Name and shame company: Canonical

They make us write essays and life stories and reject in 24hrs.

Felt the exact same frustration.

Second this. Canonical is currently winning the race to the bottom for tech interviews (I'm speaking with a couple of decades of experience on both sides of the table). They use lots of AI on their side (of course, none allowed on your side). A strange focus on your school years. Dark patterns in technical questions with no opportunity to get clarity. Ghosting afterwards. Interviews always involve some asymmetry but Canonical exploits that to the maximum.

Don't forget the exceptionally long interview cycles. I've heard some stories of candidates getting strung along for 6+ months to eventually get rejected.

Sad to hear - putting these things on Glassdoor can help more people avoid these situations.

Canonical spends a lot of money and effort to “scrub” negative reviews from glassdoor. At a minimum they reply to, and dismiss, concerns raised there but I recall mentions of ways to outright have some bad reviews deleted. Source: I worked there.

Keep reading HN.

HN feels like where you should go for the worst AI takes and head-in-the-sand copium.

Try something like C where changes come very rarely. Avoid going to Flutter or Dart!

Is there an option to revert back to old UI, like old.github.com, similar to reddit?

Sucks. Migrating to BitBucket.

While this is all sweet and positive stuff, my friends mostly are jerks who "Can't talk. WhatsApp only."

You probably forgot RSS.

Maybe they forgot RSs, or maybe not. I used to get Google alerts as feeds, until they stopped capturing most things. RSS alerts like Google alerts, when they used to work would be pretty cool.

You should probably add this to your list,

"Building Secure and Reliable Systems - Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems" by Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Piotr Lewandowski, Ana Oprea, and Adam Stubblefield. One of must read books for young SRE's

CORS policy is probably the most ignored part by budding devs.

More of such intriguing facts can be found in the book by Martin Jurafsky, Computational linguistics.