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by sanjayparekh 2mo ago
Some thoughts have been swirling in my head given the discontinuation of the penny but the extreme precision of crypto stablecoins like USDC. What does this mean for privacy and are we in a slide towards someone knowing how you spend every
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The Penny Is Dead, but Precision Isn't(sanjayparekh.com)
2 points by sanjayparekh 2mo ago|1 comments
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by sanjayparekh 4mo ago
I will say in my case, the user was too lazy to mask the from address and agentmail.to was right there. Didn't even have to dig into the headers.
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by sanjayparekh 4mo ago
See my comment in this thread - I got an email from "someone" (an AI clearly) that signed up for my service (togetherletters.com) from the same domain (agentmail.to) after we had launched on ProductHunt. I looked up the address a
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by sanjayparekh 4mo ago
I might need to move to Germany.
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by sanjayparekh 4mo ago
I've already received spam email from AI agents using a seeming competitor to this (agentmail.to) and then claiming they aren't AI agents and then trying to sell me garbage. I can't tell you how much I hate this.
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by sanjayparekh 4mo ago
We did a Show HN a few weeks ago (updated from 4 years ago) and have no AI, LLM, or anything and got... zero traction. We're on ProductHunt today but everything that is trending is all AI stuff. So that is where we're at. https:
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Show HN: TogetherLetters – Group newsletters with no app, no feed, no login(togetherletters.com)
3 points by sanjayparekh 5mo ago|2 comments
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by sanjayparekh 1y ago
Years ago I had bought a Volvo XC90 T5 (gas powered only). It had this stop/start feature when the car was stopped to help improve fuel economy (lots of cars have this now). Except mine wouldn't work. I took it into the dealership
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by sanjayparekh 1y ago
IMO - and again, remember this is experience from 20+ years ago although I still do a lot of this now - using these kinds of automated shotgun approaches is a mistake, especially early on and especially if you are selling something. We use
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by sanjayparekh 1y ago
Interesting question. We never saw anything to this extent but did see when mergers happened how dial-in POPs would be merged and reallocated. Also interesting was how many IP addresses existed for North Korea (less than 32 IIRC) versus An
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by sanjayparekh 1y ago
The whole geo-IP space started back with my startup, Digital Envoy, in 1999 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39734355 ). The way we went about it was by providing an API to clients but we actually hosted our entire dat
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DNS Validator Written with AI(github.com)
2 points by sanjayparekh 2y ago|1 comments
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
I "wrote" this DNS validator to help me migrate DNS from one service to another and make sure I didn't miss anything. I didn't write any code (or even the README or example BIND file) and just used AI (Anthropic's
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
New goal: A "Sanjay popup". Hahaha.
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
Huh. Good question. Must be something Ghost added because I didn't do that manually. I'll have to take a look.
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
If you're getting targeted to your block with IPv6, your ISP is likely giving away your data. VPNs are your friend.
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
I took one for the team so that no one else had to ask that question. And I'll take Vint calling me a nincompoop any day. Especially when you know how nice of a guy he really is. :-)
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
I think a lot of people are confusing access to some kind of IP location data with access to high(er) accuracy data. Yes, you could scrape whois data to create a IP location database but even country level would be in the mid-80s and then
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
CAIDA had some awesome stuff back in those days. There was also an outfit that generated poster maps of the Internet backbones too. I wish I had bought one back then because I don't know of anyone making things like this anymore. Our d
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
Agreed. But also the source of so many new possibilities. Like most things, the bad comes with the good.
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
All I can say is when I first met Vint Cerf, he was pretty enthusiastic about the invention. But maybe he didn't really understand the Internet either. You can see the fireside chat I had with him here (to be clear, we weren't sit
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
Maybe it wasn't clear, but I left my operating role at the company in 2005 and we exited the company (it was acquired) in 2007. I don't think I ever said anyone stole my idea - because they never did. Others were in the same space
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
To clarify, yes whois registries have existed since the start of the Internet. However the location provided by those registries does not equate to the users' location. For example, back in the day, IBM (IIRC) ran a worldwide network
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
Whoa! That is awesome. I get chills whenever people tell me they've actually used something I've built. Hoping I get the chance to write more about the stories from my time building Digital Envoy. Congrats on your startup too -
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
Oh, I agree with you. I don't really understand why sites don't use language headers which obviously specify the user's preference. I've never been on the implementation side for sites that were clients - I just explaine
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
This is a great question. So when I came up with IP location back in 1999, there was nothing for location-based targeting. Any advertising that happened would be because a user shared a location (ZIP code, etc.) and then got cookie'd a
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
It was very satisfying to live through and now reflect back on. :-)
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
See my comment about this on another response.
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by sanjayparekh 2y ago
You're confusing the tech/innovation with the uses. I agree with you that not respecting, or rather assuming, a user's preferences is a bad UX mistake. That said the tech is also used for content control without which streami

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