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22 pointsjanvdberg8 comments

I agree with others about the title being a little unclear.

Some of us HN regulars (or at least me) don't know much about YC or its members/founders/officers.

"Samuel H. 'Sam' Altman is an entrepreneur, programmer, venture capitalist and blogger. He is the President of Y Combinator and co-chairman of OpenAI."

EDIT: this comment ended up in the video, a bit of a debbie downer. Maybe I'm just cynical but it seemed like a commercial for Kamcord.

> Maybe I'm just cynical but it seemed like a commercial for Kamcord.

You aren't being cynical. As said below, the YC partners are making the rounds: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=kamcord.com

Additionally, the stream appears to be over, which is why unscheduled streams are not always a good idea.

This is a terrible title. What's the context of this video stream chat thing?

Kamcord is a video streaming startup funded by Y Combinator. (they just raised $10M funding, which is why the YC partners are making the rounds)

The intent is for steaming apps/games, except that there are face cams which take up 1/3 of the screen real estate because that is the new hip thing for streaming.

This still doesn't provide context to the link or why any video is streaming in the first place. Is sam altman taking questions, or are we just watching him chill and scratch himself, or what?

This is eerily similar to the "BREAKING NEWS: Larry Wilmore" joke that's played the last few nights on his show.

Would it be possible to have a longer runway on the announcement next time so that people have time to prepare quality questions?

Tell us the funny story behind your chat URL? :) `wss://suckit.kamcord.com/v2/[...]`

The first version of our socket service was called, unsurprisingly, "socket" service. We had to deprecate it for various reasons and build a new one. Our engineers have a sense of humor, so the product is what you see before you today :)

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