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ericlevine
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Comment #48316650
This really hits the nail on the head. The current permissions models are totally broken IMO. You're either approving everything, restricting access and neutering your agent, or fu…
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Comment #47450517
This is fantastic. There are a ton of use cases where you'd want to be able to build an integration that hooks back to your running agent session. OpenClaw has this today, but it's…
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Comment #47347099
Totally fair feedback, and it’s true, many of these are synthetic evals with a few that were still synthetically produced but guided. At this point, because it’s all self-hosted, I…
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Comment #47344699
Absolutely. You can see the evals here: https://github.com/clawvisor/clawvisor/blob/main/internal/in... And the results here: https://github.com/clawvisor/clawvisor/blob/main/inter…
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Comment #47341297
> Connecting your email is still a risk. > If you’ve built something agents want, please let us know. Comments welcome! I'll bite! I've built a self-hosted open source tool that's …
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Comment #47303275
Completely agree. As soon as I had OpenClaw working, I realized actually giving it access to anything was a complete nonstarter after all of the stories about going off the rails d…
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Comment #26794177
I have to agree with the other poster. My typing speed was in the 70+ WPM on qwerty prior to learning dvorak, and now I'm a glorified hunt-and-pecker on qwerty keyboards. The only …
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Comment #24734662
Quick note: you got the pronoun wrong for the founder of The Buttermilk Company when referencing her Medium post.
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Comment #21686561
Berbix | Full-stack software engineer | Full Time | Onsite | San Francisco, CA Our stack: Go, React, Typescript, iOS, Android, Google Cloud We're an Initialized Capital-backed, YC …
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Comment #21600507
Absolutely understand where you’re coming from. It can be jarring to be asked to go through those steps by a set of companies with whom you have no direct relationship. That said, …
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Comment #21600300
Completely understand and sympathize with that. We absolutely can (and will) do a better job of conveying the intent of the different checks here. The pose change requested is rand…
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Comment #21599800
Appreciate the thoughtful questions. On the point of why images leave our system at all, we provide a way to show our work to our customers — they won’t trust our results if they c…
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Comment #21599556
Thank you! And yes, this space is definitely becoming increasingly important. Our focus has been to provide a lightweight, low-friction means by which to confidently check IDs. Whi…
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Comment #21599016
Many of the existing KYC providers for fintech startups rely on credit reports to perform identity checks. Our perspective is that relying on credit reports alone is becoming incre…
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Comment #21598450
Thank you! Super excited to show what we’re working on. Yes, our product is fully automated - our customers can choose to review items that we’ve flagged as problematic, but they c…
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Comment #21598271
Our customers typically integrate with us using one of our client-side SDKs ( https://docs.berbix.com/docs/client-sdks ). Our web SDKs embed an iframe into your website (or spawn a…
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Launch HN: Berbix (YC S18) – Instant ID checks to fight fraud and stay compliant
Hi everyone! We’re Steve and Eric, the founders of Berbix ( https://www.berbix.com ). We make it easy to instantly verify photo IDs. Our goal is to empower platforms to accurately …
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Comment #21131136
Berbix | Full-stack software engineer | Full Time | Onsite | San Francisco, CA Our stack: Go, React, Typescript, iOS, Android, Google Cloud We're an Initialized Capital-backed, YC …
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Comment #7665481
Of course I'm way late to the game here, but thought I'd add one more voice of dissent: The real estate costs can be extremely low for self-driving cars. Imagine a tower of, say, 1…
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Comment #4913956
That's very good of Google to release the new maps app before the end of the holiday shopping season. If I were an Android executive at Google, I'd be fuming that they're providing…
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