The best Hacker News stories from All from the past day
Latest posts:
Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript
Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018)
Regulators urge safety recall of Peloton treadmill after child dies
Regulators urge safety recall of Peloton treadmill after child dies
Are top websites using WebGL for fingerprinting?
QUIC and HTTP/3 Support Now in Firefox Nightly and Beta
5G: The outsourced elephant in the room
Why has no one made a better Goodreads
Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium
Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium
Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network
U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown
Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel
SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon
SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon
Bitcoin miners are buying power plants
Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
I've been trying to get a job for over a year now. I've interviewed at Google, Facebook, Dell, NSA, CIA, DoE (E=Energy), Airbnb, Palantir. Too many to list. I've applied to companies from the whoishiring thread every monthly. workatastartup etc. Always ending with ghosting, or a impasive rejection letter. I tried improving my interview skills. Reading Meyers, Knuth etc. books. Reading advice on Reddit etc. But I still always get rejected. I worked at EA (QA on Apex Legends), and IBM (dev) at 18. Quit due to lowpay/no insurance. Got referrals etc. dropped out my freshmen year at a top 40 college. Was on the cyber security team etc. College was too expensive so I had to dropout.<p>Got a low level customer support role at Amazon. But I only made $15 with no health insurance. Found some flaws within the anti-fraud system at Amazon, and wrote a detailed e-mail to the VP in charge of the anti-fraud system. It was fixed by 1am. Also was concerned about support reps being able to access any customer's data simply by pressing 'bypass' on the security question promt page. I couldn't transfer internally until a year later as well. Would ping your manager each time you apply as well. Have to delete your emails constantly due to only having 1gb email space. Assessment was similar to the one I took for CIA. Cognitive based assessment.<p>I even got ghosted after a interview for a manual labor job at Home Depot. I tried cold contacting executives at a few companies. Got meeting with SVP at Dell, Cisco etc. was fruitless though. Spoofed number to bypass contact whitelist etc.<p>I welcome any and all advice that any of y'all could offer. Even if it's brutally candid. I need a job with decent health/dental insurance. Medicaid is useless. I might be homeless soon. I'm scared, and I don't know what to do. I'm afraid that I'll end up like Bill Landreth.<p>e: dude@member.fsf.org will reply with a different email address.
Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-site tracking IDs
TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022