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Career decisions in tech — compensation, interviewing, management transitions, and burnout — generate some of HN's most widely read threads. This archive collects those discussions for people navigating their professional path.

Salary surveys, layoff experiences, and advice for junior developers surface regularly with candid community input.

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An Interview with the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone

404media.co · 13 points · 2 comments

Semi lucrative careers after tech?

6 points · 2 comments

Remote Work Is Not Making Us Miserable

reason.com · 8 points · 2 comments

If you want to find a developer job abroad in 2026, please read this

relocateme.substack.com · 9 points · 0 comments

Permanym – for hiring teams overwhelmed by AI resume spam

permanym.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Hiring Method – a deterministic, math-driven recruitment platform

hiring-method.com · 5 points · 0 comments

UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote AE's to help make buildings cheaper

up.codes · 1 points · 0 comments

The Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed "Zero" Kids

newrepublic.com · 10 points · 0 comments

Turn SSH X11 Forward to WebSocket – remote apps flow to you workstation

3 points · 1 comments

Desktui – a remote desktop client for your terminal

github.com · 7 points · 0 comments

What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality

siepr.stanford.edu · 64 points · 70 comments

Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab

maxmynter.com · 26 points · 10 comments

Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops Look to Allow for Web-Based Remote Installations

phoronix.com · 10 points · 0 comments

Working Async – The new wave of remote work is async-first

workingasync.io · 7 points · 0 comments

Robotics startups are hiring across several roles

robotclub.substack.com · 2 points · 0 comments

The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn't coming anytime soon

theguardian.com · 47 points · 83 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering

ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments

Setting up a remote environment for agentic coding on a VPS

ma.ttias.be · 4 points · 1 comments

OneWayInterview – type a job role, AI builds the async video interview

onewayinterview.com · 2 points · 1 comments

AI companies stripping universities of their best computer scientists

theatlantic.com · 7 points · 3 comments

Pixar lays off over 100 Bay Area workers using ElastiGirl letterhead

sfgate.com · 6 points · 2 comments

What's the best AI coding tool today?

2 points · 2 comments

West Virginia paid digital nomads to move there during Covid. Many are staying

npr.org · 10 points · 3 comments

Hans Moravec Was Right About AI. What About the Fate of Mankind?

nymag.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Interview with a Maintainer

nesbitt.io · 19 points · 9 comments

Single-click and remote OpenCode session right in the browser

2 points · 0 comments

Volkswagen CFO addresses plant closures, job losses as profits sink

cnbc.com · 3 points · 1 comments

The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)

sive.rs · 117 points · 29 comments

Police Keep Losing Their Jobs for Using Flock Cameras to Stalk People

motherjones.com · 6 points · 0 comments

I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation

citizendot.github.io · 442 points · 121 comments