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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable 5 by morpheuskafka | 1 comments on Hacker News. Fiverr (gig work/task platform, competitor to Upwork) uses a service called Cloudinary to process PDF/images in messaging, including work products from the worker to client. Besides the PDF processing value add, Cloudinary effectively acts like S3 here, serving assets directly to the web client. Like S3, it has support for signed/expiring URLs. However, Fiverr opted to use public URLs, not signed ones, for sensitive client-worker communication. Moreover, it seems like they may be serving public HTML somewhere that links to these files. As a result, hundreds are in Google search results, many containing PII. Example query: site:fiverr-res.cloudinary.com form 1040 In fact, Fiverr actively buys Google Ads for keywords like "form 1234 filing" despite knowing that it does not adequately secure the resulting work product, causing the preparer to violate the GLBA/FTC Safeguar...
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New ask Hacker News story: AI Home Architecture Startup Looking for Back End/ML Infra Engineer

AI Home Architecture Startup Looking for Back End/ML Infra Engineer 2 by AtmosXR | 3 comments on Hacker News. I run a YC company called Drafted.ai that allows people to design a house with the help of our AI. We've had 120k+ people come to the site and 20k+ signups since launching 3 months ago. We’ve raised $17M since starting the company 8 months ago, from Buckley Ventures (Josh Buckley), YC, Convective (Bill Clerico), Patrick Collison, Ben Silbermann, Jack Altman, Starship Ventures, Moses Moody, Ryan Tedder, Kevin Mahaffey, Charlie Songhurst. We are looking for a killer infrastructure/backend engineer who can help with the core product infra and model training infra. We have a major gap to fill with someone who is fast-paced, detail-oriented, and hungry to grow. The experience we are looking for: 1. Experience building and scaling GPU-based inference services, optimizing for both low latency and high resource utilization. 2. Experience with job orchestration and load balancing...
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New ask Hacker News story: Why most AI projects feel useless

Why most AI projects feel useless 4 by vaishcodescape | 2 comments on Hacker News. I don't know or if its just me but I believe that AI projects are just becoming wrappers one by one new tools pop up being similar but still get attention
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for?

Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for? 6 by bmau5 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: How many "real" high functioning autists vs. 1%ers with some attitude are there?

How many "real" high functioning autists vs. 1%ers with some attitude are there? 2 by sonicvroooom | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: On autistic spectrum, best way to live?

Ask HN: On autistic spectrum, best way to live? 3 by beaunative | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been highly logical and obsessive with reading since early childhood, and I got into programming pretty early and built Flash animation since kindergarten. I've always had issues with my peers and teachers, I got bullied quite often, and it was a source of emotional distress. I felt the constant need to work on things that intrigues me, and I'd read books like encyclopedia, I didn't know that then, but I now suspect myself to be on the spectrum. I believe many in the HN community have or suspected themselves to be on a spectrum as well? It's pretty traumatizing growing up because most other kids don't think the way you do, this usually means your teachers don't think like you as well. I used to think it's purely based on the metrics of intelligence alone, but now it seems it's more to do with being on the spectrum. If you've been on the spectrum a...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are all the bad things that AI companies have done which we forgot

Ask HN: What are all the bad things that AI companies have done which we forgot 2 by Imustaskforhelp | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was writing a comment recently when I realized just how bad the graphs in GPT 5 video are. I had almost forgotten about it. I wish to create a very minor website which can talk about all of these, I feel like there are some perverse incentives which make these companies show out the good and hide out the bad and our news cycle just keeps on moving and we all follow it. Also there can be some remarkable mentions as well which I wish to list Here are some other examples: OpenAI turning from non profit to open. Claude code software getting leaked (Anthropic) X/Grok generating non consensual deepfakes issue (XAI) OpenAI's deal with Military and backstabbing basically and now pushing for new laws. The graph thing by OpenAI being so horrendous which I mentioned earlier. Suchir balaji's death (I genuinely recommend searching this up if someone hasn...
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