Why “secretary” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
The best part about all the insistence about it being the Department of War , is that Hegseth is still the secretary of defense The original purpose of the org was also explicit…
by mrguyorama · Oct 8, 2026
Makes me feel like my dev job at a fortune 500 company years ago was being a numpty secretary punching on a typewriter. I have very mixed feeling. I acknowledge that this is coo…
by karim79 · Oct 8, 2026
1. Non-paywalled dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006948 > Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling added that some of the largest IT firms in the world wou…
by palmotea · Oct 8, 2026
Note that this appears to be about green cards/permanent residency rather than h1b. Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said other companies that would be suspended from the P…
by sxp · Oct 8, 2026
Thanks! Unfortunately archive.ph requires passing an impassible computational paywall for some browsers/ips/etc. Since the article is so short it seem fine to just quo…
by superkuh · Oct 8, 2026
The article doesn't also quite give the numbers to say how effective they actually were. By modern standards the amount of people actually governing the empire was tiny. For ins…
by gampleman · Oct 8, 2026
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A secretary, increasingly called an administrative assistant or administrative professional in the United States, is a person who provides office and administrative support to a business or organization. They often deal with correspondence, scheduling, record-keeping, and general office administration. Read more on Wikipedia