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Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?
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#42Needs to be a post mortem on how this was allowed to happen.
Gauntlet AI was a mask of BloomTech initially at least.[1] BloomTech was a mask of Lambda School. Y Combinator funded Lambda School. And Paul Graham admired Austen Allred's persistence to scam people.[2]
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#44Wow, this doesn’t even look like the normal “hiring”/jobs post. Just a funnel straight into a potential scam :/ Shocking to see it here. It looks like they might be using a loophole since their product is training for jobs they are using that as a substitute for, “we’re hiring.”
> Just a funnel straight into a potential scam
They claim that they do not charge you anything. So, how can they scam you? Of course, besides your hours and the potential outcome (code). Just curious.
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#46When I saw this, I thought it was a paid advertisement on HN. yuck. At least when other companies do the jobs post it always includes "is hiring" to make it clear what it's for.
Some YC companies have more creative/curiosity gap titles for their hiring ads, which I dislike. There was once a job ad which was just a terminal command that pulled their job information, which was one of the few times I had to email hn@ycombinator.com to suggest that HN not encourage users to run arbitrary code.
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#47From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html:
Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down and fall steadily. Only one is on the front page at a time. The rest are listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs.
Also, from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:
Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.
I've deleted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506575 now because technically it wasn't a job ad. You can see from https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs the sort of thing that usually appears in this category.
Re: Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?
#48Wow, this doesn’t even look like the normal “hiring”/jobs post. Just a funnel straight into a potential scam :/ Shocking to see it here. It looks like they might be using a loophole since their product is training for jobs they are using that as a substitute for, “we’re hiring.”
> Just a funnel straight into a potential scam They claim that they do not charge you anything. So, how can they scam you? Of course, besides your hours and the potential outcome (code). Just curious.
To be fair they also claim they will give you $200k...
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#50Gauntlet AI I believe is correlated originally with Lambda School (YC S17). YC founders I believe are able to post job postings on Hacker News, although this might stretch the definition a bit...
Austen Allred started GauntletAI after his Lambda School bootcamp (now BloomTech) was fined, banned from participating in lending activities, and became too toxic to escape their old brand. It's not clear to me why he gets to post privileged ads on Hacker News. Is GauntletAI a division of BloomTech, and therefore considered a YC portfolio company? These aren't even job ads. GauntletAI is a recruiting play. They make…
As one of Austen’s haters, he’s fun to follow. End of last year he announced that he was going to relaunch a bankrupt company called Marin Software and have a documentary crew follow them and do it all with AI in a month or something.
A few weeks later, wow, they’ve booked $1.2m of revenue! And then he never mentioned it again. Documentary never surfaced. Website doesn’t work.
https://xcancel.com/Austen/status/2001357051541491717
Austen is the perfect representation of the AI world. A grifter with zero substance and happy to lie.