Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service • Hacker News Board

Re: Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service

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Post by tomhow » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 5:02 PM UTC

sebmellen wrote: post #19

ohyoutravel wrote: post #14

All this evidence seems pretty legit. I found this on LinkedIn and came here to post, but noticed it had already been posted. Surprised I didn’t see it on HN front page.

It is being suppressed by @dang, I believe they may have a policy that allows suppression for bad YC-related news.

Moderators didn't see it, and our policy is the precise opposite of this – see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... or, for more color, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

We've restored it to the front page now.

Re: Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service

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Post by LambdaComplex » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 5:02 PM UTC

> No custom tailoring, no AI guidance, no real automation. Just pre-populated forms that required you to click “save”.

I hate that I've become this cynical, but it's gotten to the point where reading the "no x, no y, just z" construct makes me assume that writing is AI generated (and then I immediately stop caring about reading it)

Re: Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service

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Post by fantasizr » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC

there needs to be a fund with an ethos of "move slowly and do things accurately"

Re: Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service

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Post by nedwin » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC

gsibble wrote: post #12

How does this not reach the front page?

It's on the front page for me?

Re: Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service

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Post by srikar_alter » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 5:07 PM UTC

moomoo11 wrote: post #9

I miss 2010s YC until like 2017 ish when crypto sort of just caused a massive decline across the board. I guess it is great if you're a grifter/scammer or looking to just sell off to a FANG.

agreed

Re: Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 5:12 PM UTC

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Re: Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service

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Post by stuckkeys » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC

slackfan wrote: post #20

gsibble wrote: post #12

How does this not reach the front page?

It does, but it's also a takedown of a YC-backed company. Really great vetting there, guys.

LOL -For a good minute the comments were not visible. Someone is playing RR.

Re: Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service

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Post by gmerc » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 5:17 PM UTC

Well now we know how Cluely and friends can claim to be SOC2 compliant.

Re: Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service

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Post by rvz » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 5:18 PM UTC

Notice how none of Delve's affiliates on X are posting anything after that Substack post. Probably their lawyers told them not to say anything further.

What does that tell you about the scam that was unveiled?

Not good.

Re: Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service

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Post by dang » Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 5:20 PM UTC

stuckkeys wrote: post #27

slackfan wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does, but it's also a takedown of a YC-backed company. Really great vetting there, guys.

LOL -For a good minute the comments were not visible. Someone is playing RR.

We were in the process of merging the threads. Actually tomhow had correctly merged them, but I misinterpreted which submission had been first and undid that. Then corrected my mistake.

Had you checked the other thread during that "good minute", you'd have seen that all the comments were intact.