We have a really talented engineer on our team (in the US), who has a green card and everything. He's taking a job in Brussels, he said very plainly hes not sticking around to find out what happens next. I don't blame him.
If you are able to make it work in Belgium it's a great move. Free education, free healthcare, 20 days PTO minimum, public transport, 15 weeks of maternity leave, labor protections, basically no crime, no guns, no weekly school shootings, total tax rate of at most 60%.
This person is leaving a regime where the physical safety and liberties of immigrants like him/her are in jeopardy, and HN starts a 50+ comment thread about high taxes. Peak commentary.
Absolutely not. What a depressing country. Soulless people. Literally.
Try Belgium in winter.
And today with the European white guilt it's full of Africans who hate not only their people , but European traditions and culture. This is the reality.
>>he said very plainly hes not sticking around to find out what happens next.
Can't blame him, US residency really is a like a game of high attrition. Its your classic up or out scenario.
Some times even a passport doesn't guarantee a stay. Sooner or later, you fall ill, lose a home, have a divorce. Its a unique combination of extreme luck, work, health and many other factors several of which are totally outside of your control.
Because to a certain group of HN regulars everything that gives them a tingle in the conscience is "offtopic" and "politics". Another quieter group believe themselves to be the rational Übermensch and cannot wait for the vagrants and the spooky pinky haired leftists to be put on camps.
The site is getting inundated with bots. For the past few months everytime I realize some poster I’m replying to is looping in replies or having gaping holes in logic, I check their account and it’s been made in the past few months and the early interactions it had were with other accounts made in the same pattern.
Then you also see shit like these posts that touch on the admin in a negative light getting insta flagged and nuked off the front page.
I really wish there was more transparency. We can’t see flagged posts without a direct link.
How about a flagged section?
What about a feature to challenge the flag?
What about a justification for the flag? Do flagged posts need to be approved by a mod?
I love HN. Flagged posts are the worst part. I can’t tell if the community is being taken over by a subset of bad actors, or YC is asserting opaque editorial control. Feels bad.
Bootlickers. The tech industry is crawling with them unfortunately - perfectly happy to bury their heads in the sand and pretend that they'll never be out of favor. The Hacker News team doesn't seem to care, this has been happening all year with important information.
Musk's astroturf bot army. It's the same with any submission that points out how far into a fascist dictatorship the US has already plunged. It's either concerted botting, or comfortable US tech sector workers putting their fingers in their ears and saying "la la la I can't hear you" because as yet, it's not them getting shot in the street.
My wife came here on a K1 visa from one of the countries on that list. We have an appointment for interview next month (which determines whether or not she can remain in the country).
The US is no longer the place for anything that's truly worldwide. It's amazing how quickly the country has isolated itself compared to just one year ago.
Exactly, I have multiple relations that are leaders in research of their fields. They all used to work in the US and they have all moved away (except one but in the process).
Can you explain in more detail how suspension of immigrant visas cuts into who can attend WWDC? Do many people immigrate to the US just to attend WWDC? Does anyone at all?
Can you explain in detail how to maintain obdurate blindness to context that's so airtight that it's plausible for a potential WWDC attendee to ignore what's going on in the US? I mean it's not like they're going to get shot in the face.
I have worked alongside with Iranian and Russian tech workers. I hope they all have a green card by now. Other countries will now benefit from the brain drain instead.
My son-in-law is from Brazil, came to the US for grad school, has an Ph.D. in ML and a good job in the US. He got his green card via marriage a couple of years ago and was planning on probably getting citizenship in the next year or two. He is very worried about what all this might mean for that plan.
In his first term, I anticipated that one day he will wake up and say “any body with a green card, get the F out of the country”. I applied for the citizenship as soon as I was eligible to. I know it’s a matter of time until GC holders are somewhat affected.
I don't want to make an appeal to authority fallacy, but normal human heuristics would be to think that even a hearsay statement about what an immigration attorney said is more meaningful than a random commentor who claims not to see any evidence of something. Particularly where there is no reason to think said commentor would even see that evidence.
Does the US currently allow immigrants who are likely to become a "public charge"? The UK has not for a very long time (at least a few decades) and many other countries will not either.
> Does the US currently allow immigrants who are likely to become a "public charge"?
Providing evidence that the applicant is unlikely to become a public charge is an important part of most visa and green card applications. Form I-864 is an Affidavit of Support where a sponsor (usually the family member or employer sponsoring the visa or green card) promises to financially support the applicant.
If the U.S. really does have a problem with lots of visa and green card holders becoming public charges, it's not because their application process doesn't directly address the issue.
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Can't blame him, US residency really is a like a game of high attrition. Its your classic up or out scenario.
Some times even a passport doesn't guarantee a stay. Sooner or later, you fall ill, lose a home, have a divorce. Its a unique combination of extreme luck, work, health and many other factors several of which are totally outside of your control.
You either win spectacularly or exit trying.
I also uploaded this news to hackernews (before discovering that this also existed) and the post I did wasn't flagged (atleast not right now)
I sincerely hope that healthy disucssions can take place in Hackernews and such articles shouldn't be flagged as they are important.
Edit: my post got flagged as well WHILE I WAS WRITING THIS COMMENT THIS IS CRAZY
Then you also see shit like these posts that touch on the admin in a negative light getting insta flagged and nuked off the front page.
How about a flagged section?
What about a feature to challenge the flag?
What about a justification for the flag? Do flagged posts need to be approved by a mod?
I love HN. Flagged posts are the worst part. I can’t tell if the community is being taken over by a subset of bad actors, or YC is asserting opaque editorial control. Feels bad.
Use this link as your HN homepage and enable "showdead" on your profile
The purpose of a system is what it does. If the end result is the same, is there a difference?
Try posting a negative story on anything related to Musk
It's always worrying seeing news like this.
This really cuts into who can attend it.
Though since they no longer do the 5 days thing and just invite people at the office for a couple of days- might not even make sense.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/28/full-list-nationalities-lose-...
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This is genuinely bugging me right now as to how or even why Hackernews would try to curb this information.
Most likely will be unfrozen in couple of weeks. The real question is about new rules and how much harder it will be to get in.
Does the US currently allow immigrants who are likely to become a "public charge"? The UK has not for a very long time (at least a few decades) and many other countries will not either.
Providing evidence that the applicant is unlikely to become a public charge is an important part of most visa and green card applications. Form I-864 is an Affidavit of Support where a sponsor (usually the family member or employer sponsoring the visa or green card) promises to financially support the applicant.
If the U.S. really does have a problem with lots of visa and green card holders becoming public charges, it's not because their application process doesn't directly address the issue.