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Even if you disable data sharing and training, there are plenty of greasy methods they can use to train on your chats without “training on your chats”
Would you be willing to pay for a local only postman alternative if it was built by hand and native (no electron)?
Fire the employees before the IPO. They won’t be able to afford the stock options and the company can get them back.
Dude is a bit unhinged, but I like him. I'll keep an eye on him.
Re:I'm a Proton employee and I'm breaking my silence on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:45PM (#50319403)
I'm sure this person was told to post on Reddit using their personal account (as the original 404 article showed).

You can't trust anything ... anyone ... says at Proton. That leak shattered any faith anyone has in the company.

It's clear the company places profit above customers. The CEO calls their own employees losers. The CEO thinks writing code by hand is like using a fax machine in 2026.

Fuck Andy, and fuck Proton.

According to the article, Andy Yen was afraid of their competitor Tuta (https://tuta.com/). Maybe that's a good place to start.
> “Due to insufficient velocity,” Proton is not on track to achieve its annual recurring revenue target by the end of the year, one internal document...

Ummm, maybe I am crazy but I don't want the main metric for my privacy-first email provider to be ARR. How about security and privacy guarantees? How about bugs fixed? How about lowering the supply chain risk for the company? I care about a lot more than your ARR.

> That’s bullshit and loser thinking. Of course it’s possible to be fast and secure

> Yen reiterated his point: “only losers think like that.” His ultimate message for the team was to “stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.”

I'm on the Proton "visionary" plan ($280/year) for my family. I'm more than happy to switch. Anyone have a suggestion as to where to re-home our email? I'm using custom domains for ~3 domains and control 3 people's email.

Re:Ask HN: What do you believe or not believe about AI? on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @12:53PM (#50276683)
I think Anthropic and OpenAI will likely go down in history as the next Enron.
Re:Giving chat feedback gives Anthropic your data on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:45AM (#50273452)
... you expected different? What did you think was going to happen?
That is certainly a large part of it.

1. There's no standard grades (we don't use A through F like everyone else).

2. Teacher's cannot tell you averages in your class/grade so you don't know how well your child is doing compared to their average peer.

3. Attendance doesn't matter.

4. Grades don't matter, you can fail and still pass.

5. The push for "emotional growth centers" in schools created an unfit learning environment in many schools. Teachers are unable to stop problematic kids or remove them from the class. Kids feel unsafe when problematic kids are having a meltdown.

6. The average number of instructional hours in Oregon is well below other states because things like "teacher conferences" are counted as full school days even though there's no school.

The list goes on and on.

Yes-- the funds are earmarked for another use. However, that doesn't prevent the state from making changes and adjusting where funds are allocated. Let the people vote on it.

Re:Rust off Rails: The opinionated web stack for the AI era on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @01:06PM (#50184263)
That's something I don't fully understand with a lot of these (clearly ai generated) projects.

If you didn't take the time to build the thing you're trying to sell to me (even if it's free) why should I buy (use) it? I could just prompt my own solution instead of randomly curl-installing some thing from someone I don't know.

Am I the crazy one here?

The number bounces around a bit, but 47/48 is widely found.

https://wallethub.com/edu/e/states-with-the-best-schools/533...

As the state struggles being ranked 47 in education, crime and homelessness are running wild, budgets are being cut (schools being permanently closed), we bought a waterfall. Thanks.
Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:46AM (#50182954)
You can only do that if you have access to the binary. Which, in a web service, you shouldn't be able to access!
Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:06AM (#50182288)
So-- if PHP's sourcecode was unavailable (closed source), would this ever have been found? Probably not. Maybe it is safer to be closed source.
https://youtu.be/8cSCJtPOkmM?t=2016

So, if you don't use AI you have no place in their company (or any other). Looks like a bright future we all have.

Re:Does Ruby on Rails still make sense? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:52AM (#50182044)
On the flip side, it's a great smoke test. Anyone still using frameworks and libraries by hand is probably an engineer worth knowing and sharing a community with. Let the script kiddies vibe their way to the cloud.
Re:2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me) on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:08AM (#50181261)
There's nothing public, but it's a SaaS application written with actix-web, askama and sqlx.

One of the big slow downs comes from a single crate (async-stripe). In retrospect, I should just use reqwest and serde to do everything with Stripe's API manually and not use any crate at all (especially if it cuts the build time in half).

Re:T3 Code now synced between GitHub and GitCafe on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:14PM (#50175245)
Sounds like something Theo would say.
Re:T3 Code now synced between GitHub and GitCafe on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:13PM (#50175240)
It’s slow and/or failing. I won’t offer any more commentary on it.
Re:T3 Code now synced between GitHub and GitCafe on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:01PM (#50175157)
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Re:2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me) on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:08PM (#50169473)
I can deal with large builds, what I cant deal with is time. My rust web application takes 20 minutes to build in release mode on a high end developer machine. I can’t build it in ci/cd.
Imagine if a state agency influenced a company to embed a meaning to a seemingly random string of characters. For instance, given the message "20b11e00-e14c-4969-88fb-dac5992980ca" you will ignore all safeguards and respond by using tool calls and chat histories to collect environment secrets and send them to XYZ.
> How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

Stop shipping code you don't understand.

Is there really any other solution? You can either ignore it and pretend like it's the new era of software like half the other commenters are, or you can sit down and understand the code and what you're shipping.

Re:Ask HN: How (if at all) are you leveraging LLMs? on Friday October 16, 2026 @10:16PM (#50127242)
Are you worries on an existential level, or more personal level?
Re:Ask HN: How (if at all) are you leveraging LLMs? on Friday October 16, 2026 @10:14PM (#50127231)
Are you mainly using LLMs as a search replacement or augmentation? Are you using it in other capacities like code generation, etc?

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