Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074473

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My point is that just because you find the success of Tailwind Labs surprising does not mean that it "shouldn't" be a multi-million dollar business. Neither you nor I get to decide that.

> Money laundering is a criminal offence by which the proceeds of criminal activities, such as fraud or bribery, are converted into assets that appear to have a legitimate origin.

Source: https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/anti-money-laundering/m...

Such a move would also presumably be incompatible with Apple's highly lucrative search engine deal with Google.

If you're more likely to be caught due to the surveillance, logic would dictate that it's the greater deterrent.

I'm unclear what you consider reasonable due diligence in this case. Should the protagonist have assumed that the gym API was unauthenticated, and that the agent would discover this?

The point is that different people have different priorities, and retiring in your mid-twenties to enjoy your many millions is a perfectly reasonable choice.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) have accused Jane Street (JS) of market manipulation, JS claims it was legitimate arbitrage, and the case is still ongoing [1].

As I understand it, the ban only applied to Indian securities (not Asian markets as a whole), and was lifted back in July 2025 after JS paid ~$560 million (the alleged ill-gotten gains) into an escrow fund. They don't appear to have resumed trading, though [2].

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-trading-firm-jan...

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

The original comment states that the person in question already had a suitable graphics card to hand, so it did not require a monetary investment.

GP clearly states that "someone who is into that that stuff" was guiding the process, so it did not require a significant time investment.

> I'm particularly calling out the hypocrisy of the original comment. Being Anti-AI, and then spending hours on setting up a less than frontier AI model.

I see no hypocrisy in the original comment.

You've also assumed the skeptic in question doubts the capabilities of AI. That may be the case (like you, I have no idea), but they may also have privacy concerns, in which case a local model is the appropriate choice.

There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of AI.

It's quite clear that the author means AI writing is now good enough to cause confusion and speculation as to whether a given piece of writing was human-authored.

The confusion and speculation caused by your nude transit adventure is about what the hell you're doing and why.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-flash

> Thrive is an American venture capital firm founded by Joshua Kushner - the brother of US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5y67zrrdddo

It's easy to do the right thing if you use the right tools, as they were designed to be used.

It's incredibly difficult to do the right thing if you insist on using the one hammer in your toolbox.

If you want to move the goalposts to suit your argument, go right ahead; I won't be participating.