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OtherShrezzingtoday at 7:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

Am I misreading this, or is ycombinator running a tool that transfers IP from an applicant’s machine to OpenAI and then transfers the generated summaries into their own servers. And that tool has some “webapp security 101” level vulnerability in it.

Feels like a disaster waiting to happen.


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tomhowtoday at 7:22 PM

It doesn’t upload code (it’s not meant to, anyway); it uploads coding agent transcripts. It’s meant to be a fun app like Spotify wrapped - that’s how it was described when presented internally.

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boomskatstoday at 7:22 PM

Maybe this is another one of Garry's 30k LOC/day vibecode specials that he's so proud of