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Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

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Re: Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

john_strinlai wrote: post #17
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup. The most crazy aspect was that they had bought the domain intentionally (just 1 month prior) that whole fiasco. Maybe its just (n=2) that only we both remember this fiasco but I don't agree with that. I don't really understand how this got so so many upvotes in short frame of time especially given its history of not doing good things to say the very least... I am especially skeptical of it. Thoughts? Edit: I loo…

i unfortunately dont know enough about vote patterns on hn, or what is expected/normal voting behavior. what i do know is that their name is etched into my mind under the category of "shady, never do business with them".

I was writing my initial comment and I had no mention to the voting behaviour until I accidentally reloaded or something to find the upvote rise by a decent amount. Then I got suspicious and then I reloaded again to see like in 20seconds or I was writing the comment at time of 18 upvotes and then it went to 24 upvote all of a sudden that I had gone suspicious.

see at 2026-03-10T17:38-39:00Z timeframe within this particular graph(0)

(0):https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=47326101

Re: Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

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Post by john_strinlai »

josuediaz wrote: post #23

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josuediaz registered 4 minutes ago

iharnoor 1 karma, 1 comment, in this thread.

two posts pointing out their extremely unethical spam behavior both shot down to the very bottom of the post. apparently suspicious voting behavior.

what the hell is going on?

Re: Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

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Post by coder543 »

alfanick wrote: post #9

I'm not looking for STT->AI ->TTS, I'm looking for truly good voice-to-text experience* on Linux (and others). Siri/iOS-Dictation is truly good when it comes to understanding the speech. Something this level on Linux (and others) would be great, yeah always listening, maybe sending the data somewhere, but give me UX - hidden latency, optimizing for first chars recognized - a good (virtual) input device.

> Siri/iOS-Dictation is truly good when it comes to understanding the speech.

What...? It is terrible, even compared to Whisper Tiny, which was released years ago under an Apache 2.0 license so Apple could have adopted it instantly and integrated it into their devices. The bigger Whisper models are far better, and Parakeet TDT V2 (English) / V3 (Multilingual) are quite impressive and very fast.

I have no idea what would make someone say that iOS dictation is good at understanding speech... it is so bad.

For a company that talks so much about accessibility, it is baffling to me that Apple continues to ship such poor quality speech to text with their devices.

Re: Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

john_strinlai wrote: post #24
josuediaz wrote: post #23

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josuediaz registered 4 minutes ago iharnoor 1 karma, 1 comment, in this thread. two posts pointing out their extremely unethical spam behavior both shot down to the very bottom of the post. apparently suspicious voting behavior. what the hell is going on?

Yeah I am wondering the same thing.

I was gonna comment about this guy and iharnoor which is 7 month old account who literally only said "lets go" here

This sort of makes me even more suspicious john especially iharnoor

I wasn't responding because I was making archive link of all of this so that even messages deleted can have some basis of confirmation.

Re: Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

iharnoor wrote: post #20

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This is a 7 month old account which has only responded to this particular comment.

And sorry to say but I don't think that Lets go!! is a valid comment, this makes me even more suspicious.

Especially given the history and suspicions I already had.

Re: Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

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Post by dang »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #13

I am just gonna link the stats of this hackernews post[0] and let public decide the rest because for context, this is same company which was mentioned in a blow-up post 12 days ago which had gotten 600 upvotes and they didn't respond back then[1] (I have found it hard for posts to have such a 2x factor within minutes of posting, that's just my personal observation. Usually one gets it after an hour or two or three.)…

The upvotes on the current post are fine - the reason you saw the submission rise in rank is that startup launch posts by YC startups get special placement on the front page (this is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). Not every such post does, but some do.

In other words, your perception wasn't wrong, but the interpretation was off. I've put "Launch HN" and "YC W26" back in the title to make that clearer - I edited them out earlier, which was my mistake.

As for the booster comments, those are pretty common on launch threads and often pretty innocent - most people who aren't active HN users have no idea that it's against the rules. We do our best to communicate about that, but it's not a cardinal sin—there are far worse offenses.

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