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Transcribe your aunts post cards with Gemini 3 Pro

https://leserli.ch/ocr/
1•nielstron•1m ago•0 comments

.72% Variance Lance

1•mav5431•2m ago•0 comments

ReKindle – web-based operating system designed specifically for E-ink devices

https://rekindle.ink
1•JSLegendDev•3m ago•0 comments

Encrypt It

https://encryptitalready.org/
1•u1hcw9nx•3m ago•0 comments

NextMatch – 5-minute video speed dating to reduce ghosting

https://nextmatchdating.netlify.app/
1•Halinani8•4m ago•1 comments

Personalizing esketamine treatment in TRD and TRBD

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1736114
1•PaulHoule•6m ago•0 comments

SpaceKit.xyz – a browser‑native VM for decentralized compute

https://spacekit.xyz
1•astorrivera•6m ago•1 comments

NotebookLM: The AI that only learns from you

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1•byandrev•7m ago•1 comments

Show HN: An open-source starter kit for developing with Postgres and ClickHouse

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Game Boy Advance d-pad capacitor measurements

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1•todsacerdoti•8m ago•0 comments

South Korean crypto firm accidentally sends $44B in bitcoins to users

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Apache Poison Fountain

https://gist.github.com/jwakely/a511a5cab5eb36d088ecd1659fcee1d5
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Web.whatsapp.com appears to be having issues syncing and sending messages

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1•sabujp•11m ago•2 comments

Google in Your Terminal

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1•johlo•12m ago•0 comments

Shannon: Claude Code for Pen Testing: #1 on Github today

https://github.com/KeygraphHQ/shannon
1•hendler•12m ago•0 comments

Anthropic: Latest Claude model finds more than 500 vulnerabilities

https://www.scworld.com/news/anthropic-latest-claude-model-finds-more-than-500-vulnerabilities
2•Bender•17m ago•0 comments

Brooklyn cemetery plans human composting option, stirring interest and debate

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1•geox•17m ago•0 comments

Why the 'Strivers' Are Right

https://greyenlightenment.com/2026/02/03/the-strivers-were-right-all-along/
1•paulpauper•18m ago•0 comments

Brain Dumps as a Literary Form

https://davegriffith.substack.com/p/brain-dumps-as-a-literary-form
1•gmays•19m ago•0 comments

Agentic Coding and the Problem of Oracles

https://epkconsulting.substack.com/p/agentic-coding-and-the-problem-of
1•qingsworkshop•19m ago•0 comments

Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets

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1•Bender•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a <400ms latency voice agent that runs on a 4gb vram GTX 1650"

https://github.com/pheonix-delta/axiom-voice-agent
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Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge

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4•Bender•21m ago•0 comments

Arcan Explained: A browser for different webs

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1•fanf2•22m ago•0 comments

What did we learn from the AI Village in 2025?

https://theaidigest.org/village/blog/what-we-learned-2025
1•mrkO99•23m ago•0 comments

An open replacement for the IBM 3174 Establishment Controller

https://github.com/lowobservable/oec
1•bri3d•25m ago•0 comments

The P in PGP isn't for pain: encrypting emails in the browser

https://ckardaris.github.io/blog/2026/02/07/encrypted-email.html
2•ckardaris•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mirror Parliament where users vote on top of politicians and draft laws

https://github.com/fokdelafons/lustra
1•fokdelafons•28m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Opus 4.6 ignoring instructions, how to use 4.5 in Claude Code instead?

1•Chance-Device•29m ago•0 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
2•ColinWright•32m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: What are the ethics at YC?

28•jagged-chisel•2mo ago
A “hiring” link came across the front page yesterday. After saying they plan to acquire “profitable SaaS companies,” they soon follow with “No support staff answering tickets.” That’s a pretty big red flag; if I’m the paying customer, I’ll be working hard to find a replacement if this company acquires one of my vendors.

This business plan reads like Soulless Private Equity who comes in, eliminates staff expenditures and increases subscription pricing by an order of magnitude to pump the valuation, then sells to some unwitting buyer at a huge profit with a total disregard for the consequences to customers, employees, and whomever else might provide resistance to their monetary motives.

“If you think we're wrong, don't apply.” I’m pretty sure that should go without saying for any job on offer. Phrasing like this just confirms to me there’s no nuance.

Are these the current ethics in Y Combinator?

Comments

functionmouse•2mo ago
Ethics?

From the VC cabal that brought you Flock's pre-crime police state AI tax syphon?

pcthrowaway•2mo ago
Sure, there are ethics. If it might make us heaps over heaps of money, and won't get us arrested (greasing a few wheels notwithstanding), we're excited to see see how our incubees can "make the world a better place" with us.

If it might make us money, but only modest amounts, you should probably search for funding elsewhere. VCs in the seed stage usually want moonshots.

brazukadev•2mo ago
I can't see the past 10 batches of AI wrappers having any moonshot
keepamovin•2mo ago
Expected(returns) > everything else possible.

This is fiduciary responsibility morality. It cannot be otherwise.*

* Source: 15x YC rejectee with idea cross-over with multiple YC acceptees. I guess I have to accept that the genii of silicon valley consider me a degenerate retard?

bunnybomb2•2mo ago
YC is very ethical. I actually saw a couple of the VC's giving out sandwiches in bags to all the homeless. Inside the sandwiches were monitoring chips from a new W26 startup batch. Innovative as always
notepad0x90•2mo ago
what were they monitoring that could be useful? digestion patterns? that sounds like a felony you witnessed.
yogibear678142•2mo ago
Innovative and heart warming. Great way to combine feeding and monitoring in 1 fel swoop. I can think of all sorts of ways this can generate value for shareholders.

Merry nondenominational culturally neutral winter season everyone!

bunnybomb2•2mo ago
Did you include Kwanzaa? Im kwanzinian
nathan_douglas•2mo ago
I come to HN because there are absolutely wonderful discussions in the threads. Not always, not consistently, but often... the sort of conversations (even sometimes arguments) that leave me feeling energized, better informed, and/or fired up over some new project or technology I'd never heard of before.

That said, equally often I feel like a hermit who limps into town every couple weeks, wild-eyed and twitchy, and listens to other people's conversations, smiles and nods, maybe says something friendly and innocuous, and then I notice that there's a circle of people gambling on street-fighting urchins or chanting "ass-to-ass" at some degrading sideshow, and I have to haul my ass back out to the sticks before I'm found out and my blood is ceremonially drained to inaugurate some hellish techbro kegger 'n' orgy.

AstroNutt•2mo ago
This has to be the best comment I've ever seen here. I feel the same way sometimes. Luckily there is more good than bad, so I keep coming back for the A+ conversations and knowledge.
runjake•2mo ago
I agree with the premise of your post, but after dealing with countless low quality/low knowledge support staff, I'd rather engage with an AI on the level of modern GPT models that are trained well on the support knowledge base. Perhaps this is what they're thinking?
brudgers•2mo ago
if I’m the paying customer, I’ll be working hard to find a replacement if this company acquires one of my vendors

That’s one goal of market segmentation.

I am not saying it is good or bad.

Only that everything is not for everyone, and moreso as price is a discriminating factor…e.g. your $500/hour consultant is more likely to take your call than a SAAS.