Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open • Hacker News Board

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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Post by mschuster91 » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:38 PM UTC

purplemoonx wrote: post #56

It's hilarious how these companies handle security breaches. I once reported superadmin user/pass committed to github at a major YC backed background check company I worked at and everyone tried to make it seem like it was my fault . I had just started working there and found it in the first week. Anyway, had to show that it was committed by their main Staff engineer 2 years before I even worked there. For 2 years ev…

> I digress, the CTO didn't respond because he was more worried about how it would make him look. This industry is dead - the wrong people work in it.

The main problem is that the IT industry for a loooooooong time "self-regulated" itself, the only areas that did have regulation had it come in externally (i.e. automotive, aeronautic, astronauts and maritime). Only in the last years, GDPR + insurances forced a bit of change and accountability, but still, it's far removed from the standards that company owners, workers and planners are held to in construction (licensed engineers), legal or medical practice. Mess up there and everything can happen from fines over a license suspension to a permanent removal, or even jail time.

In contrast, mess stuff up as a CTO and you'll probably be "asked" to voluntarily depart in exchange for a nice golden parachute.

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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Post by nope1000 » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:39 PM UTC

To forget tenant isolation on one endpoint is bad enough but to ignore it for 6 months is madness. I am at a SaaS company and our customers have such strict security requirements for us and that is for less confidential data.

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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Post by wkirby » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:39 PM UTC

cyberge99 wrote: post #58

wkirby wrote: post #38

I'm very intrigued by AI note takers, but I'm absolutely unwilling to expose me or my clients to this exact problem. The solution (theoretically) is a purely local note taker, but I haven't found one that's any good. Tried meetily and others in the same vein, including briefly rolling my own. The breakdown in the pipeline seems to be reliable local diarization and speaker identification; even if the transcription is…

Drafts.app is hideous but it has great routing capability and a dictation feature. I use it to capture what my thoughts and route based on content. I have a button that routes to an internal voice agent named KiKo. Ideas get routed to Things or todoist. Issues get routed to github, etc. It’s one universal surface for note capture. But man is it ugly.

My ideal use case is to pipe audio from both my microphone and capture system audio so things like our weekly team standup or my 1:1s with my devs can all have reliable, decent notes without taking me out of the flow of the conversation.

I think clearly the _leader_ in the space is granola, but I'm just not going to use a cloud provider for this.

Drafts have anything like that?

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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Post by fsuts » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:42 PM UTC

> He responded within minutes: "thank you! can you report it to our CTO and we will look at it immediately?"

Why could he not speak to HIS ceo himself instead of asking Bob to

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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Post by DrammBA » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:42 PM UTC

palmotea wrote: post #9

Don't worry, I'm sure this was all an AI agent's fault, so no one to blame and all they need to do is update their code review prompts to not make mistakes.

Actually they are taking one from Anthropic's playbook and saying it's the user's fault for misunderstanding what "sharing" means.

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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Post by purplemoonx » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:43 PM UTC

mschuster91 wrote: post #61

purplemoonx wrote: post #56

It's hilarious how these companies handle security breaches. I once reported superadmin user/pass committed to github at a major YC backed background check company I worked at and everyone tried to make it seem like it was my fault . I had just started working there and found it in the first week. Anyway, had to show that it was committed by their main Staff engineer 2 years before I even worked there. For 2 years ev…

> I digress, the CTO didn't respond because he was more worried about how it would make him look. This industry is dead - the wrong people work in it. The main problem is that the IT industry for a loooooooong time "self-regulated" itself, the only areas that did have regulation had it come in externally (i.e. automotive, aeronautic, astronauts and maritime). Only in the last years, GDPR + insurances forced a bit of…

Idk licensing and regulation sounds like involving more institutional arrogance.

We effectively have that kind of gatekeeping now with the University degree and University recruiting pipelines (all other candidates are "external" and illegally deprioritized but it's somehow allowed).

The CTO shouldn't have to pay, the company should. And then maybe they will be incentivized to hire somebody who knows what they're doing.

Licensing just gatekeeps it more to even more dumbass people with connections getting good roles. It should be more merit based to avoid this kind of thing. People who have done it a thousand times should get that job, not some dumb kid who just got out of school.

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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Post by properbrew » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:44 PM UTC

wkirby wrote: post #38

I'm very intrigued by AI note takers, but I'm absolutely unwilling to expose me or my clients to this exact problem. The solution (theoretically) is a purely local note taker, but I haven't found one that's any good. Tried meetily and others in the same vein, including briefly rolling my own. The breakdown in the pipeline seems to be reliable local diarization and speaker identification; even if the transcription is…

I'm definitely biased as the developer, but maybe try https://whistle-enterprise.com and see how it works for you.

It's a hard problem I've been working away on for a while now. It's far from perfect but every step brings it a bit closer.

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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Post by newsoftheday » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:46 PM UTC

cube00 wrote: post #60

I saw an YouTuber the other day sharing their "day in the life" as an Amazon Software Engineer while promoting (as part of a paid sponsorship) the AI note taking feature of SoundCore headphones, claiming they now record their meetings and receive an AI summary at the end. I wonder how many companies realise these devices that appear as "headsets" are now funnelling their meetings into these new AI companies who are m…

Not trying to be rude or mean here but it should be, "a YouTuber" since YouTuber starts with a consonant sound.

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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Post by brohee » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:47 PM UTC

Now let's see if European users get their GDPR article 33 notification of the breach...

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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Post by Ylpertnodi » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:51 PM UTC

newsoftheday wrote: post #68

cube00 wrote: post #60

I saw an YouTuber the other day sharing their "day in the life" as an Amazon Software Engineer while promoting (as part of a paid sponsorship) the AI note taking feature of SoundCore headphones, claiming they now record their meetings and receive an AI summary at the end. I wonder how many companies realise these devices that appear as "headsets" are now funnelling their meetings into these new AI companies who are m…

Not trying to be rude or mean here but it should be, "a YouTuber" since YouTuber starts with a consonant sound.

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