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Just out of curiosity, may I know why you pay API price at work versus using dozens of subscriptions that you APIfy?

It's not way cheaper long-term at all, I mean unless you really watch/listen to a tiny amount of content, you can rip the same way with Netflix, Hulu and so-on as well so I don't see how that makes it more durable?

What you are doing is practically the same equivalent as downloading torrents, how do you have "more guarantees" than just downloading?

PS: I'm saying this because what you are doing is already illegal so there is virtually no difference.

Reddit captures everything you are doing including your whole hardware and attempt to fingerprint you hard, so yes, keystrokes are included.

I would never trust a webpage to not send out all possible information, why wouldn't they do it?

Excellent branding, this will likely work (to an extent).

It's insane, but it's not like it's not known, personally, each time we have a party at home with friends, we always unplug the TV for this reason, it's out of doubt but it's normal to doubt as it's proprietary and has a microphone, so it's a bit obvious that it might be recording and processing data somewhere. The same as I would never trust an average phone around if I'm having a private conversation.

Blackbox+Mic = Not private.

To consider something secure software wise, it involves so many layers, and almost none of those are present with a Smart TV, so it IS considered insecure by anyone having privacy standards.

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I feel author might not realize how much this will lead to its death and probably also current visitors that sees this (in its current state - aka design seen 1M times with virtually zero work on branding done) might never return.

You can also just rent a VPS anonymously and setup an exit node there, which plenty do, you don't need an LLC or any sort of legal entity, you don't need to KYC and you can use XMR (multi-coin swap if paranoid).

Just curious, chaos and morality aside, the company finances are doing better or worse?

Personally I would be lost, because we've implemented everything around AI, more than a year ago with the assumption that models will keep getting better so the importance of building the tooling around it is capital and we've made the right choice, now close to ALL issues and features and customer requests are automatically solved.

The main issue I see is that currently managing 70 repos would just be physically impossible without re-hiring people versus like now with 8 monitors in grid and averaging 32 threads (4 per monitor) and being a bot for 10 hours a day, saturating about 20 subscriptions (mix Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Xiaomi, Minimax...) in total currently using our own tools, about $100K equivalent in token a month.

While I loved the era of before, I would genuinely be instantly depressed to go back to it knowing that the problematics have completely shifted, this isn't a 20% improvement or something, it's straight 10x increase (at least lately) and I'm quite conservative when I say 10x, people that have focused on their tooling and not use the general harnesses will understand what I mean.

I use AI daily as well to build tools for my daughter, toddler video-games, daily books... and so-on, it would be so frustrating to lose this.

Really, that crap on HN? Common, we can do better.

Time for a trip then.

Agreed, but that doesn't change the fact that people lie in general.

Most people start lying long before they reach any position of power and in many cases, lying is exaclyt how they got there. That's what makes it hard to fix: by the time someone is in power, the behavior has already been rewarded and is already doing a snowball effect. I'm not defending it (especially in Politics, it shouldn't be legal), just acknowledging reality that people lie about tiny things, so of course they lie about big things. It's more of a people problem, not only a people-in-power problem.

In practice, I doubt that they have a way out of all the lie-parade as well while being able to maintain their position, imagine if today any politician/CEO suddenly acknowledge "oh sorry guys, all that time we were just lying" => Career death (with snowball effect)

People lie all the time.

Not required by law so it's solely for the purpose of collecting (and probably reselling/sharing) your data, worth migrating your domains now while you can.

Naming 5 would be too short, it's actually the contrary, most countries do NOT have a functional vaccine monitoring system, so the shorter list would be the countries that DO. WHO's GVSB says it too, 65% of member states "do not have a functional post-marketing monitoring system" for vaccines. But since you asked: Philippines, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, that's ~+2 billion people right there but I can also tell you from European country from my own family (you can discard, sure) that they never actually reported anything despite having patients that complained of X, but that's anectodal, but what I'm saying regarding the fact that it's not reported isn't, it's data, available publicly. My own kid's Pedia do not report as well.

To your second question: many do have drug reporting on paper, mostly because GAVI requires an AEFI committee to access vaccine funding but in practice it's not the case which is why I said "(or just wouldn't do it)", virtually no Pedia would write a report for a kid having a headache post vaccination. As of 2022, apparently only 43% of ALL countries met WHO's absolute minimal bar of ONE serious report per million people per year, SE Asia is at 9%, a third of countries report close to zero.

And this isn't bad faith on my part, these are WHO and CDC's own numbers, not an opinion.

[1] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/documents/global-vac... [2] https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/70854/WHO_IVB_12... [3] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7249a2.htm [4] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5857292/ [5] https://www.gavi.org/sites/default/files/sites/default/files... [6] https://www.fda.gov.ph/pharmacovigilance/ [7] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40801-025-00492-z [8] https://siapsprogram.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/15-125-P...

To be fair, there is really a massive issue dismissing any discussion related to Vaccines which is frankly insane, go to an average Pedia for example:

- They don't have a mechanism (or just wouldn't do it) to report side-effects or complaints (unsure worldwide but I know personally that it's the case in many countries).

- They aren't even really informed about the vaccine research, they'll just say it's safe, without even actually knowing themselves or getting updated on latest research.

- They wouldn't even actually tell you anything, they would straight tell that your child must take a combo of 7 drugs, hmm ok?

Many people are also talking as if getting vaccines is just "free", nothing is free when it comes to drugs, there is always an upside AND a downside, but apparently discussing the downsides is a sensitive subject, saying there is no downsides is just spitting non-sense.

And now per this article doctors are openly ignoring the new federal vaccine recommendations. So "trust the guidelines" apparently only applies when they agree with them. You can't demand blind trust from parents while selectively disregarding official recommendations yourself, this is exactly how you destroy what little trust is left.

PS: My kid is recently vaccinated, before some Reddit people dismiss the whole thing as "anti-vax"

Straight to Cocomelon, catch them young'

You can just order domestic US.

Then improve it :)

Are you for promoting obesity and unhealthy behavior? It's not because you want to promote people being healthy (aka having a normal body weight) that you are "fat-shaming".

It's literally the business model of a ton of tech companies including most of YC I bet, the author seems to live under a rock?

Pretty much nothing with minimum viable guardrails (restricted shell into Container into MicroVM into VM + Firewall) which any dev knows how to setup, the fact that most don't is mostly about lazyness/recklessness.

Ready for the downvotes.

Exactly, that opinion comes straight from parroting international news that have no grasp about what's happening locally there. Most BPO workers are overworked (not all, depend the company, there are thousands of them) but they aren't treated badly.

POGOs are not the average BPO/callcenter, and working conditions for most are far better than most jobs, even in scam callcenters (with exceptions, as with anything else).

The average scam callcenter is relatively small scale with 20 workers in it and often is maintained within "family/friends", the POGO industry is very different and it's absolutely not reflecting the reality, that's just a particular niche that is mostly managed by foreign individuals (from China, Cambodia...)

Checking the citations is a loop away, zero excuses, they should be fined heavily for it as it just show reckless behavior, not "AI usage", using AI to produce an accurate document is not an issue in 2026.

Anything above 50MB RAM for this is shameful imo and reflect poor engineering.

Slopus-ed.

That seems to be common sense, is it not the default? That should be the norm if it isn't, it's like being a freelancer and being hired and publishing the project in your own name, that's borderline criminal imo.

In term of business, the era of "MVPs" have long sailed already, probably 95% of every projects released now is done so lazily that you can know in the first 5 seconds that the company will die in the coming months.