I don't trust any closed source code from an Israeli, Russian or Chinese company. And I'm starting to have serious doubts about America too. There's just too much influence from secret services, government interests and big tech/surveillance advertising connections.
Secure Enterprise Browsers are legal across Europe. In fact, most of European corporates, governments, and even the EU uses them as well as runtime agents to protect employee systems and prevent data exfiltration.
Only on HN are people allowed to make these types of tongue-in-cheek anti-Semitic comments of the type you're responding to - while simultaneously attacking any other perceived form of racism/sexism. Somehow attaching random Jews to Israel is considered entirely okay in the hive mind here. I see it a lot in the more controversial popular posts that get posted.
Don't feed the trolls. This is how burner accounts are laundered into "normal" HN accounts.
Notice how the most virulent accounts on HN from any side are all post-2023 accounts with low karma, almost no submissions, and almost exclusively comment on political and non-technical topics.
Why are burner accounts writing all these anti Israel things? or tying wink wink Jews to big tech or defense or other things in a wink wink fashion?
Is it Russian bots on HN? Progressive political groups thinking they are helping Palestinians?
Is it humans from Reddit that came in through the HN Sub?
My hunch is HN got hit by a couple coordinated and ongoing info ops. I've noticed a couple topics and clusters that automatically gather the same users and a sudden cluster of young low karma accounts. It's not just Israel-Palestine or Iran, but also anything Russia-Ukraine, US elections, or China related.
Despite what the moderators say, their moderation hasn't kept pace with LOTL accounts and other HN account reselling platforms.
At some point this will blow back on YCombinator, especially because my understanding is that YCombinator treats all posts on HN as YC's IP.
That said, I also know two fairly prominent founders who are also fairly active HNers who felt social media activism (especially on HN) would help drive their message. One of them founded a fairly prominent DevOps company.
The silver lining is that HN doesn't actually matter to most people in the industry. It's become an inside joke at my fund to call a pitch or idea "HN worthy". Most younger (below 35) techies don't use HN and most older techies don't either.
Increasingly the mindshare and usage on HN is largely outside of the US, with most activity occuring outside normal US hours (3am-9am PST).
I don't trust any closed source code from an Israeli, Russian or Chinese company. And I'm starting to have serious doubts about America too. There's just too much influence from secret services, government interests and big tech/surveillance advertising connections.
They sell a browser for entreprise that spies on employees. This is illegal in europe
Secure Enterprise Browsers are legal across Europe. In fact, most of European corporates, governments, and even the EU uses them as well as runtime agents to protect employee systems and prevent data exfiltration.
Damn so if you slap the word “Israeli” on a genuinely useless product a bunch of evil old people will give you 6 billion dollars
I'm sorry but in WHAT GODDAMN WORLD does that technology justify billions of dollars of value.
I would give them a good 50mil valuation.
Seven
Goddamn
Billion
Dollars
Seriously a lot of people have to be on acid, and I think it's the really good kind and I would like some please
Governments spend a lot on spyware.
Most enterprises use Island - it's the Wiz of the secure enterprise browser space.
LOL sure. Ridiculous.
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Israel + U.S. + cybersecurity.
What could possibly go wrong? /s
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> Russian-Israeli
What? That's ridiculous!
> Google
> Sergey Brin
> Larry Page
Oh, ah
Being Jewish doesn't make someone Israeli.
Larry Page is not Israeli. This is true!
But he is only one aliyah away from full citizenship. He has simply not opted-in yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return
Larry’s grandfather made aliyah and dwelt there in the Holy Land. Sergei has exactly the same opportunity.
You could too, alephnerd!
Only on HN are people allowed to make these types of tongue-in-cheek anti-Semitic comments of the type you're responding to - while simultaneously attacking any other perceived form of racism/sexism. Somehow attaching random Jews to Israel is considered entirely okay in the hive mind here. I see it a lot in the more controversial popular posts that get posted.
Google is a massive spy apparatus that has ties to Israel. Not tongue in cheek, and not anti semitic.
Attack the argument, not the individual.
What's "ties to Israel" to you?
Things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nimbus but the rabbit hole goes deeper.
Don't feed the trolls. This is how burner accounts are laundered into "normal" HN accounts.
Notice how the most virulent accounts on HN from any side are all post-2023 accounts with low karma, almost no submissions, and almost exclusively comment on political and non-technical topics.
Why are burner accounts writing all these anti Israel things? or tying wink wink Jews to big tech or defense or other things in a wink wink fashion? Is it Russian bots on HN? Progressive political groups thinking they are helping Palestinians? Is it humans from Reddit that came in through the HN Sub?
My hunch is HN got hit by a couple coordinated and ongoing info ops. I've noticed a couple topics and clusters that automatically gather the same users and a sudden cluster of young low karma accounts. It's not just Israel-Palestine or Iran, but also anything Russia-Ukraine, US elections, or China related.
Despite what the moderators say, their moderation hasn't kept pace with LOTL accounts and other HN account reselling platforms.
At some point this will blow back on YCombinator, especially because my understanding is that YCombinator treats all posts on HN as YC's IP.
That said, I also know two fairly prominent founders who are also fairly active HNers who felt social media activism (especially on HN) would help drive their message. One of them founded a fairly prominent DevOps company.
The silver lining is that HN doesn't actually matter to most people in the industry. It's become an inside joke at my fund to call a pitch or idea "HN worthy". Most younger (below 35) techies don't use HN and most older techies don't either.
Increasingly the mindshare and usage on HN is largely outside of the US, with most activity occuring outside normal US hours (3am-9am PST).
So is it coordinated or does no one care about HN? I can’t determine what you’re saying.
Mossad stays winning.
Any organization trusting Israeli enterprise software had might as well open up an engineering center in Pyongyang.
Hope you don't use the Pi harness and their soon to be released enterprise offerings
They refuse to close a major security gap, unclear if it is incompetence or malice