72 pointsby nasaok10 hours ago7 comments
  • GaryBluto30 minutes ago
    How inspiring. In a war torn country, a man perseveres and continues making the internet worse.

    The founder's LinkedIn describes his job as "Automating phones for you - Dead internet as a service", and also has a post where he proudly states that this post was "banned on Hacker News", so I don't doubt that he's abusing the phones here too.

    It isn't a click farm, it's a bot farm.

  • sheepscreek3 hours ago
    > Large grocery stores and apartment buildings use big generators, they are the size of a car and way quieter than small generators.

    Many industrial generators are enclosed in a box that absorbs most of the noise, unlike the smaller ones.

  • sriacha2 hours ago
    Has there been any significant use of decentralized mesh communication networks in Ukraine in the last years?
    • gotts2 hours ago
      To limited extend by Ukrainian army, more like a fallback method if something happens to Startlink. Mesh networks are getting used more and more by Russian army for coordinating drone attacks and surveillance - they use Chinese modems e.g. 70M-6Ghz/Uper C-X-Ku).
  • mmastrac9 hours ago
    "We now continue to work as before, getting social media engagement for us and our clients, applying to YC 2026 and other VCs."

    Ehh, so this is a click farm?

    • snakeboy9 hours ago
      At this point, is the most "effective ethical" career path for a software developer to work on LLMs to flood social media and ad-clicks to speedrun the collapse of digital marketing? And thus freeing competent but money-driven software engineers to work on something else?
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    • chrisandchris9 hours ago
      > We help startups get attention with automated social media marketing on physical phones.
    • dansmith19199 hours ago
      Yeah now we know why it’s on the front page not even 10 minutes after posting…
    • breppp9 hours ago
      Combining what Ukraine is known for, kicking Russian ass and creating shady software
    • xnx2 hours ago
      With only 60 phones, this is like a click homestead.
    • mbreese9 hours ago
      > Your own army of physical phones in just a few clicks

      From a project page linked from the original post.

    • antoniojtorres9 hours ago
      What a rollercoaster to arrive at that in the end
    • Nextgrid9 hours ago
      Click farms effectively function as janitors, mopping up spam someone else paid to throw so that no real user stumbles upon it, so they are beneficial.
    • smikhanov9 hours ago
      Yes
    • liquidise9 hours ago
      "I saw the best minds of my generation..."
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  • fennec-posix9 hours ago
    I love the ingenuity of this, truly in the hacker spirit! I also lol'd at how fast this got onto the FP given what these guys do, jolly good show gents! Well Played.
  • JawsofDeath9 hours ago
    Слава Україні!
  • IshKebab9 hours ago
    > There even was an official program to replace your old lightbulb for a new LED one for free

    Wow do they still have incandescent lightbulbs? Mental.