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Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?

134 points·by pqtyw·28 hari yang lalu·53 comments

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US, for first time in 50 years, experienced negative net migration in 2025

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Microsoft swerves EU antitrust fine with price deal for unbundled Teams

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pqtyw
·kemarin·discuss
I personally find OpenCode's TUI atrociously awful, I guess a matter of taste.
pqtyw
·3 hari yang lalu·discuss
> As a left-leaning forum

Even if true it's almost entirely orthogonal.

The "right" is usually only against government control, intervention and surveillance until they get into power. Then they double down on them. Also right wing parties/groups are generally better at controlling and silencing internal opposition (since they are lot better shutting up and falling in line when push comes to shove regardless of their personal beliefs). So they are usually a lot more effective at imposing these things.
pqtyw
·3 hari yang lalu·discuss
Well everyone pays the same for oil (unless there are export/import control and adjusted by transportation costs) worldwide.

So americans will be paying 2x as well its just that some of that money will stay in the country instead of going to the middle easter or US (which happens to be the largest supplier of oil to the EU)

Back in 2025 EU imported ~15% from the gulf. China was over 40% and Japan at 95%...
pqtyw
·3 hari yang lalu·discuss
> is laughable

Exactly, that's why it was obvious he was speaking implicitly.

And well... EU will have to clean up others mess that they sprayed all over Europe anyway.
pqtyw
·3 hari yang lalu·discuss
Apple's proposal was only for photos being uploaded to iCloud and not local ones.

IIRC weren't there some thoughts that they'd switch iCloud to E2E but add local scanning on upload (compare to what it currently when Apple, Google, etc. freely scan all your cloud photos anyway). That didn't seem like a terrible deal on paper.
pqtyw
·3 hari yang lalu·discuss
Unless they are doing something criminal their values are their and their voters business, regardless of how reprehensible they might be.
pqtyw
·3 hari yang lalu·discuss
Well it's privacy from private companies. The government still needs to see everything you do just in case. Its not like you have anything to do hide? Do you?
pqtyw
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
Due to lack of transparency. The way the EU is structured makes it way easier for national governments to push policies under the radar and avoid any type of responsibility by deflecting any backlash to the EU (due to fundamental flaws in how it's functioning).
pqtyw
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
That's not the point. Voters generally can't vote for their preferred EU policies because they come bundled with internal policies which are obviously much more important for voters.

It's a bit like with replacing senators in the US with state governors (except actually worse since US is way more centralized and local and federal parties are much more aligned).

If voters actually voted for council representatives directly they could actually influence it in meaningful ways. Now e.g. in Germany a CDU voter won't suddenly switch to AFD or Greens just because they prefer their stance on Chat Control (or whatever else).
pqtyw
·5 hari yang lalu·discuss
Straw man... voters in parliamentary democracies generally are fully aware of whom the prime minister is going to be if the party wins.

Nobody really knows or cares who is going to be appointed to the commission since domestic issues always completely over shadow it.
pqtyw
·5 hari yang lalu·discuss
Are you implying Denmark and other governments supporting it are pushing Chat Control as some sort of false flag operation to undermine the EU?
pqtyw
·23 hari yang lalu·discuss
So far seems like none of those use cases have generated meaningful income streams? The consumer/non-developer market is mostly dominated by OpenAI and Google anyway...
pqtyw
·23 hari yang lalu·discuss
Because Microsoft managed to sell it to a huge number of companies, not directly because people are using it. Hardly anyone is paying for Grok.
pqtyw
·23 hari yang lalu·discuss
> Twitter everyday

So what? How much money is that making?
pqtyw
·23 hari yang lalu·discuss
It helped the valuation but as just like SpaceX hallucinations about the space data centres. Doesn't mean its not a crappy low end model itself. Btw is Twitter even making any money?
pqtyw
·23 hari yang lalu·discuss
By not succeeding? It's an also ran, a closed proprietary model which is behind Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and a a bunch of Chinese companies, how do you make money with a produce like that? (besides the absurd IPO of course...)
pqtyw
·24 hari yang lalu·discuss
But there is no indication they are losing money on tokens when R&D and other expenses are factored out? The margins on API are likely very high so the higher the volume the more likely they will be able to cover the other mostly fixed costs.
pqtyw
·24 hari yang lalu·discuss
> unlimited access to compute

Yes because Grok failed and they now have "unlimited" compute they can sell to other. I mean you are right that if they did X, Y and Z they could be very successful but their is no indication that might happen. In any meaningfully way seems like Cursor has peaked a while ago.

> An enterprise

Well either they are the type of companies which just buys whatever Microsoft is selling OR they let their developers to mostly pick what they feel is the best tool for the job on their won. I don't think there is that much in between (and its a cutthroat market e.g. GitLab)

> a Github Replacement, PR review/Bug Bot, Cloud Agents

Those things are a dime a dozen, you can vibe code them in weeks/months and there plenty of options on the market already. Well not Github of course, but there are various reason for that which have little to do with product quality and features (not that I think there are many companies which could build a meaningful GH replacement in a realistic time period despite its many flaws).

I just don't really see a huge income stream for dev tools companies (just like there never was) they can skim of something from the top by reselling AI models (generally at zero or negative margins..) but that's not the most lucrative business model when you have no real moot.
pqtyw
·24 hari yang lalu·discuss
Fundamentally you are right, problem is that most UI applications in general have garbage tier UX and/or are a buggy mess.
pqtyw
·24 hari yang lalu·discuss
> $4B ARR

If you resell something worth $5 for $5 while having to pay for R&D and operating expenses that's not exactly comparable with a company that's selling actual products.

> Say 17x Multiple

On an extremely low margin business it is, yet again that wouldn't be the stupidest thing in today's market.