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> corrupt criminals and mafia types who have a need to covertly hide cash

You're describing the people that use actual cash to launder and hide, well, cash, and that have done so for centuries, long before crypto had even been invented.

A few web searches on <big bank name> + "money laundering scandal" (e.g. "HSBC money laundering scandal") can offer valuable insights.

As left-leaning as Twitch streamers driving luxury German cars but preaching Marxism.

I second that. This website, including its look and layout, appears to be a copy of some more prominent indieweb ones that have been frequently featured here, filled with what seems to be almost entirely copied and/or LLM generated content.

This is impressive. I'd also like to add that the Beechcraft Super King Air is a beautiful aircraft.

I generally agree with the author, however, there are a handful of relatively prominent, recent examples (eg [1]) that many admins might find scary enough to prefer a hosted solution.

[1]: https://matrix.org/blog/2025/07/postgres-corruption-postmort...

You are right with that you say about the "29 of the 145 comments being from just one user", in the post that you linked.

However, the complaint the author made was not related to the post that you linked. The flagging and unflagging occurred on this post [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45667615

Doesn't mean that the author might not use AI to optimise legibility. You can write stuff yourself and use an LLM to enhance the reading flow. Especially for non-native speakers it is immensely helpful to do so. Doesn't mean that the content is "AI-generated". The essence is still written by a human.

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> ... showcased a similar use of the sandbox, sharing a screenshot of their friend successfully passing Reddit's face verification using a GMod model of what appears to be Zbigniew Stolarski from Arma III

I applaud this, it seems like the 90s rebellious internet behavior that brought us eMule and Bittorrent isn't dead. It is beautiful to see people literally gaming a stupid system to get back the internet they desire.

Unfortunately they won't as it appears to be a mindset thing of especially central Europe to be anti-AC (with the exception of cars).

Why do you waste everybody's time with your comment when you very very clearly only read the first few paragraphs and didn't even think of scrolling down to where it says "Conclusion", in which the author clearly makes a completely different point that has nothing to do with search result quality.

Love the site, unfortunately it fails to deliver on its primary promise: I don't remember any dating site in 1999 asking for your networth.

PS: Doesn't work without JavaScript on, which is another deal-breaker for 1999 me.

For 2025 they have received...

> - 2025: $30,665.41

Which translates to roughly $2,500 per month.

> We are currently spending $53.53/month on our services.

... and now they ask for ...

> we need $5,800/month in recurring donations to fund full-time Accrescent development

Sorry, but this doesn't make much sense considering the overall development of the app store.

I've been keeping an eye on it for some time now and for the past two years or so it didn't really change much. They catalog consists of 32 apps, out of which 3 are icons, 2 are the same app in different versions, 2 are one app and one companion app for it, and most of the rest are odd picks considering the far more popular alternatives on other app stores.

The app store itself has remained stagnant for a long time, without introducing any new features (screenshots of the apps? App descriptions? Ratings? Comments? Version history? Nothing). As a matter of fact, if you look at the releases changelogs, you will see that development is at its bare minimum: https://github.com/accrescent/accrescent/releases

I'm sorry to be negative here, but this OSS project does not appear to be the developer's main focus and this blog post makes it sound even more like an easy cash-grab. After reading through the post I am in fact more willing to drop the app altogether, rather than to donate for them to reach their goal of over $5k a month.

There are OSS projects where plenty more people are putting in significantly more work and that do not even come close to $5k per month in donations. This seems vastly out of touch.

> plans to make it very difficult for European consumers to order from China directly.

This has been the case for over a decade now. As a consumer, ordering directly from a Chinese seller/manufacturer was always met with intense scrutiny and taxation the moment consumers would have to pick up their package at customs. It has been made economically unreasonable for the average person to do these kind of things, which is why ...

> they're just a middleman charging an unreasonable fee for importing Chinese-made products

This has become a notorious trend within the EU. Unlike in the US, where consumers could order directly from Chinese vendors without being taxed, the EU implemented policies that only benefitted the cheeky business (wo)men who wanted to make a quick buck by playing middleman.

In my opinion, this pseudo-protectionist behavior by EU lawmakers was a key reason for Amazon's uprising in Europe. Amazon offered the cheap Chinese products the population wanted, yet undercut local middlemen at large.

This link has 71 comments and 84 points and is from 4 hours ago yet it shows for me on place 197 (page 7) of HN.

Is Ycombinator (or one of the intermediary investment funds) invested in New Vector?

From the limited information that appears to be available I would assume that the reasons to move operations from the US to NL were largely personal. Reading through the other comments in this thread and some of the content on the founder's own website gives some clues.

My theory is that they are eyeing to get rid of their US citizenship and naturalize in the Netherlands, which is possible after 5 years when certain criteria is met. Having economic ties to the country you're trying to get citizenship in helps immensely. The logical next step for them would be to open a physical location and employ Dutch citizens to further solidify their case.

You have to remember: As long as the founder is still citizen of the United States, they will inevitably support the country and its policy with the taxes on their world income. After all, the US is one of only three countries in the world that taxes based on citizenship rather than residency.

Having that said, there have been various attempts across Europe to change from residency-based taxation to citizenship-based taxation in the past decades. All of which have been unsuccessful so far.

This depends on many details and there's no general answer to your question. Also, Estonia and Romania do not only offer easier incorporation, but are an overall better fit for businesses like the one presented here (at least from the limited information that I was able to gather on it) due a higher flexibility, more favorable taxes, and fewer regulations in general.

Since you're mentioning a GmbH I'm assuming you're based in either Switzerland, Germany or Austria. Generally speaking, regulation and tax codes in these countries have made it very unfavorable to operate any foreign entity, unless there's a fair amount of substance and structure in the target jurisdiction that make it worthwhile.

However, it is important to mention that while it is often the "natural" thing to do, operating a business in the same country that the founder is based in is almost never ideal from a regulatory and tax perspective. Unforunately, though, proper planning and execution of advanced structures is usually not something the average startup founder is a) primarily interested in and b) able to afford.

Given the other comments in this thread mentioning the founder's rather left-leaning political views, I assume that regulatory and, specifically, tax optimization were none of the founder's main goals to begin with.

If you want US VC money, that is. If you are happy with cheques from big oil you might as well incorporate in the UAE. There are many places around the world that are friendly towards VC investments/startups (Singapore, Hong Kong, the aforementioned UAE, just to name some). However, sadly the EU is not one of them.

Precisely because the average participant of this platform has as much in-depth experience in actually incorporating and running a company in different parts of the world as the average person on the street.

Netherlands, and the EU in general, are cumbersome to deal with regardless of all the "startup incentives" they've been pushing in the past few years. Compare the incorporation, maintenance and closure processes of a Delaware/Wyoming/New Mexico/Florida LLC with anything even remotely comparable in Europe (e.g. a BV/NV/SRL in the Netherlands) and you will quickly see why the US has become the world's center-stage for doing business.

For SourceHut Estonia and Romania would have probably been a better choices, as from my understanding, they are not investor-driven and do not seem to head that way, they are fully digital/remote, and they require disproportionally more infrastructure than office workers to operate.

However, when living in the EU one has to take into account various (frankly absurd) taxation laws that might ultimately prevent founders from incorporating their company in any of the neighboring countries. Hence it would be necessary to look at the details of the founder's circumstances to evaluate if incoporation in a different country would have made sense to begin with.

That said, I agree with the top rated comment [1] as for the broader topic of where to incorporate.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44366032

Yes, but, no. It's one of these things where multiple terms mean the same thing but then again come from different times/areas and, upon closer inspection, mean different things. But they're the same. But not really. [1]

A.k.a. I tried to be as politically correct and cite the term used by the respective reporting. The main point I was trying to bring across was that apparently there are two apps involved, not only a single one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_and_North_Africa