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by nickvec 6mo ago
Yeah, I felt like the TechCrunch title was a bit clickbaity ("The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten even worse"), so I opted to write my own title, which I feel helped get this thread on the front page.
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by nickvec 6mo ago
You clearly did not read the article. Why post something so confidently when you're not even informed on the topic?
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by nickvec 6mo ago
Sorry your thread didn’t gain traction, but this isn’t old news by any means. No need to be salty.
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by nickvec 6mo ago
I think it’s more the principle of deception that upsets people. Imagine if Apple released a new iPhone and publicly compared its specs to some previous gen Android. It’s not in good faith.
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Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own(techcrunch.com)
329 points by nickvec 6mo ago|176 comments
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by nickvec 6mo ago
Which do you use? I was unaware that Apple even let such apps on the App Store. I always assumed that their ToS would strictly prohibit it.
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by nickvec 6mo ago
Ehh… this quote alone is pretty benign. If you didn’t mention it, I wouldn’t have even considered the possibility of AI.
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by nickvec 6mo ago
Majority of people use their mobile devices these days to browse the Internet. Installing an ad blocker on your iPhone is a significantly bigger challenge than on desktop.
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by nickvec 6mo ago
@dang was this post affected by voting rings?
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by nickvec 6mo ago
A space company in the pursuit of profit... what could possibly go wrong.
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by nickvec 6mo ago
Is the entire video just scribbles of the different Apple products over the years? Pretty lackluster celebration if you ask me.
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by nickvec 6mo ago
Yeah, seems like the same thing occurred with me posting Day 1 as well... only 5 upvotes after 14 hours. Very strange.
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by nickvec 6mo ago
If you read through the article, you'll see that the author focuses more on the OneSignal and Elfsight requests. The generic third party requests to Google, YouTube, etc. presumably were included for completeness + transparency and are
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by nickvec 6mo ago
Yeah, not sure what happened with this thread. I was reading on LinkedIn that the Delve team is possibly brigading posts surrounding the controversy, so I wouldn't be surprised if they abused the voting ring detection system or somethi
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by nickvec 6mo ago
Part II - Day 2 of 5 thread in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584164
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Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service – Part II – Day 1 of 5(substack.com)
5 points by nickvec 6mo ago|2 comments
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by nickvec 6mo ago
Are there any serious union efforts happening in big tech right now? It’s asinine to me that tech workers haven’t unionized at this point and that folks still fall head over heel just to get a job somewhere that would dispose of you without
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by nickvec 6mo ago
And this is what happens when you don’t take security seriously folks and instead just rush out vibecoded features without proper QA.
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by nickvec 6mo ago
For Part II, Day 1, see https://deepdelver.substack.com/p/delve-fake-compliance-as-a...
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Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service – Part II – Day 2 of 5(deepdelver.substack.com)
5 points by nickvec 6mo ago|5 comments
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NASA’s track record says otherwise, no? Challenger and Columbia come to mind.
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by nickvec 6mo ago
These posts get upvoted because the content itself is big news (government apps having insane amounts of spyware is, imo, something worth discussing.) I think if the frontend was just plain HTML/CSS, it would still get a comparable num
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by nickvec 6mo ago
Sheesh... I should not have downloaded the White House app yesterday just to see how ludicrous it was. I just deleted it, though I'm sure a lot of my data has already been exfiltrated. Doesn't excessive tracking like this violate
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by nickvec 6mo ago
Committing fraud is never justified.
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by nickvec 6mo ago
> The result is a sort of alternative reality journalistic simulacrum that kind of looks like journalism, but genuinely isn't interested in any context or truth that upsets the apple cart. It's a sort of journalistic Ken Doll w
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by nickvec 6mo ago
Yep. CEOs care about the bottom line. Sadly, that is normally not compatible with something that is good for society, at least in the tech world.
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by nickvec 6mo ago
As an aside, Mark Zuckerberg claiming that you’ll be at a “cognitive disadvantage” if you don’t use Meta Glasses is hilarious and beyond out of touch. If anything, you’re at a social advantage for not constantly recording your peers like so
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by nickvec 6mo ago
> Being in his pocket means they owe him something. They don't. What makes you think that?
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by nickvec 6mo ago
https://archive.ph/dixqB
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by nickvec 6mo ago
no paywall for the CNN article: https://archive.ph/Pz81T

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