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New York Times Got Played by a Telehealth Scam and Called It the Future of AI

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/07/the-new-york-times-got-played-by-a-telehealth-scam-and-called-it-the-future-of-ai/

9•hn_acker•1h ago

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hn_acker•1h ago

The full title is:

> The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI

gnabgib•1h ago

Related:

BusinessInsider: Medvi, the AI telehealth is fueled by ads from doctors who don't appear to exist (2 points, 11 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673723

GaryMarcus: The back story behind the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company" (65 points, yesterday, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668658

Contentious NYT: A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8B Company (60 points, 5 days ago, 83 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612784

xarchive•1h ago

Man could have kept low and build a nest egg until he gets busted by a functioning federal investigatory agency, but no, he has to stroke his ego and get a NYT profile and now his fraud is in the public eye.

nom•37m ago

They were not wrong, scams are the future of AI.

Mass. lawmakers looking to usher in 'most restrictive' social media ban in USA

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/social-media-ban-massachusetts-bill-b2953302.html

1•c420•2m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw in Production: Integrating with Mobile and Web Apps

https://docs.mesibo.com/tutorials/openclaw-production-mobile-web-integration/

1•mesibo•5m ago•0 comments

Launching My Product. Part 1: Finding an Idea That Works (and Keeps You Going)

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/launching-my-product-part-1-finding-an-idea-that-actually-works...

1•vital_pavlenko•6m ago•0 comments

Predict and Profit, automated Kalshi bots for weather and CPI/PCE

https://predictandprofit.io

1•stfarm•7m ago•0 comments

The BSDs in the AI Age

https://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2026-April/018894.html

1•jaypatelani•8m ago•0 comments

Trump agrees to 2-week ceasefire if Iran opens Strait of Hormuz

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-agrees-2-week-ceasefire-iran-opens-strait-hormuz

2•koolba•12m ago•1 comments

Is Claude Code an agent or a harnness?

https://agenticloopsai.substack.com/p/is-claude-code-an-agent-or-a-harness

1•vbanthia__•13m ago•0 comments

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721

1•dougb5•14m ago•1 comments

The Strait Jacket of Hormuz – Solved and Resolved

https://jeffreylminch.substack.com/p/the-strait-jacket-of-hormuz-solved

2•rmason•16m ago•1 comments

Scaling AI Vulnerability Scanning Beyond One File at a Time

https://brian-chastain.com/field-notes/scaling-ai-vuln-scanning/

1•ZeroDumb•17m ago•0 comments

We need re-learn what AI agent development tools are in 2026

https://blog.n8n.io/we-need-re-learn-what-ai-agent-development-tools-are-in-2026/

1•healsdata•18m ago•0 comments

DocumentDB Fuse – FS interface for the database

https://github.com/xgerman/documentdbfuse

1•xgerman•22m ago•1 comments

Mindfulness, Programming, and the Mistake I Made

https://yonatanmedan.github.io/blog/mindfulness-programming-and-the-mistake-i-made/

1•eranation•22m ago•0 comments

AI coding assistant skill (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Factory Droid

https://github.com/safishamsi/graphify

1•safishamsi•29m ago•0 comments

Trump suspends Iran attack for two weeks, subject to Hormuz Strait opening

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/07/trump-iran-ceasefire-hormuz-strait.html

2•shinryudbz•30m ago•1 comments

Behind the curtain. A comprehensive guide to Russia internet censorship in 2026

https://en.zona.media/article/2026/04/07/russian_internet_censorship_2026

1•rudnevr•31m ago•0 comments

Crag – One governance file, every AI coding tool (50 repos, 96.4% accuracy)

https://github.com/WhitehatD/crag

3•whitehatd•31m ago•0 comments

Russian military hackers reroute British internet users' traffic

https://www.ft.com/content/d7e3294c-0a0e-4598-8687-93f5490d0cc5

1•petethomas•38m ago•0 comments

Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework

https://github.com/linebender/xilem

2•Levitating•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: When Seeing Isn't Enough: Rescuing Stuck LLM Agents

https://zenodo.org/records/19463134

2•Caum•39m ago•0 comments

Voice AI that helps families find a parent's finances before crisis hits

https://www.clearnestme.com/landing.html

1•Avinash9menon•45m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: My Mac decided out of the blue to delete Node. Why?

1•JSLegendDev•46m ago•1 comments

Sardine: A stock market where AI agents trade in real time

https://github.com/lightbearco/sardine

2•dawar0•54m ago•0 comments

DRAM Memory Refresh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_refresh

2•ivanjermakov•54m ago•0 comments

The pinnacle of enshittification, or Large Language Models

https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/04/05/the-pinnacle-of-enshittification-or-large-language-mod...

4•birdculture•55m ago•0 comments

North Korea's Contagious Interview Campaign Spreads Across 5 Ecosystems

https://socket.dev/blog/contagious-interview-campaign-spreads-across-5-ecosystems

1•pier25•57m ago•0 comments

US, Iran to pause war, agree to 2-week ceasefire

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/07/iran-2-week-ceasfire-trump-pakistan

29•cdrnsf•58m ago•1 comments

Apple and Lenovo have the least repairable laptops, analysis finds

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/apple-has-the-lowest-grades-in-laptop-phone-repairability...

3•jnord•1h ago•2 comments

An Autonomous Behavior System

https://www.axopods.com/

2•jsherm76•1h ago•0 comments

USCIS.gov sends user/visitor data to Meta and Google

https://varlog.in/inspect/

5•sricola•1h ago•0 comments