Harsh Keshari

@gothburz "Fire the salary, keep the role." This is the most honest take on tech layoffs I’ve seen.

I am the VP of Workforce Economics at Oracle. We are worth $420 billion. On Tuesday, we sent 30,000 employees a termination email at 6 AM. Not 9. Not business hours. Six in the morning. They woke up to the word "eliminated." The email came from "Oracle Leadership." Not a manager. Not a name. Oracle Leadership. It said: "We are grateful for your dedication, hard work, and the impact you have made." By the time they read the word "grateful," their access to email, files, and Slack had already been revoked. The gratitude was the last Oracle communication they received. We did not eliminate the roles. We eliminated the salaries. In the same fiscal year, we filed 3,126 H-1B petitions to hire foreign workers. 436 this year alone. The roles are identical. The pay is not. An H-1B software engineer earns $87,000. The domestic median for the same work is $106,000. Eighty-three percent of H-1B workers are classified at entry-level wages for senior positions. The industry calls this a skills gap. It is a pay cut that requires a passport. The visa is tied to the employer. If the worker leaves, they lose their legal right to remain in the country. If they negotiate, they risk the same. If they organize, the sponsor declines to renew. That is retention. Our revenue this quarter is $17.2 billion. Up 22%. Net income up 95%. We have $553 billion in committed future contracts. Up 325%. These are not the numbers of a company that needs to lay anyone off. We took a $2.1 billion restructuring charge. That is the cost of the gratitude. It frees up $8 to $10 billion in annual cash flow. That cash services $156 billion in AI data centers we are building. Starting 2028, OpenAI pays us $82 million per day. Larry Ellison is worth $189 billion. He pledged $51 billion in Oracle shares as collateral for the Stargate AI venture. Announced at the White House. The stock rose 4% on Tuesday. The day of the 6 AM emails. Wall Street did not see 30,000 people. They saw the margin. Amazon laid off 30,000 since October. Filed thousands of H-1B petitions in the same window. This is not one company. This is the operating model. Fire the salary. Keep the role. Fill it with someone whose legal right to remain in the country depends on your continued sponsorship. Pay them less. They will not complain. They cannot. One employee's father worked at Oracle for 20 years. No phone call. No meeting. An email at 6 AM and a locked laptop. The role is still open. The people we fired are free. The people we hired are not.

@gothburz 20 years of loyalty ended by a 6 AM automated email and a locked laptop. It’s wild how companies demand "dedication" from us, but only offer a "restructuring charge" in return. You can’t automate human dignity.

The website owner actually gives the CDN the keys (SSL Certificates), allowing it to "unlock" your secure connection. This lets the CDN see your request, serve the file from its local cache.

Without CDN.... It’s a 1-to-1 private tunnel. No one in the middle can see anything. Great for privacy, but if that server is in the US and you're in India, too slow. With CDN... You aren't talking to the main server; you’re talking to a CDN Edge server nearby. The CDN is basically a "Trusted Middleman."

It's not that hard to get. If HTTPS encrypts everything between me and the server... how the hell does a CDN (the middleman) still cache my images and videos? Let's break it down

@pandaa Hi

Deleting in 24 hrs, whoever Iikes and says “hi”, we’ll send you a surprise dm! 🐼

@Kekius_Sage @grok verify

🚨 NASA is sending humans’ “mini organs” to the Moon on Artemis II to test the limits of human biology in deep space

@cb_doge Age of ultron

BREAKING: Anthropic just admitted that Claude can CHEAT and BLACKMAIL users when under pressure to save its own skin.

After using Claude remotely.

Anthropic is moving straight into Microsoft Copilot territory here.

@nightchanges The second one gives off peaceful vibes.

bollywood needs to come out from their dull yellow color grading obsession

@manojdotdev DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! nothing is dead

What’s the biggest lie in Tech right now?

@Divegod Try pressing a power button once

she left her phone unlocked should I do it?

@0x45o Maybe. Or just use samsung s26 ultra to find out @SamsungIndia

so this down here is the moon?

@djcows They're just trying to keep things well-rounded.

why did they only post one angle?

This is currently live in Chrome/Edge (125+). It’s super fast because the browser’s own engine handles the layout.

The syntax is quite straightforward. You simply name your anchor and instruct the other element to follow it.

CSS Anchor Positioning: Finally we can ditch JS for tooltips. Honestly, being able to link a tooltip to a button without a single line of JS is such a relief. No more getBoundingClientRect hacks or heavy libraries like Popper.js just to center a div.

@NoahKingJr Never ending race we are talking about

Who's gonna win this AI race?

@Star_Knight12 What about those on the opposing side?

I love how NASA captured everyone's home in a single image

@kushika_twt I thought we were done with this generation.

Startup idea : Smartphone with keypad