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Meanwhile YC President Garry Tan continues to support and defend Flock. I'm curious how he'd spin this as a good thing.

pesus 5mo ago
It's it anything like the comments I see on here defending Flock, it'll just be a bunch of attempting to scare people with the idea of crime, and disparaging anyone in favor of privacy as being pro-crime.
mrhottakes 5mo ago
Probably something like "but imagine how much money a few people are making from it!"
fragmede 5mo ago
If a school shooter was in your children's daycare, wouldn't you want there to be cameras so you knew where they were? ...is how I imagine that one goes.
- subscribed 5mo ago
  Cameras would get shot first. Come on.
  - neltnerb 5mo ago
    Why? They likely don't plan to make it out and it'll make them more famous after.
    - not_ai 5mo ago
      Exactly. If anything they will want to target those schools more. They want to be famous, they idolize each other.
- cyberax 5mo ago
  So you can then watch the shooting in nice graphic details, right? Or do you want cameras integrated with remote-controlled machine guns?
  - nailer 5mo ago
    The current school shooting response systems have 70 drones with capsicain.
- heavyset_go 5mo ago
  "The sound of children screaming has been removed"
bogzz 5mo ago
That little man has eroded any respect that he might have been a priori granted with his publicly documented descent into a vibecoding mania. I'm still in disbelief that the very silly photographer guy is the CEO of ycombinator. Ah well, it was a good era.
- nailer 5mo ago
  He's using AI assistants and excited about it. So is Linux Torvalds, and all my other programming friends.
  - toraway 5mo ago
    To the best of my knowledge Linus Torvalds isn't posting walls of text to Github breathlessly announcing he's 810x-ed [1] his "logical lines of code/day" compared to what he was doing in 2013. And, lest you think generating "600,000 lines of production code in 60 days" [2] is potentially problematic, has also fully solved the primary failure modes of AI coding identified by Andrej Karpathy, once and for all: "Karpathy's four failure modes? Already covered." [1] As someone who has experienced mania, including with a programming bent specifically, it's hard not to raise an eyebrow at the idiosyncratic human-y bits of his thinking floating up from the sea of em-dashes and it's not X it's Y in his manifestos. Plus volunteering this [3] in an interview: “I sleep, like, four hours a night right now,” he told his interviewer, fellow VC Bill Gurley, during an onstage interview Saturday. “I have cyber psychosis, but I think a third of the CEOs that I know have it as well,” he joked about his current AI obsession. (Tan’s assistant confirmed to us that he was joking. ...) It’s like I was able to re-create my startup that took $10 million in VC capital and 10 people, and I worked on that for two years, and I took anti-narcoleptics — I remember, you know, sort of being on modafinil... [1] https://github.com/garrytan/gstack https://github.com/garrytan/gstack [2] https://github.com/garrytan/gstack/blob/main/docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md https://github.com/garrytan/gstack/blob/main/docs/ON_THE_LOC... [3] https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/why-garry-tans-claude-code-setup-has-gotten-so-much-love-and-hate/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/why-garry-tans-claude-code...
    - nailer 5mo ago
deaux 5mo ago
Every single post on here about Flock should put in the title (YC S17). > City Learns Flock (YC S17) Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo
- khriss 5mo ago
  I wish I could upvote this twice.
Hikikomori 5mo ago
He goes to the same church where Thiel had his Greta is the literal anti christ speech.

pesus 5mo ago

It's it anything like the comments I see on here defending Flock, it'll just be a bunch of attempting to scare people with the idea of crime, and disparaging anyone in favor of privacy as being pro-crime.

mrhottakes 5mo ago

Probably something like "but imagine how much money a few people are making from it!"

fragmede 5mo ago

If a school shooter was in your children's daycare, wouldn't you want there to be cameras so you knew where they were? ...is how I imagine that one goes.

subscribed 5mo ago
Cameras would get shot first. Come on.
- neltnerb 5mo ago
  Why? They likely don't plan to make it out and it'll make them more famous after.
  - not_ai 5mo ago
    Exactly. If anything they will want to target those schools more. They want to be famous, they idolize each other.
cyberax 5mo ago
So you can then watch the shooting in nice graphic details, right? Or do you want cameras integrated with remote-controlled machine guns?
- nailer 5mo ago
  The current school shooting response systems have 70 drones with capsicain.
heavyset_go 5mo ago
"The sound of children screaming has been removed"

bogzz 5mo ago

That little man has eroded any respect that he might have been a priori granted with his publicly documented descent into a vibecoding mania. I'm still in disbelief that the very silly photographer guy is the CEO of ycombinator. Ah well, it was a good era.

nailer 5mo ago
He's using AI assistants and excited about it. So is Linux Torvalds, and all my other programming friends.
- toraway 5mo ago
  To the best of my knowledge Linus Torvalds isn't posting walls of text to Github breathlessly announcing he's 810x-ed [1] his "logical lines of code/day" compared to what he was doing in 2013. And, lest you think generating "600,000 lines of production code in 60 days" [2] is potentially problematic, has also fully solved the primary failure modes of AI coding identified by Andrej Karpathy, once and for all: "Karpathy's four failure modes? Already covered." [1] As someone who has experienced mania, including with a programming bent specifically, it's hard not to raise an eyebrow at the idiosyncratic human-y bits of his thinking floating up from the sea of em-dashes and it's not X it's Y in his manifestos. Plus volunteering this [3] in an interview: “I sleep, like, four hours a night right now,” he told his interviewer, fellow VC Bill Gurley, during an onstage interview Saturday. “I have cyber psychosis, but I think a third of the CEOs that I know have it as well,” he joked about his current AI obsession. (Tan’s assistant confirmed to us that he was joking. ...) It’s like I was able to re-create my startup that took $10 million in VC capital and 10 people, and I worked on that for two years, and I took anti-narcoleptics — I remember, you know, sort of being on modafinil... [1] https://github.com/garrytan/gstack https://github.com/garrytan/gstack [2] https://github.com/garrytan/gstack/blob/main/docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md https://github.com/garrytan/gstack/blob/main/docs/ON_THE_LOC... [3] https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/why-garry-tans-claude-code-setup-has-gotten-so-much-love-and-hate/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/why-garry-tans-claude-code...
  - nailer 5mo ago

deaux 5mo ago

Every single post on here about Flock should put in the title (YC S17). > City Learns Flock (YC S17) Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo

khriss 5mo ago
I wish I could upvote this twice.

Hikikomori 5mo ago

He goes to the same church where Thiel had his Greta is the literal anti christ speech.