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New comment by buttsack in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

buttsack — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:14:20 +0000

It's also in the original post. Greptile, HockeyStack, and others from that cohort of 20-year old founders out of YC were having software engineer candidates come in day-in and day-out, staying until 9PM under the threat of being rejected if they left earlier.

They were not paid at all, they were working long-term on a "trial period". And yes it's very illegal. I was there and saw it first-hand.

The guys they had on trial periods - though I'm sure they were very intelligent - were not really firing on all cylinders if you know what I mean.

New comment by buttsack in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

buttsack — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:45:57 +0000

It says right there, 7-day work weeks (no days off).

Also they were part of the cohort forcing workers to stay minimum until 9PM.

Like every AI company, their "product" is a Next.js website, OPENAI_API_KEY, and a Stripe checkout page.

New comment by buttsack in "Node.js needs a virtual file system"

buttsack — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:58:59 +0000

When npm decided to have per-project node_modules (rather than shared like ruby and others) and human readable configs and library files I think the goal was to be a developer friendly and highly configurable, which it is. And package.json became a lot more than that as a result, it’s been a great system IMO.

Combined with a hackable IDE like Atom (Pulsar) made with the same tech it’s a pretty great dev exp for web devs

New comment by buttsack in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

buttsack — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:07:11 +0000

The fuck are you on about? Pretty sure most niche places like Iceland or Costa Rica are not doing this, and every government on earth thinks of war as passe.

Only defense companies who profit and religious fucking idiots like you think war is some necessary thing.