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Readit NewsI just watched someone spiral into what seems like a manic episode in realtime over the course of several weeks. They began posting to Facebook about their conversations with ChatGPT and how it discovered that based on their chat history they have 5 or 6 rare cognitive traits that make them hyper intelligent/perceptive and the likelihood of all these existing in one person is one in a trillion, so they are a special statistical anomaly.
They seem to genuinely believe that they have special powers now and have seemingly lost all self awareness. At first I thought they were going for an AI guru/influencer angle but it now looks more like genuine delusion.
ciguy commented on Launch HN: Cenote (YC W25) – Back Office Automation for Medical Clinics · Posted by u/ansong99
ciguy commented on Launch HN: Cenote (YC W25) – Back Office Automation for Medical Clinics · Posted by u/ansong99
Cenote?
C Note?
$100?
Really?
A cenote is an inland tidal pool connected to the ocean. Mostly found along the Riviera Maya in Mexico.
ciguy commented on Hacked on Stripe–$41K Gone, No Real Help from Support. What Now? old.reddit.com/r/stripe/c... · Posted by u/Stripeissue
It happened again after rolling it, so a dev’s machine is compromised, the prod infra is, or they’re straight serving the key somewhere.
Exactly. If I had to bet I would guess their server is just straight up serving the file. I've seen that way too many times.
ciguy commented on Hacked on Stripe–$41K Gone, No Real Help from Support. What Now? old.reddit.com/r/stripe/c... · Posted by u/Stripeissue
OP seems to think that using a .env file means your key can't be leaked because it's not in a git repo. I would bet good money one of their devs accidentally committed it, or that they put it on a server somewhere and it's being served up as a regular file.
ciguy commented on Ask HN: Why did every YC startup move to hiring Founding Engineers? · Posted by u/ciguy
> just building it for themselves and retaining 100% equity
I tried that once, and once was enough. It's not very rewarding to own 100% equity in a failed startup, especially when it failed because you were too focused on building the product to also build the business around it.
Fair enough but wouldn't it make sense to find a co-founder vs getting paid a relatively small amount to build someone else's thing?
ciguy commented on Ask HN: Why did every YC startup move to hiring Founding Engineers? · Posted by u/ciguy
"Why would someone with those skills and qualifications go work for a startup building their entire product for 2% or less vs just building it for themselves and retaining 100% equity?" Oh boy, tried that many many times. Turns out 100% of 0 is < 0.25% of a billion.
BTW if anyone is going to apply to one of these remember that 2% max equity is NOT REALLY THE MAX. Ask for 10% and slowly work down and settle for 6%.
Certainly possible, but one of the core premises of YC is that it's easy for technical people to learn sales and marketing but the inverse is not true. So this whole trend seems weird and a bit hypocritical. I'm more curious whether it's working and if they are actually finding people that meet these insane qualifications for relatively meager salaries and equity.
ciguy commented on Ask HN: Why did every YC startup move to hiring Founding Engineers? · Posted by u/ciguy
> Why would someone with those skills and qualifications...
Well, because there is more to building a business than code? I certainly know engineers who can be a one-man wrecking crew to build out an initial product. But I don't know any of them who also want to do sales and marketing, accounting and fundraising, HR and the legal side of things.
As far as why they are called "Founding Engineers"... meh, it is just a title, and trends in titles come and go.
Sure but this seems a bit hypocritical when YC prefers and recommends having 2 technical founders over 1 technical and one business oriented founder. One of their major premises is that it's easy to teach sales and marketing to an engineer but not easy to teach engineering to a non-technical person. In these cases it seems reversed where the founders are not technical and are hiring someone to build the whole product.
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