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"Clothing-as-a-Service" startup charged with $300M fraud (2025)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/clothing-tech-entrepreneur-charged-with-300-million-fraud-in-us.html
15•mv4•1h ago

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mv4•1h ago
A prominent entrepreneur who founded the now-bankrupt clothing technology startup CaaStle was criminally charged on Friday with defrauding investors out of more than $300 million, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
xenospn•1h ago
40-under-40. They always are.
mv4•1h ago
seems to be the pattern doesn't it.

This hedge fund manager did a review on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V36kSqwjaaw&t=7s

runamuck•1h ago
"This included alleged representations that CaaStle earned $66.3 million on revenue of $439.9 million in 2023, when it actually lost $81 million on revenue of $15.7 million." - Seriously, why would someone attempt to pull this? This lie seems really easy to catch. I don't get it?
Bratmon•1h ago
"Fake it til you make it" is near-universal in the space. You just never hear about the ones who do make it.
mv4•1h ago
Do investors do due diligence anymore?

TakeoutReader – Turn your Google Takeout JSON into a readable report

1•martinZak•9s ago•0 comments

Show HN: One provider starts lying at request 50. The quorum catches it

https://github.com/sbw70/verification-constraints/blob/main/modules/integrated-constraint-demos/t...
1•sbw70•54s ago•0 comments

Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in March 2026

https://bootstrappersbreakfast.com/2026/02/24/roundup-of-march-bootstrapper-events/
1•skmurphy•3m ago•0 comments

How Jeffrey Epstein Used Reid Hoffman to Court Silicon Valley's Elite

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-04/how-jeffrey-epstein-used-reid-hoffman-to-court...
3•petethomas•3m ago•0 comments

Stathat Is Shutting Down

2•jervant•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RustyRAG lowest-latency open-source RAG on GitHub

https://github.com/AlphaCorp-AI/RustyRAG
1•zer0tokens•7m ago•0 comments

Senate fails to block US involvement in Iran war

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/03/04/iran-war-powers-resolution-senate-vote/88...
2•geox•7m ago•0 comments

OpenAI, Anthropic turn to consultants to fight over the enterprise market

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-and-anthropic-using-consultants-to-fight-enterprise-battle...
1•wavelander•7m ago•0 comments

Wgsl-Rs

https://renderling.xyz/articles/introducing-wgsl-rs.html
1•efnx•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MoatRadar – AI investment research through Warren Buffett's principles

https://www.moatradar.com/?promo=HACKERNEWS
1•chodelka•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built CLI for developer docs locally working with any Coding Agent

https://github.com/lifez/docsearch
1•lifez•9m ago•0 comments

Luckin Coffee Backer Centurium in Advanced Talks for Nestle's Blue Bottle

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-markets/consumer-healthcare/luckin-coffee-backer-centu...
1•doppp•11m ago•0 comments

The Training Data Paradox

https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/03/01/training-data-paradox-ai-replacing-engineers-who-trained-it/
1•fmkamchatka•12m ago•0 comments

The US is using repurposed Iranian drone technology to attack Iran

https://theconversation.com/the-us-is-using-repurposed-iranian-drone-technology-to-attack-iran-a-...
1•mosura•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Potatoverse, home for your vibecoded apps

https://github.com/blue-monads/potatoverse
4•born-jre•14m ago•1 comments

Determinate is the future of Nix today: Wasm, provenance, and flake schemas

https://determinate.systems/blog/determinate-nix-future/
1•biggestlou•14m ago•0 comments

Neither Android nor iOS: DIY Smartphone Runs on ESP32

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/04/neither-android-nor-ios-diy-smartphone-runs-on-esp32/
3•HardwareLust•16m ago•0 comments

I made a website where you can: Scan a bill. Split it fairly. No app needed

https://snapfair.pages.dev/
2•Herliken•18m ago•0 comments

Thoughts and Observationsp on the MacBook Neo

https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/599_not_a_piece_of_junk_macbook_neo
1•alwillis•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kvlar – Open-source firewall for AI agent tool calls

https://github.com/kvlar-io/kvlar
1•kvlar•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A universal protocol for AI agents to interact with any desktop UI

https://github.com/computeruseprotocol/computeruseprotocol
2•k4cper-g•20m ago•0 comments

Rust: The Unlikely Engine Of The Vibe Coding Era

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2•weinzierl•22m ago•0 comments

Depleted weapons stockpiles could affect the Iran conflict

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxzzqe82d2o
2•tartoran•23m ago•0 comments

Codeberg is down, suffering a DDoS attack

https://social.anoxinon.de/@codebergstatus/116173186557678264
2•mihaelm•23m ago•1 comments

Debunking the Myth of a Unified China-Russia: Threat Review

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2026-03/features/debunking-myth-unified-china-russia-threat
1•johntfella•26m ago•0 comments

Papers with Code

https://papers.app.nz
1•horsebatterysta•30m ago•0 comments

China Built an Underground Hypergravity Machine

https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/03/china-hypergravity-centrifuge-shrinks-geological-time/
2•andrewjneumann•31m ago•0 comments

Dyson Spheres on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23270
2•johnbarron•31m ago•0 comments

Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf Update – What's Going on with Shipping [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruOkuy3Tqv0
2•consumer451•31m ago•1 comments

The Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookseller/Diagram_Prize_for_Oddest_Title_of_the_Year
2•CPLX•34m ago•0 comments