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Re:Show HN: HN Watercooler – listen to HN threads as an audi... by sebastiennight on Thursday April 17, 2025 @03:54PM (#43721419)
Hmmm this personal non-profit project is not endorsed or owned by my company at all, so you should rather reach me individually if you have comments regarding it, but otherwise if you have any official communication to send to OneTake Pte Ltd (the company), then yes, that's a valid email.

May I ask why though? It seems oddly off-topic.

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Re:Show HN: HN Watercooler – listen to HN threads as an audi... by throwanem on Thursday April 17, 2025 @03:56PM (#43721455)
You have no license to my likeness however inaccurately or dishonestly represented for this derivative use, in your marketing, of my original work in the form of years of HN comments. I hope you and OneTake are prepared to demonstrate the degree of separation you claim.

Thank you for identifying the entity. I'll consult with my representative at first opportunity.

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Re:Show HN: HN Watercooler – listen to HN threads as an audi... by garbagewoman on Thursday April 17, 2025 @04:08PM (#43721626)
How can he know which is your real account though? I guess you’ll have to post under your real name
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Re:Show HN: HN Watercooler – listen to HN threads as an audi... by skywal_l on Thursday April 17, 2025 @04:04PM (#43721558)
When you post on HN it becomes public data. Are you going to sue antirez too about his post earlier today on word similarity analysis?
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Re:Show HN: HN Watercooler – listen to HN threads as an audi... by throwaway150 on Thursday April 17, 2025 @04:09PM (#43721636)
> When you post on HN it becomes public data.

Sure but the public data is still protected by copyright laws. That's why journalists cannot reproduce your blog post verbatim or take your photos and use them in their articles without your explicit permission unless you've released your articles or photos under a Creative Commons license.

Don't get me wrong! I do think that this whole thread is a massive overreaction. A judge might even see this use of data as "fair use". I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. But I do know that "public data" != "can do whatever you want with it".

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Re:Show HN: HN Watercooler – listen to HN threads as an audi... by gre on Thursday April 17, 2025 @04:57PM (#43722131)
What's the difference between a screen reader and this guys show hn script? If he were releasing it as a paid podcast feed or something I might take offense, but it seems just like a screen reader to me that blind people might use.

Just curious!

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