't even get raw hardware speeds...

Sounds like one more excuse for AWS to obfuscate any meaning in their billing structure and take control of the narrative.

How much are they getting away with by virtualization. (Think how banks use your money for loans and stuff)

You actually don't get to really see the internals other than IOPS which doesn't help when it's gatekept already.

_Rabs_on Teach yourself Computer Science functionally

It's a cool write up, but why is this site promoting Triplebyte? Lol what?

_Rabs_on The Only Three Classes That Mattered from My College Degree

The Author feels like something I'd read on /r/LinkedinLunatics.

Is this a parody account designed to get us enraged?

_Rabs_on The Only Three Classes That Mattered from My College Degree

If you are trying to push a bunch of people into this field by saying "these are the only courses you need to know to be able to pass FAANG interviews". What you're describing to me is a failure of interview process itself.

You are not wrong to say this, but you are actually highlighting a more serious problem about this field than you give credit too.

There are many subject matter classes that one should be aware of. The lack of focus on security and good coding practices outside of OWASP Top 10, is startling. I had to specifically opt for those classes because it was not required for the piece of paper that grants you easy entry into a Software Engineering job.