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New comment by scaredpelican in "Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine"

scaredpelican — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:56:37 +0000

How does this only have a single star.

This is genuinely mind blowing.

Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine

scaredpelican — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:56:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/gainsec/autoprober

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800033

Points: 225

# Comments: 46

New comment by scaredpelican in "Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors"

scaredpelican — Thu, 08 May 2025 22:06:37 +0000

This is so so bad.

Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations

scaredpelican — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:24:28 +0000

Earlier today Cursor, the magical AI-powered IDE started kicking users off when they logged in from multiple machines.

Like,you’d be working on your desktop, switch to your laptop, and all of a sudden you're forcibly logged out. No warning, no notification, just gone.

Naturally, people thought this was a new policy.

So they asked support.

And here’s where it gets batshit: Cursor has a support email, so users emailed them to find out. The support peson told everyone this was “expected behavior” under their new login policy.

One problem. There was no support team, it was an AI designed to 'mimic human responses'

That answer, totally made up by the bot, spread like wildfire.

Users assumed it was real (because why wouldn’t they? It's their own support system lol), and within hours the community was in revolt. Dozens of users publicly canceled their subscriptions, myself included. Multi-device workflows are table stakes for devs, and if you're going to pull something that disruptive, you'd at least expect a changelog entry or smth.

Nope.

And just as people started comparing notes and figuring out that the story didn’t quite add up… the main Reddit thread got locked. Then deleted. Like, no public resolution, no real response, just silence.

To be clear: this wasn’t an actual policy change, just a backend session bug, and a hallucinated excuse from a support bot that somehow did more damage than the bug itself.

But at that point, it didn’t matter. People were already gone.

Honestly one of the most surreal product screwups I’ve seen in a while. Not because they made a mistake, but because the AI support system invented a lie, and nobody caught it until the userbase imploded.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683012

Points: 1511

# Comments: 606

New comment by scaredpelican in "Spotify Mysteriously Bans Support from Discussing LGBT Artist with Manager"

scaredpelican — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 22:33:23 +0000

Spotify Artists Support have removed the artist, and all collaborating artists in the last few weeks, and none of the affected parties are able to get any clarity as to why.

When approached about it, all Spotify agents immediately disconnect. No answers thusfar.

Spotify Mysteriously Bans Support from Discussing LGBT Artist with Manager

scaredpelican — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 22:33:23 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/b0ysim/status/1641159920941686784

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35364816

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by scaredpelican in "Show HN: Screen – screen sharing for remote work, by the cofounder of Screenhero"

scaredpelican — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:19:06 +0000

Real talk, tho. I'd sell a kidney and pay whatever you ask if it could suport pen pressure from the Windows Ink API.

New comment by scaredpelican in "Show HN: Screen – screen sharing for remote work, by the cofounder of Screenhero"

scaredpelican — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 17:30:05 +0000

I love this idea, this is a wonderful thing you're doing. Really clean design, great featureset. I genuinely think it has the potential to be a powerhouse.

I think it's perfect for businesses, and large companies, but might not be something suited towards somebody like me.

TeamViewer is the current tool of choice as I do volunteer work remote-teaching art to students and I'd just be a little worried about migrating everything over while it's free, only to suddenly not be able to afford it.

This is of course no fault on your end, and I just think while this is aimed at a certain demographic, others might be more suited to working elsewhere as 'Free' and 'Free for a period of time until we decide to start charging' is a little intimidating.

Brilliant program, brilliant work, and I wish you the absolute best of luck <3