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Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves.
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Or like someone in Hacker News comm suggested, use this to track a US Senator for 24 hours, make it all public, then see if they're still OK with this...
They'll just make it illegal for just them. Like the Internet privacy
Hacker News Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355548
Without the ycombinator
https://www.hckrnws.com/stories/46355548
That's the first I've seen a HN web client. Why does it exist, and what's the reason against linking directly to Y Combinator?
Ycombinator is the Thiel funded Altman led cancer VC that originated the surveillance capitalism ~~neonazi~~ techbro situation we have today. It spearheaded the death of US democracy.
Peter Thiel invested in Flock through Y Combinator
YCombinator is a VC fund trying to pretend like they're hacker(tinkering) friendly community, when their business model is boosting their own companies/startups. And companies aren't hitting those profits with people tinkering.
https://soatok.blog/2025/12/17/the-revolution-will-not-make-the-hacker-news-front-page/
In all, that doesn't align with the hacker ethos. They're just capitalizing on what it stands for with a lot of techbro hubris.
The first step of limiting their influence is using a different opensource frontend.
https://github.com/rajatkulkarni95/hckrnws
Fuck "Hacker News", the people that hang around there are in major ways responsible for the shitty state the internet -and the world- is in now.
How so? HN is literally the only forum I know of which doesn't require email to regsiter an account and has a free, publicly accessible API.
Look at the people who hang around there.
Do a SCROTUM and find out of they’re still sending people to SECOT.
I feel like this is being done now but by the 'adversaries' that would love to keep the vulnerabilities a secret they can exploit later.
Often the case, yep.
Might as well use it to track ICE
This is the way.