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It's the biggest clue that it's typical reddit brained fanfic.

What about the claims though ? I dont see the point of getting hung up on just this and discrediting the rest of the story. Tbf this proves nothing without more confirmations however it might be possible to design client side A/B tests to catch this type of behaviour. Might be something NYT or some group with a well resourced investigative arm could pull off.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of fiction on Reddit these days, especially on subs like r/confession.

I treat these posts, especially ones that have indicators like these, as “fiction until proven otherwise”.

This has been a longstanding issue, particularly in the era of AI-generated content.

I know the OP. He's actually a compulsive liar. We had to fire him from our team at Big Food Delivery because he'd keep saying he was done with his tickets but then he'd be blocked on someone, and when the code showed up it would be crap and very verbose. Finally, one day someone said "Dude, can you at least review your own code?" and he flipped out and said he was suffering from trauma and needed time off, and that our company policy allowed Claude Code. It does, but you can't just post the output like that.

Then he went online and posted this and told us that we were screwed. Internally we're following the process to get him fired, but because he's technically hired out of Italy we can't do it without 3 months notice.

Anyway, I made that whole thing up but don't let that one small phrase discredit the rest of the claims.

Oh man you had me right til the end

I’m just upset he didn’t plummet sixteen feet through the announcer’s table

I definitely did consider it, but for the fact that we'd start endless debates about whether HN is becoming Reddit and so on. Though now that I think about it, that is a worthwhile honeypot to capture such a person in.

I don't think you have to claim you made that thing up. I don't care about the language, the hyperbole of the post just the claims. The claim that you know the OP of an anonymous reddit account is where I'd stop reading.

Don't let that one claim distract you from the others. They might still be true.

When I choose priority delivery in Uber, I can see the driver go to the store, pick up my order and drive directly to my place. I also see the driver usually have 1-2 stops on the way if I don't select that. If there's enough gap between myself and the restaurant, priority is absolutely a time save.

If this is Uber then it's not legitimate.

Or the app shows you a few fake deliveries... If this story is real then there's no reason you can believe what the app shows you.

It would have to do very accurate parallel construction of GPS signal to lie about the driver's location yet correctly predict the arrival time, which cannot be faked.

If you ask Uber drivers, they explain it to you that they are not even aware of your priority order.

All it does is that it puts you first in queue (assuming two people don’t pay priority in the batch). So it’s a gamble on your end.

But that makes sense. Why should the driver be aware of who is marked Priority? It might also open up the app company to liability (oh the app told me it's a "Priority", so I drove faster and crashed). The driver simply goes where the app tells them to go.

In my experience on Uber Eats, Priority definitely works.

It shows the guy going to the restaurant, the same guy that eventually shows up at my door. It shows it on the way to a couple of deliveries and takes as long as extra deliveries should roughly take. It shows the immediate previous delivery when it's almost delivered, and the guy spends about as long as i'd expect at that place.

Not saying that it's not deceptive in some way, but it's more than just a surface-level difference.

I don't think this is Uber, I think it's DoorDash?

I thought so too but one of the comments he comments about the ride sharing part of the company.

Ah! Good catch!

I mean, it’s not even remotely hard to believe. There are plenty of extremely similar examples, such as:

- grocery delivery algorithmic price fixing: https://youtu.be/osxr7xSxsGo

- dollar general lying about prices: https://youtu.be/uE5THiD-kTk

But yeah, it’d be good to get this backed up even better. Delivery companies are already on thin ice

Could be fanfic, but fees are 100% misleading.

Meh, I wouldn't read too much into it. They might be a backend dev but that doesn't make them perfectly rational under stress. Being in a whistle blower situation makes smart people do dumb things.

To me it's coherent BUT I'll still wait from a source I trust, e.g. 404 Media, to actually do journalism. I'm not saying it's fanfic or not, I'm saying "Noted, might read about it later in few days in a proper format with verified claims." nothing more.

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