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Hi HN,I recently noticed that an YC company (Run ANywhere, W26) sent me the following email:From: Aditya &lt;aditya@buildrunanywhere.org&gt;Subject: Mikołaj, think you&#x27;d like this[snip]Hi Mikołaj,I found your GitHub and thought you might like what we&#x27;re building.[snip]I have also received a deluge of similar emails from another AI company, Voice.AI (doesn&#x27;t seem to be YC affiliated). These emails indicate that those companies scrape people&#x27;s Github activity, and if they notice users contributing to repos in their field of business, send marketing emails to those users without receiving their consent. My guess is that they use commit metadata for this purpose. This includes recipients under the GDPR (AKA me).I&#x27;ve sent complaints to both organizations, no response so far.I have just contacted both Github and YC Ethics on this issue, I&#x27;ll update here if I get a response.

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Hacker Smacker adds friend&#x2F;foe functionality to Hacker News. Three little orbs appear next to every commenter&#x27;s name. Click to friend or foe a commenter and you&#x27;ll more easily spot them on future threads. Makes it easy to scroll and spot the commenters you love to read (and hate to read).Main website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackersmacker.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackersmacker.org</a>Chrome&#x2F;Edge extension: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromewebstore.google.com&#x2F;detail&#x2F;hacker-smacker&#x2F;lmcglejmapenkiabndkcnahfkmbohmhd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromewebstore.google.com&#x2F;detail&#x2F;hacker-smacker&#x2F;lmcg...</a>
Safari extension: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;hacker-smacker&#x2F;id1480749725">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;hacker-smacker&#x2F;id1480749725</a>
Firefox extension: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;hacker-smacker&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;hacker-smacke...</a>The interesting part is friend-of-a-friend: if you friend someone who also uses Hacker Smacker, you&#x27;ll see their friends and foes highlighted too. This lets you quickly scan long comment threads and find the good stuff based on people you trust.I built this to learn how FoaF relationships work with Redis sets, then brought the same technique to NewsBlur&#x27;s social layer. The backend is CoffeeScript&#x2F;Node.js&#x2F;Redis, and the extension works on Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari.Technically I wrote this back in 2011, but never built a proper auth system until now. So I&#x27;ve been using it for 15 years and it&#x27;s been great. PG once saw it on my laptop (back when he was still moderating HN, in 2012) and remarked that it was neat.Thanks to Mihai Parparita for help with the Chrome extension sandboxing and Greg Brockman for helping design the authentication system.Source is on GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;samuelclay&#x2F;hackersmacker" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;samuelclay&#x2F;hackersmacker</a>Directly inspired by Slashdot&#x27;s friend&#x2F;foe system, which I always wished HN had. Happy to answer questions!

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