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"id": "47631732",

"title": "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs",

"link": "https://nationaltoday.com/us/tx/austin/news/2026/04/03/oracle-files-thousands-of-h-1b-visa-petitions-amid-mass-layoffs/",

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"top": "Wherever their major offices are look for newspapers in the small towns nearby advertising for \"Software developers for Oracle\" all written in the tiniest print, right next to classified that sell used bikes, car parts and other stuff.\n- \"Well, Uncle Sam, we looked so hard in US and nobody answered our job posts, we have to go to ... $othercountry to hire, there is no other way\"",

"author": "rdtsc",

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"text": "Just to cut through the headline here. The largest chunk of Oracle layoffs were \nin India\n [1]. In comparison, they've barely fired any American workers.\nContrary to popular opinion, IT workers aren't interchangeable and there exist a large swath of jobs that very few people qualify for (HN should know this) because of the specialization required.\nAmerica is at near full employment [2]. Replacing American workers with lower paid foreign workers is already illegal and frequently enforced[3].\nThis is such a deep distraction but a virulent virus of a narrative, surgically designed to needle our reptilian minds.\n[1]: \nhttps://www.goodreturns.in/news/tech-layoffs-2025-oracle-cut...\n[2]: \nhttps://www.statista.com/statistics/269959/employment-in-the...\n[3]: \nhttps://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20180501-2\n, \nhttps://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20180501-2",

"author": "pj_mukh",

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"text": "From your first link, it says 10% of 28k employees in India were cut. I personally know several people who were laid off from Oracle this week (OCI). One person who's still there described it as a \"bloodbath across our division\" and says he counted 15k. I don't know what exactly he was counting but as we're in North America I am assuming they're all here. Whereas India layoffs were fewer than 3k. So that directly disputes your statement that \"they've barely fired any American workers\".",

"author": "saulpw",

"depth": 2

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"text": "Can confirm. Friend laid off on team of 15, that team is now down to 7. They built datacenters, too. US based. That's, sorta concerning since I thought their entire future bag was making datacenters......",

"author": "VonGuard",

"depth": 3

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"text": "> The largest chunk of Oracle layoffs were in India [1]. In comparison, they've barely fired any American workers.\nWhy dont you address your blatant lie here instead of going on cringy pie tangent?",

"author": "dominotw",

"depth": 4

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"text": "> America is at near full employment\nPretty sure that is the U3 rate which only counts people as unemployed if they are actively looking for a job. The U6 is better and rarely falls below 5%:\nhttps://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/U6RATE",

"author": "janalsncm",

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"top": "It's always puzzled me that layoffs don't result in a temporary bar from using the H1B system like it does for filing PERMs with the DoL.",

"author": "QGQBGdeZREunxLe",

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"text": "The H1B has “speciality” categories. You can lay off in one “speciality” while hiring for others. It’s silly but that’s how it’s setup at the moment.\nI agree with you. The category list in H1B needs to be trimmed. So that companies have less wiggle room for things like this.\nThe layoffs were also worldwide. Not sure what the impact to US workers was. India was hit hard.",

"author": "orochimaaru",

"depth": 1

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"text": "They should also trigger holds on bunch of other operations, like stock buyouts or sales by people with active or recent relationship to the company",

"author": "p_l",

"depth": 1

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{

"text": "Employees should not be able to sell their stock if their company decides to do layoffs? What is the rationale?",

"author": "thebytefairy",

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"text": "Because if there's stock-based renumeration, it's 100% certain it applies and probably is considerable portion of renumeration of those deciding on layoffs.\nHonestly, I'd preferably make it so that stock movement is frozen for a time \nexcept for laid off\n employees",

"author": "p_l",

"depth": 3

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"text": "So hire 30k H1Bs first and then fire 30k? Outcome is pretty much the same.",

"author": "fhn",

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"top": "What I’m not clear on - how many of these H1B hires are subject to the EO that jacked up the fee to $100k per person? Assuming even just 100 of them were, that’s still ten million USD (assuming I didn’t visualize the zeroes in my head wrong…), and a really large fee to justify to the board if you’re otherwise paying “roughly the same” in salary. Productivity is going to basically break even anyway after a few years.\nThis is why I’m wondering: did the EO get blocked, paused for judicial review or something? Is it even in effect?\nNo intention to make this political, I’m legitimately curious about the status of the law and its actual applicability here. Supposed to be such a steep fine they literally couldn’t afford to do this - not with them already going cash flow negative to build out AI datacenters. So either it’s not applying (why?) or somehow they’re justifying one HUGE fee and somebody is floating them one astronomical loan - which again, why? Where’s the profit in taking that big a risk? Seems absolutely unhinged!\nWe’re missing something here. Or, at least, I am.",

"author": "MrWiffles",

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"text": "Very few, probably. It only applies to consular processing, and only brand new petitions. And that’s ignoring the likelihood that all of this might get struck down by a court (on appeal) at some point given the administration’s propensity for breaking the law. EOs aren’t law on their own.",

"author": "nvgrw",

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"text": "IIRC the legislation had a stipulation where the DHS head could wave the fee.",

"author": "duxup",

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"text": "The fee only applies for consular processing, i.e., people outside the country.\nThere are a bunch of people in the country as students in US universities with an F visa. If they get a job, the employer can apply for an h1b, and the fee doesn't apply to them because they aren't getting a visa, they are changing status (might sound like potato/potata, but the difference exists and applies).",

"author": "Izikiel43",

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"text": "Remember that there was a \"one-time fee\" exception for \"favored clients\" (read: friends of Trump), who could pay a single lump-sum of something like $1 million, and then apply for unlimited H-1B's at the old fee structure.",

"author": "suid",

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"text": "I was not aware of this loophole. Thank you. I’ve got some strong opinions but I’m just going to keep those to myself right now. And my dog. She’ll hear me as I scream profanities into the void…",

"author": "MrWiffles",

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"top": "The title is extremely deceitful. They filed H1Bs for 2025 and 2026, but not after or during the layoffs from last week.\nThat’s like saying “Oracle hires tens of thousands and mass layoffs” (* hired during the pandemic)",

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"text": "> They filed H1Bs for 2025 and 2026, but not after or during the layoffs from last week\nThese kinds of layoffs don't just happen on a whim, certainly aren't \nsupposed\n to. Oracle's business conditions really didn't change that much over the past year.\nIt's perfectly reasonable to retroactively question a company's choice to hire immigrant workers relatively shortly before layoffs.",

"author": "SlinkyOnStairs",

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"text": "The AI world is moving incredibly fast. A lot of SaaS company valuations are down. You can’t honestly say Oracle is operating in the same conditions as last year.",

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"top": "I don't understand why American workers would support this program at this scale. Furthermore, I believe universities and other similar researchy/affiliated non-profits are exempt from the hiring caps.\nI just cannot imagine executives at tech companies/body shops having any positive ethical motivations. More like \"they'll do what we say without complaining or they'll go home\". There's no way it's not just a hugely abusive to both pools of workers. The whole thing really feels like another example of the imbalance between labor and capital in the US.\nWho originally wanted H-1B/etc? Rich people with money and power? Of course!",

"author": "moshegramovsky",

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"text": "Because our government is not run for the workers but the owners. Full stop.",

"author": "dexwiz",

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"text": "To be clear too, this is not capitalism. This is corporatism. Large companies dictating economic companies is anti-innovation. It can only end with disaster and more control/corporatism because lower-productivity workers does not produce higher long-term growth. Temporarily you are able to get your bonus and stock options from the spread between imported and native workers but, eventually, demand and supply stop (and the US reached this point a while ago, which is why central bankers and politicians have had to intervene heavily to keep it going).\nThe end game for corporatism is shown in Europe where you can see a clear gap between countries that are built on non-zero sum systems which are thriving, everything just works...and then other countries which have been heavily corporatist for multiple decades, everything is collapsing, government function is both non-existent in many areas and reaching new highs of intervention into markets. Unfortunately, the Chinese were right.",

"author": "skippyboxedhero",

"depth": 2

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"text": "> Unfortunately, the Chinese were right\nAbout what? Are you familiar with how the life of a Chinese salaryman is going about for the last one year while us in the West are trembling in our shoes about how open weight Chinese models are threatening SOTA frontiers?\n> Large companies dictating economic companies is anti-innovation\nYes but what's the solution? To pass even more regulation against the large companies and make them behave?\n> in Europe where you can see a clear gap between countries that are built on non-zero sum systems which are thriving, everything just works\nSome concrete examples?",

"author": "subhobroto",

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"text": "The Chinese were right about democracy being fundamentally corrupt.\nTo remove all regulation. Using economic policy to achieve social outcomes is insanity. Even the most free markets ultra would never suggest this, and you have people who are slightly to the left of communist suggesting this...it is worth asking why.\nSwitzerland and Italy. Two countries that are next to each other, very different story. Slovakia and Germany, adjacent (can't really use Austria because that is somewhere in the middle atm). At a high level, Eastern and Western Europe. Eastern Europe is thriving, Western Europe is struggling to decide whether to arrest people for committing crimes.",

"author": "skippyboxedhero",

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"text": "There are days I think what we need is a slightly bigger font for heavily upvoted comments.",

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"title": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)",

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"post_text": "Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US)\nor similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is <i>not</i> an option.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no\nrecruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn&#x27;t a household name,\nexplain what your company does.<p>Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed\nto replying to applicants.<p>Commenters: please don&#x27;t reply to job posts to complain about\nsomething. It&#x27;s off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: try <a href=\"https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nthesis.ai&#x2F;public&#x2F;hn-who-is-hiring\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nthesis.ai&#x2F;public&#x2F;hn-who-is-hiring</a>, <a href=\"http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nchelluri.github.io&#x2F;hnjobs&#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nchelluri.github.io&#x2F;hnjobs&#x2F;</a>, <a href=\"https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnjobs.emilburzo.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>,\nor this (unofficial) Chrome extension:\n<a href=\"https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromewebstore.google.com&#x2F;detail&#x2F;hn-hiring-pro&#x2F;mpfaljjblphnlloddaplgicpkinikjlp\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromewebstore.google.com&#x2F;detail&#x2F;hn-hiring-pro&#x2F;mpfal...</a>.<p>Don&#x27;t miss this other fine thread: <i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href=\"https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=47601858\">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=47601858</a>",

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"id": "47618324",

"title": "Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618324",

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"author": "BrunoBernardino",

"score": 103,

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"post_text": "I&#x27;ve used https:&#x2F;&#x2F;european-alternatives.eu in the past but I&#x27;ve found it impossible to submit anything there (I&#x27;ve got one submission &quot;Waiting for Review&quot; since July 2025), and I haven&#x27;t really seen updates in categories&#x2F;apps for at least 6 months, which is, at a minimum, strange.<p>I&#x27;ve also reached out to the owner a couple of times (via chat and via email) over the last year and never got a reply.<p>Has anyone else had a similar experience? If so, is there any other kind of listing you look for EU alternatives to US software&#x2F;hardware?<p>Thanks!<p>EDIT: My motivations are my own, this isn&#x27;t supposed to be a political or social commentary of any kind. I happen to prefer to spend money in &quot;local companies&quot; whenever possible, and I&#x27;m in the EU.",

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"top": "Switching software [0] which has a repository on Codeberg [1] and an account on the fediverse [2]. It is not focused directly on EU alternatives, but:\n> switching.software is a grassroots website, that is trying to let people know about ethical and easy-to-use alternatives to well-known websites, apps and other software. It is specifically aimed at a non-technical audience.\n[0] \nhttps://switching.software/\n[1] \nhttps://codeberg.org/swiso/website\n[2] \nhttps://fedifreu.de/@switchingsoftware",

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"text": "Thanks! I've known about them and have used them to filter and find software, but as you mentioned, it doesn't focus on EU alternatives, so it's a bit more work when I'm focused on that, but they've definitely been useful in the past to me!",

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"top": "https://euro-stack.com/\n (which I'm personally managing myself), among others.",

"author": "fermigier",

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"text": "Wow, this looks really good at a glance and I will take a good look later, thanks!\nEDIT: After a deeper look, I found some issues, like there are a lot of seemingly duplicate categories, (AWS [1] and Amazon Web Services [2]), but with different sets of results, which could be solved with normalisation, but then there are many \"alternatives\" shown that aren't EU-based, but OSS, like Gatsby [3] or NocoDB [4] and I'm not sure what to think. I think that's acceptable, but for OSS there are other lists I'd look into instead of a website/listing like this.\n[1]: \nhttps://euro-stack.com/alternatives/aws\n[2]: \nhttps://euro-stack.com/alternatives/amazon-web-services-aws\n[3]: \nhttps://euro-stack.com/solutions/gatsby\n[4]: \nhttps://euro-stack.com/solutions/nocodb",

"author": "BrunoBernardino",

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"text": "This is really nice, I appreciate anyone who will give more info out about it, I like the categories too, maybe some more tags would be nice for specifics but it's good. I also like you host in the EU too. I've seen some doing similar that were hosted in the AWS US region.",

"author": "bilekas",

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"text": "Nice!",

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"top": "I had this website in my bookmarks \nhttps://www.goeuropean.org/\n, but I'm not sure if it's up to date. If that helps...",

"author": "valentinconan",

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"text": "Thanks, didn't know about it, will look into it!",

"author": "BrunoBernardino",

"depth": 1

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"top": "I generally just search around.\nBtw: if you are interested in this, note that it often isn’t clear cut where a company is from.\nFor example: \nhttps://european-alternatives.eu/product/zitadel\n bills itself as a swiss company, and it might technically be one, but it looks very much like a general SF startup to me (business address in sf, all investors are US based)",

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"text": "Zitadel CEO here :-)\nZitadel started in Switzerland under the name CAOS AG and has still a lot of its operations in Europe. For our US go to market strategy we incorporated Zitadel Inc. which operates out of SF where I also tend to be.\nHappy to share more if interested",

"author": "ffo",

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"text": "Thanks for the clarification! Does the AG still exist?\nAnd I think this speaks to my point that it isn’t a simple yes/no question :)",

"author": "jauco",

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"text": "It absolutly does \nhttps://zefix.ch/en/search/entity/list/firm/1391256\n :-)\nThe matter is definitely more complex than yes and no... my general stand has been that jurisdiction matters a lot when you store and process data from customers, like many cloud services do. iIt matters less if you can take a software and self-host it.",

"author": "ffo",

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"text": "Pitty that it only operates on Gcloud. Makes it not European",

"author": "touwer",

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"text": "I hear you! Right now that is a constraint even if we have regions in EU and Switzerland.\nYou can easy deploy Zitadel to Hetzner though ;-)",

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"top": "https://www.eucloudcost.com/providers/",

"author": "sbkg0002",

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"text": "While it's limited to cloud (AWS-related) providers, TIL about this, thanks!",

"author": "BrunoBernardino",

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"title": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)",

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"post_text": "Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:\n Remote:\n Willing to relocate:\n Technologies:\n Résumé&#x2F;CV:\n Email:\n</code></pre>\nPlease only post if you are personally looking for work. Agencies, recruiters, job boards,\nand so on, are off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.<p>There&#x27;s a site for searching these posts at <a href=\"https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wantstobehired.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wantstobehired.com</a>.",

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"id": "47640431",

"title": "What life looks like on the most remote inhabited island",

"link": "https://apps.npr.org/life-on-tristan-da-cunha/",

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"id": "47587597",

"title": "Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587597",

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"author": "cmos",

"score": 73,

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"post_text": "This is likely a bit unrealistic, but why can&#x27;t we make a half rack server to go in someones basement that can also heat up their hot water and use the basement floor as a heat sink as well?<p>It seems like a lot of the blight of data centers is the energy to remove the heat. By distributing them into cool basements and even connecting them into the home heating system we could reduce that making them more efficient.",

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"title": "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings",

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"id": "47633676",

"title": "Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans",

"link": "https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14246053-extra-usage-credit-for-pro-max-and-team-plans",

"domain": "support.claude.com",

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"top": "The only listed qualification is \"You’ve subscribed to a Pro, Max, or Team plan by April 3, 2026 at 9 AM PT\", however I am not getting the banner for this credit. I suspect that there's an unstated additional qualification: that your account hasn't previously received an extra usage credit.\nI don't know if they should be handing out more credits right now considering that my Sonnet requests in Claude Code are routinely delayed by several minutes, presumably due to capacity issues...",

"author": "modeless",

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"text": "I previously received one and was able to activate this one too. I agree it seems like there's more to this, just wanted to add another anecdote to further confuse things. :)",

"author": "mh-",

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"text": "I'm not seeing the usage credit banner either. Didn't manage to claim it.\n> I suspect that there's an unstated additional qualification: that your account hasn't previously received an extra usage credit.\nMy account has never received any credit. I subscribed to Pro only a few weeks ago.",

"author": "matheusmoreira",

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"text": "I was able to claim the bonus usage today. It just randomly appeared.",

"author": "matheusmoreira",

"depth": 2

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"text": "> I suspect that there's an unstated additional qualification: that your account hasn't previously received an extra usage credit.\nI received extra usage credit in February, and I got the email today asking me to claim this extra credit. Managed to claim this one too.",

"author": "weikju",

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"text": "Dunno, maybe there is a bug. I was both a subscriber, and had the extra usage enabled, and paid for extra usage before, and didn't get the extra credits. I am on the max plan, so was rather looking forward to the extra $100 to burn on /fast mode.",

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"top": "TBH, it looks to me as a trick to enable extra usage by baiting me with $20 credit by toggling on the feature that lets me burn another $20 without realizing it.\nToggling it again to turn it off immediately after (which I assume most people will miss) seems to guard against this.",

"author": "2bluesc",

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"text": "That's not the purpose of the trick. The purpose is to soften the blow for turning off support for OpenClaw and other third party connectors. Now to use OpenClaw et all you'll have to pay at extra usage pricing, it won't count against your normal quota.\nI'd actually be happy with this if they turned OpenCode support \nback on\n.",

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"text": "Auto-reload is off by default, is it not?\nAs in, what you're toggling on is \"use my extra usage balance\" not \"automatically spend money by adding to my extra usage balance\".",

"author": "furyofantares",

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"text": "I read it as they'll invoice me up to $20. Not sure?",

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"text": "I don't believe so. I'll explain how I think it works.\n [x] Turn on extra usage to keep using Claude if you hit a limit.\n\n\n^^^ This toggles whether it will automatically spend from your pre-paid balance when you hit limits.\n $20\n Monthly spend limit\n\n\n^^^ I'm not actually sure which this toggles, but I think it is either a maximum amount to reload per month, OR I think it is a maximum amount of your balance to spend per month. I think it's how much to auto-reload but it is a confusing setting.\n Auto-reload off\n\n\n^^^ This toggles whether it auto-reloads. It accepts a trigger balance and how much to top it off to. This setting shows the following text, which is\n You agree that Anthropic will charge the card you have on file in the amount above on a recurring basis whenever your balance reaches the amount indicated. To cancel, turn off auto-reload.",

"author": "furyofantares",

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"text": "Yes it works exactly like that. Beware",

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"top": "I can “buy extra usage” for “up to 30% off” right now, but no free credits to be claimed on profile dashboard at the moment.",

"author": "j_bum",

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"text": "Update 13hr later: I was able to claim my credit.",

"author": "j_bum",

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"text": "Did you have extra usage enabled before checking? Mine was disabled and I received the $20 credit.",

"author": "2bluesc",

"depth": 1

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"text": "Yes, I did have it enabled. Though the terms say you \"must have it enabled\", not \"must not have had it enabled\". Perhaps there is a roll-out difference.",

"author": "j_bum",

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"text": "Well this feels scammy, or at least annoying AF. I tried toggling it on to see if that would make the credit appear, even though I'd never had it on before and never needed to use it, and since my balance was under $5, it auto-charged me $15. All I wanted to do was try to make the free $20 banner appear, and I didn't get that either.",

"author": "smeej",

"depth": 3

},

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"text": "It got extra fun. I tried to talk to the Fin AI and it closed the chat twice without even responding. It just told me I'd have to try again.\nFin isn't half as useful as Claude, and if that's not telling, I don't know what would be.",

"author": "smeej",

"depth": 4

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"top": "That's a nice gesture after they seemingly changed the rate at which my credits were being used to like less than half of what I was getting a week ago. But I'm getting tired of all of this changing all the time.",

"author": "jsLavaGoat",

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{

"text": "You mean this?\nhttps://support.claude.com/en/articles/14063676-claude-march...",

"author": "weird-eye-issue",

"depth": 1

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"text": "No, I think they mean:\n- \nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s7mkn3/psa_claud...\n- \nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s7zgj0/comment/o...",

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"text": "Pretty sure I was hit by that caching bug because there was a few hours where I immediately hit my session limit and then shortly after I hit it again all while the system wasn't even working because of downtime, likely due to the increased token usage...\nBut I think it only lasted for a short period of time.",

"author": "weird-eye-issue",

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"top": "I feel this is a payoff to alleviate the complaints of people who already paid for the month and they restricted usage after the fact. Not impressed.",

"author": "daft_pink",

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"id": "47639303",

"title": "Show HN: I made open source, zero power PCB hackathon badges",

"link": "https://github.com/KaiPereira/Overglade-Badges",

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"post_text": "I love getting cool swag from hackathons and I also love designing PCB&#x27;s, so when my friend asked me if I would design hackathon badges for a large game jam in singapore, I was absolutely down!<p>The theme of overglade was a &quot;The game jam within a game&quot;, pretty cool concept right! High schoolers from around the world were flown out to the event by hackclub after they spent about 70 hours designing their own game.<p>These badges needed to be really cheap and simple, because we were going to manufacture about a hundred in a pretty limited amount of time. I went with a zero-power approach, which means sticking with e-inks, and I decided to include NFC if the organizers wanted to introduce it into the roleplay of the event, and so participants could add their website or github if they so choose!<p>I used an RP2040-based architecture because it&#x27;s really easy and cheap to get on the first try, and then added an ST25 passive NFC tag which was really simple to configure. The badge is in the shape of a ticket, because you got a &quot;ticket&quot; to the event after spending a lot of time designing games to qualify! 20 GPIO&#x27;s are broken out onto the edges if you&#x27;re ever in a pinch at a hackathon, and I wanted the badges to feel really fun so there&#x27;s a lot of art designed by various people in the community!<p>The badge worked really well and I learned quite a lot in the process. My takeaways are to manufacture a BUNCH of extra badges, because some will end up breaking; to think about your PCB in 3D, because one of the inductors was a bit tall and caused more badges to break; and to have a strong vision of your final product, because it really helped me to create something unique and beautiful :D<p>I like to journal about all my projects, so if you&#x27;d like to read my full design process, feel free to take a look at my journal (<a href=\"https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;KaiPereira&#x2F;Overglade-Badges&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;JOURNAL.md\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;KaiPereira&#x2F;Overglade-Badges&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;J...</a>). If you also have any questions or feedback, I&#x27;d be happy to answer them!",

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"top": "That's very cool.\nI have a few ePaper picture frames that don't use any power, and when you tap your phone to them it uses the power-over-NFC to boot itself and update the photo you send to it. It's such a cool idea and something I always felt like could be used more for displays that don't need to update very often.",

"author": "sen",

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"top": "Very cool! Quick question: did you use a plugin to generate the NFC antenna?\nThe routing and layout looks nice. The end result is great! I bet it was satisfying to get it working on the first try.",

"author": "bschwindHN",

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"text": "I used \nhttps://eds.st.com/antenna/#/\n to get an antenna that fit with a target inductance of 4.7uH and then used \nhttps://github.com/nideri/nfc_antenna_generator\n to create the footprint which I slightly modified for the board! You can read a bit more about it in the journal (JOURNAL.md)!\nIt was really satisfying to get everything working (especially the NFC because I've found RF to be a bit tricky), but the eink logic was actually a bit of gamble, because I broke my only eink while prototyping so the production batch was the first test of the driver. So always carry spare components when designing prototypes!",

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"top": "How much did they end up costing? We do a similar PCB medallion every year for another event and haven't been able to get quite that fancy due to cost. We usually only manage to get some LEDs and a processor in our lower budget range.",

"author": "robertclaus",

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"text": "The total ended up being about $10/badge for 60 (5 for badge, 5 for eink), and we made the mistake of not ordering enough, so we ordered a couple more that were about $1 more expensive each. We bought all the badges from JLC and the prod files are in the repo if you want to see how much they come to in higher order quantity!",

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"top": "how does \"zero-power\" work exactly? all power from NFC?",

"author": "NooneAtAll3",

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"text": "So the eink holds its state once it’s programmed so you do need an initial program of the badge through USB-C, and then the NFC uses passive RF harvesting.",

"author": "kaipereira",

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"text": "yes NFC and with an e-ink display no battery needed from there",

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"id": "47602040",

"title": "Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602040",

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"author": "crcsmnky",

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"post_text": "Curious to find those hidden gems that boost productivity or make dev work more efficient. Mired in my own processes and need a change&#x2F;shift. I&#x27;m hoping there&#x27;s still some non-AI stuff out there that&#x27;s delightful to use (in a nerdy sense).",

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"id": "47644566",

"title": "Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself (2024)",

"link": "https://jxnl.co/writing/2024/06/01/advice-to-young-people/",

"domain": "jxnl.co",

"author": "mooreds",

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"top": "> How to Get a Job\nIdk about this, I have gotten almost every job I have ever had on cold-apply, including internships. The only one that wasn't that way was talking to a (internal) recruiter in college.\nDon't discount that path. I did not have the best grades or anything, but (IMO) a mix of skills that was a good fit for the job at hand and confidence I could apply them.\nMost of the people you will interact with in the (corporate) world have no understanding of their own understanding, and are operating in unknown unknown territory. Being confident, demonstrating competence in something jointly known/unknown or known/known helps a ton.",

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"text": "And I am exactly the opposite - aside from my first job out of university 10 years ago I have gotten every job since through connections",

"author": "rvrs",

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"text": "That's where the author is, and it's fine. IMO, these people tend to be better represented online, because getting a job through connections/influence/visibility is necessarily going to be louder than clicking submit on a form.",

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"top": "I like the old parts of this piece.\nSeems like the new additions are all about money as the goal. Oh well.",

"author": "joshoink",

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},

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"top": "Popular twice in 2024\n(148 points, 72 comments) \nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38902596\n(155 points, 62 comments) \nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39926081",

"author": "gnabgib",

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"top": "My interpretation of the newspaper image-counting experiment is quite different from that of the author.\nMy view is that unlucky people don't trust the system (for a good reason) so they don't trust the text; given the nature of the experiment, it is reasonable that they would think the text is a trap to mislead them. It actually mirrors reality perfectly because most people are constantly misled about everything... But a few lucky 'chosen' people are not. In terms of the experiment it would be like showing unlucky people text which shows an incorrect number and the lucky people would see text showing the correct number. That's what's actually happening in real life.\nWhat lucky people don't understand is that merely surviving, without receiving special treatment, is actually very difficult and it requires constantly jumping over all sorts of hurdles and deceptions and you can't afford trust third-party information because every time you did, you ended up losing everything or wasting years of your life. Lucky people are wrong to trust third-party information. They only learn how wrong they were when they stop receiving special treatment; then reality comes as a shock!\nWhat is shown to the majority is what the media wants to show them. The media's purpose is to mislead people. Only a small handful of people are actually lucky enough to have mentors who will tell them \"The media is misleading, I know because I influence the media; here is reality: ...\"",

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"text": "Fair to say unlucky people are skeptical/pessimistic/realistic and lucky people are naive/optimistic?\nIf yes, the question is why? What came first? Their luck or their perspective? Maybe a couple instances of things working out tips the scales early in life!",

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"text": "I'm pretty sure the luck came first because optimism/pessimism is a learned trait.\nI say this as someone who considers themselves \"Optimistic by nature, pessimistic by experience.\"\nI was born in lucky circumstances but that luck turned in my teens due to factors outside of my control. I have seen firsthand how it works.\nEven now, I constantly have to catch myself and force myself to think pessimistically... And my pessimistic projections are usually right or sometimes not pessimistic enough.\nBut I know I'm a natural optimist by the fact that I don't give up. I've built so much software and startups over the years; most of them I'm still running on the side and keeping up to date even though I know consciously that there is zero chance they will succeed. Deep down I have a deep optimism that something will change and all the opportunities will come at once. Consciously, I know it is delusional but I'm fundamentally motivated by emotions, not thoughts.\nIt's a weird feeling having built products that work very similarly to (or better than) other products which rake in millions of dollars but not being able to find a single customer due to all sorts of weird contrived socio-political reasons.",

"author": "jongjong",

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"top": "I'm sorry to hate but it's extremely rich to write\n> Do not send me anything longer than you would send to a crush. Some people email me six-paragraph essays about the time they saved a cat from a tree\n...in a rambling piece that is not written with much consideration for the reader. I know this is just a blog post, ostensibly written for the author's younger sister, but if the author really wishes to position himself as someone to take advice from, he should make some effort to make his ideas digestible. I would suggest he include some transitions between ideas, bother to do some research to back up his claims instead of e.g. referring vaguely to an experiment he heard of supposedly involving \"lucky\" and \"unlucky\" people (truly sounds like science).\nAnd for the love of God don't tell me right off the bat that you assume I'm going to keep reading, let alone read closely enough to \"notice\" anything about your writing. Yuck\nFinally, while I know it's popular in Silicon Valley/coastal tech types to use the language of agency to justify being an uncharitable dick to people around you, the spirit of this particular stanza is helpful to deploy only in a small number of settings, generally low complexity environments where the stakes are low and there's a lack of psychological safety, and you desperately need the paycheck.\nIn any event the good ideas here are largely betrayed by the author's bad writing and overgeneralizing his experience working in coastal tech. Do yourself a favor and find other role models",

"author": "vector_spaces",

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"text": ">... if the author really wishes to position himself as someone to take advice from...\n>... the good ideas here are largely betrayed by the author's bad writing and overgeneralizing...\nThe author clearly doesn't want to be someone most people take advice from, and admitted that the piece wouldn't be well written, lack nuance, and largely were just things that worked for them, not anybody else. I don't know how one could possibly take this so seriously when they make it very clear up front:\n>I'm not really qualified to give advice.\n>Don't read this if you are seeking a nuanced perspective.\n>These are simply the lies I tell myself to keep on living my life in good faith. I'm not saying this is the right way to do things. I'm just saying this is how I did things. I will do my best to color my advice with my own experiences, but I'm not going to pretend that the suffering and the privilege I've experienced is universal.",

"author": "jjulius",

"depth": 1

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"id": "47622670",

"title": "EmDash Feedback",

"link": "https://ma.tt/2026/04/emdash-feedback/",

"domain": "ma.tt",

"author": "batuhanicoz",

"score": 40,

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"id": "47579221",

"title": "Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579221",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "ex-aws-dude",

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"post_text": "I was too young to have experienced the era of BBS so I was curious about a few things<p>1) What was your typical routine for using BBS? How often would you log on and check it? What program would you use?<p>2) How did you even discover servers in the first place when you first started out?<p>3) Were there big popular servers that everyone used or was it fragmented?<p>4) What was the general vibe of discussions like back then? How was it different than now?<p>5) What kind of programming&#x2F;tech things did people discuss? What were the hot topics?",

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"id": "47590261",

"title": "Ask HN: Academic study on AI's impact on software development – want to join?",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47590261",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "research2026",

"score": 31,

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"post_text": "Would you like to participate in a study on AI’s impact on software development? We are researchers at New York University and City, University of London conducting an interview study on how new AI tools are changing the work of software developers. We are looking to speak with developers of all seniority levels, including those in leadership roles, who can share their experiences and perspectives on using (or choosing not to use) AI in their day-to-day work.<p>Interviews will last 45 to 60 minutes and take place via Zoom. Participants will be asked about their workflow, AI tool usage, and how their role has evolved over time. All responses will be kept confidential and used for academic research purposes only. Research participants need to be based in the U.S.<p>If interested, please fill out this brief form so that we can contact you: <a href=\"https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyu.qualtrics.com&#x2F;jfe&#x2F;form&#x2F;SV_cHkvoczxgtaLLo2\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyu.qualtrics.com&#x2F;jfe&#x2F;form&#x2F;SV_cHkvoczxgtaLLo2</a><p>Thank you!",

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"id": "47615145",

"title": "Stripe closed my UAE business account and is withholding $3.5K",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615145",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "alganzory",

"score": 25,

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"post_text": "I can&#x27;t believe this\nAfter a very tedious process to get my business account fully verified, I was finally happy to be able to use stripe services but alas..<p>I invoiced a client for some software service, about 6 or 7 invoices, after they paid them, stripe decided that my account was high risk and suspended it, even after asking for a review, they didn&#x27;t change their mind and said the transactions will be refunded<p>They refunded all of the invoices but one worth $3.5k or so. I tried to contact their support but got no response, so I sent a complaint through their complains form, they responded with the following: \n&quot;Summary:\nYou have contacted Stripe to express your concern regarding the closure of your account.<p>Details of our review:\nWe reviewed your account further, and we’ve determined that we still won’t be able to support [company name] moving forward. The closure of your account is in accordance with Stripe&#x27;s Services Agreement: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;ae&#x2F;legal&#x2F;ssa#termination<p>Note that, in general, refunds on eligible card payments are issued within 5 days of the date of the account rejection. After the 5-day period, we will not be refunding additional charges. If a balance still remains in your account after all reversals have been processed, it will not be made available to you, in accordance with the Service Terms for Stripe Payments.<p>We know that this is disappointing news, and we&#x27;re sorry that there&#x27;s nothing more we can do.&quot;<p>--<p>What can I do? My business is registered in the UAE",

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"id": "47580841",

"title": "Ask HN: Does anyone else notice that gas runs out faster than usual",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580841",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "cat-turner",

"score": 21,

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"created_ts": 1774912181,

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"post_text": "- gas smells less like gas\n- not getting as much mileage as usual<p>I filled up my car and I have a habit of resetting my mileage tracker (next to odometer) to see how many miles I get out of a full tank.<p>I&#x27;ve noticed that I get much less gas than usual for the same number of bars.<p>What can I do to make this more concrete? Has anyone else noticed this?",

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"id": "47601190",

"title": "Are tech companies even hiring?",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601190",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "KernelPryanic",

"score": 20,

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"post_text": "I&#x27;m Backend &#x2F; DevOps engineer with 12 years of official professional experience. Have been looking for a job for about half a year. Went through about 15-20 interviews, passed ALL technical ones. But in the end I hear almost the same things all the time: &quot;we really liked your technical expertise, but there was no personal fit with the team&quot;, &quot;we appreciate deep knowledge you have, but decided to proceed with another candidate&quot;, etc.\nAre tech companies even hiring right now or most of them have just dummy openings for internal procedures&#x2F;investor reports? Anybody with the same&#x2F;different experience?\nP.S. I&#x27;m based in the Netherlands, picture in France looks the same.",

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"id": "47633568",

"title": "Anthropic to limit Using third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633568",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "guiyuwei",

"score": 17,

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"post_text": "Starting April 4 at 12pm PT &#x2F; 8pm BST, you’ll no longer be able to use your Claude subscription limits for third-party harnesses including OpenClaw. Instead, they’ll require extra usage.<p>Your subscription usage still covers all Claude products, including Claude Code and Claude Cowork. To keep using third-party harnesses with your Claude plan, enable extra usage for your account. This will be enforced April 4 starting with OpenClaw, but this policy applies to all third-party harnesses and will be rolled out to more shortly (read more).<p>To make the transition easier, we’re offering a one-time credit for extra usage equal to $200 on your Team plan. Redeem your credit by April 17. We’re also introducing discounts when you pre-purchase bundles of extra usage (up to 30%) for your team.<p>We’ve been working to manage demand across the board, but these tools put an outsized strain on our systems. Capacity is a resource we manage carefully and we need to prioritize our customers using our core products. We appreciate your support as we make these changes.",

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"id": "47578918",

"title": "Are you team MCP or team CLI?",

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"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "sharath39",

"score": 16,

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"post_text": "Bonus point is you say why.",

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"id": "47601577",

"title": "BetterDB – open-source Redis/Valkey migration across clouds and self-hosted",

"link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601577",

"domain": "news.ycombinator.com",

"author": "kaliades",

"score": 15,

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"created_ts": 1775054291,

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"post_text": "I built this after a year at Redis as an engineering manager for their developer tools, watching the ecosystem fragment after the license change.<p>Redis 7.4 broke data file compatibility with Valkey. RIOT, the only widely-used open migration tool, was archived last October with no open replacement. And the clouds - AWS, GCP, Redis Cloud - have no incentive to make leaving easy. If you want to move between providers, switch protocols, or get off managed infrastructure entirely, you&#x27;re on your own.<p>BetterDB ships a three-phase workflow to fix that:<p>Analysis - scans your keyspace and flags blocking incompatibilities before anything moves. Green&#x2F;amber&#x2F;red verdict.<p>Execution - RedisShake for same-protocol speed, or command-based for cross-version and cross-protocol migrations where binary transfer fails.<p>Validation - key count comparison, sample spot-check, and performance baseline comparison against pre-migration snapshots.<p>Any direction. Any provider. Standalone or cluster.<p>docker run -p 3000:3000 betterdb&#x2F;monitor<p>Website: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;betterdb.com\nRepo: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BetterDB-inc&#x2F;monitor\nDocs: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.betterdb.com",

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"top": "The most useful Redis pattern I've found for real-time data: write with explicit TTLs and let stale data expire naturally instead of invalidating. If your writer dies, the data expires on its own within the TTL window. No stale data served indefinitely. Simple but surprisingly hard to break",

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"text": "The simplest approach is the best in 90%+ of the cases!",

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"top": "Show HN projects that solve one specific workflow problem tend to outlast the ambitious all-in-one tools. Scope is a feature.",

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"text": "This seems to be the hardest part with migration tools.\nThe more they try to be \"universal\" (compatible with different providers, protocols, and configurations), the more edge cases they have to handle, and that's where problems usually arise. Having a clear scope and an explicit indication of \"this won't work here\" is often more helpful than trying to support everything.",

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"text": "That's exactly the bet we're making. The Redis/Valkey ecosystem has enough sprawl - a tool that does one thing well and stays out of the way is what we'd want to use ourselves.",

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"text": "Exciting! Good luck!",

"author": "s3micolon0",

"depth": 2

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{

"text": "Thank you!",

"author": "kaliades",

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