People begging YC to "do the right thing" don't understand that this is the exact behavior that VCs love and reward.
yes, they prefer iconoclasts
My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
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Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#452An app which is build for cheating complains about cheating ...
It wouldn't matter if they wrote a program to automate stealing other people's content. If you strip a GPL license off a program you redistribute, you're breaking the law.
Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#453What a joke. Nearly as many upvotes as tmux-rs in half the time, ~50% more comments, and this is just shy of the front page / twice as far from #1. Doesn’t seem to match the natural algorithm.
If anything, the statistics actually suggest these articles were weighted the other way around. tmux-rs stayed on the frontpage much longer than it logically should have, especially compared to this thread.
https://hnrankings.info/44455787/
https://hnrankings.info/44460552/
...in any case, what's the "joke" about this? GPL violation is very serious, Tesla was forced to publish a substantial amount of proprietary code after a similar infraction.
Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#454Couldn't have happened to a nicer project.
Those are some awfully tall words from a guy who wants to sell lawyers a whitelabel Monaco editor.
Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#455What a joke. Nearly as many upvotes as tmux-rs in half the time, ~50% more comments, and this is just shy of the front page / twice as far from #1. Doesn’t seem to match the natural algorithm.
My observation is that HN intentionally downranks highly commented threads. I used to think of it as unfair, but now it truly makes sense, considering:
- Posts with high comment-to-vote ratio often have political, scandalous or other kinds of heated themes
- Highly popular/engaging posts already act as self-amplifying snowballs
- High-volume discussion triggered by emotions is hard to navigate, is repetitive, and attracts the dumbest trolls even in HN
- The truly important topics tend to become visible anyway
Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#456I've had similar happen to me by company out of Paris, France lol. They yoinked the backend out of my OSINTBuddy project which is AGPL licensed then tried to get me to work with them where they were going to sell access without also providing the source code
Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#457Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, most VC founders on twitter are annoying and not worth following anymore. It used to be inspiring to follow some of them many years ago, see them build a cool product and sharing learnings. Now it's all just promotion, straight up lies, and their personal brand comes across as more important than actually building something. The "learnings" shared are now more tailored to go viral than actually help others etc.
Because I loath Nouning Verbs and Verbing Nouns, I'd really like "learnings" to always have an implied or explicit set of quotes and mean vaguely defined and not necessarily ethical stuff. There's a perfectly good noun, "lessons" and a verb, "to learn" that, when combined, provide everything "learnings" does, without the pretension of using a verbed noun. It's like "diarize" and other even worse monstrosities. Sorry…
As you might guess from my language, I'm not a native speaker. And in Norwegian, the two words could be "å lære" and "lærdom", hence why it "sounds right" in my ear to use learn and learnings.
Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#458Hi everyone, this is Daniel from the Pickle team. Glass is a new open source project from us that we plan to build on and improve. We built several original features for it like live summaries, real-time STT Transcript and one-click "Ask" from summary that we're very excited about. However in initially building it we included code from a GPL-licensed project that we incorrectly attributed as Apache. This was incorrec…
Credit the original creator as a consultant and give him equity
Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#459Earlier quoted context omitted.
you're conflating (obfuscating?) honest oversights with what seems to be a clearly and intentionally dishonest series of actions
No I'm not. I'm not saying there should never be any consequences. But there should be a way to make things right again, even if you did it on purpose.
Well, thus far they've only made things worse by trying to bullshit their way out of it, and not tried to "make it right" in any sense.
I hope the strongest appropriate consequences for this come their way, though likely nothing will happen.
Meanwhile you're just trying to handwave it all away
Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#460Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not the developer, but here is his repo: https://github.com/sohzm/cheating-daddy
As an interviewer, I'm seeing a huge increase in proportion of candidates cheating surreptitiously during video interviews. And it's becoming difficult to suspect any wrong-doing unless you're very watchful by looking for academic responses to questions. Why would anyone encourage building such a tool, I can't fathom.
Get ready to start having some fun in your interviews. Start including things like redirection of focus through general statements, unrelated (and false) trivia, and misleading suggestions in your interview questions. Most of the humans you'd like to hire will ignore those or ask you about them.
Many LLMs will be derailed into giving entertainingly wrong answers: