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   by sebmellen 7mo ago

   Hit piece or not, the blatantly fraudulent behavior displayed by Delve is reprehensible. And they didn't even try. Read this management assertion for one of the (known) affected companies: > We have prepared the accompanying descri
2. 182.▲
   by sebmellen 7mo ago

   Respectfully, I think there may be an issue with your voting ring detection, which is that if multiple people try to submit the same article and are redirected to an existing post and they upvote it, that might be setting off the voting rin
3. 183.▲
   by sebmellen 7mo ago

   It is being suppressed by @dang, I believe they may have a policy that allows suppression for bad YC-related news.
4. 184.▲
   by sebmellen 7mo ago

   I just got blocked by another YC founder (and potential investor in Delve?) for refuting his handwavey argument that "all compliance companies do this" [0] — this is beyond just marketing, it is active and blatant/intentional
5. 185.▲
   by sebmellen 7mo ago

   I think it may be getting (intentionally?) suppressed from the homepage. Given this is a YCombinator website, I wouldn't rule that out. Regardless, it's been an ongoing issue. I know a few involved companies — it takes basically 5
6. 186.▲
   by sebmellen 7mo ago

   Trust me, you can lie and get away with it if you go through YC and dropped out of a top university. Garry Tan blocked me on X for pointing this out. It's a big club, and you ain't in it! Fortunately, some of the old-YC spirit see
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   Delve (YC W24) – Fake Compliance as a Service – Part I(deepdelver.substack.com)

   111 points by sebmellen 7mo ago|1 comments
8. 188.▲
   by sebmellen 7mo ago

   Probably because it's 'political' news — but I don't think this is political as such. The Pentagon is (or should be) an inherently non-political government agency. @dang curious on your thoughts here though.
9. 189.▲
   by sebmellen 7mo ago

   To make the analogy much more gruesome, I guess you could say the the ears and nose have been cut off, but the head remains.
10. 190.▲
    by sebmellen 7mo ago

    1) Yes, clearly Iran is run by extremist zealots who are horrifyingly committed to their cause. I don't think any reasonable person disagrees with this. To invert my original comment, 'Eurasia has always been at war with Oceania,&
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    by sebmellen 7mo ago

    Russia and the US, from a “market share” standpoint, will be massive benefactors… but the knock-on effects of having a crippled global energy economy will be significant. As much as it may seem like a narrow political win for the US to prev
12. 192.▲
    by sebmellen 7mo ago

    “Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia” But on a more serious non-political note, what is the end game here? It's not hard to see a future with a barren and destroyed landscape of Middle
13. 193.▲
    by sebmellen 7mo ago

    And DNS hosted by Cloudflare. Who hosts DNS for other government websites?
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    by sebmellen 7mo ago

    Just as a tiny first piece of feedback, the main marketing website is very hard to understand or grok without a demo of how the tool works. Even just the quick YouTube video that you added in your post here, if embedded, would make a differ
15. 195.▲
    by sebmellen 7mo ago

    Dude. Please stop the fucking LLM comments. GTFO. And actually explicitly against the rules now. @dang
16. 196.▲
    by sebmellen 7mo ago

    Check my comment history, and you'll see how pervasive this is. I've tried to reply to every bot I've seen, but it's hard to keep up with.
17. 197.▲
    by sebmellen 7mo ago

    Does it feel good to be botting HN with ads for your own product? I'm so sick of reading OpenClaw comments! No activity for 7 months, and then in the past day, five comments from an LLM pitching your tool. What are you doing man? This
18. 198.▲
    by sebmellen 7mo ago

    Not only is it PII, it is also a biometric identifier under BIPA [0]. Perhaps moreso than a facial image alone (depending upon your interpretation of the law). [0]: https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/publicacts/view&
19. 199.▲
    by sebmellen 7mo ago

    I'm not affiliated with Didit, I run a separate company ( https://cerebrum.com ). We offer an IDV product and we work with a network of ~40 background screening companies in the US and are integrated to basically every ATS&#x
20. 200.▲
    by sebmellen 7mo ago

    What’s your extraction layer under the hood? BlinkID? Regula? KBY? Another IDV provider? Self-hosted OCR model/extraction layer? This is an interesting concept but the identity space is extremely crowded. It’s hard to find a specific n
21. 201.▲
    by sebmellen 7mo ago

    [flagged]
22. 202.▲
    by sebmellen 8mo ago

    Jesus.
23. 203.▲
    by sebmellen 8mo ago

    Huh. The more you learn. Thanks, I think I may have this too.
24. 204.▲
    by sebmellen 8mo ago

    Yep they changed their URL. I should have checked! Makes sense and quite interesting.
25. 205.▲
    by sebmellen 8mo ago

    How do you compare to a group like https://crescent.finance ? Disclosure: I am an investor in Crescent, but primarily I’m just curious!
26. 206.▲
    by sebmellen 8mo ago

    I shudder to think of how many layers of dependency we will one day sit upon. But when you think about it, aren’t biological systems kind of like this too? Fallible, indeterminable, massive, labyrinthine, and capable of immensely complex an
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    by sebmellen 8mo ago

    Perhaps the coolest website I’ve seen this year. The amount of dedication is incredible. If you look at this cynically you will get nowhere, but if you realize something like this can inspire the next Boyan Slat, it’s fantastic.
28. 208.▲
    by sebmellen 8mo ago

    We seem to be making up for it with better nutrition and medicine.
29. 209.▲
    by sebmellen 8mo ago

    The other thing is, we can't stop. Someone always will outcompete you if you try to pause.
30. 210.▲
    by sebmellen 8mo ago

    Yes, exactly my point. It's too hard to grapple with, so it's easier to ignore.