7 comments

  • GaryBluto45 minutes ago
    How inspiring. In a war torn country, a man perseveres and continues making the internet worse.<p>The founder&#x27;s LinkedIn describes his job as &quot;Automating phones for you - Dead internet as a service&quot;, and also has a post where he proudly states that this post was &quot;banned on Hacker News&quot;, so I don&#x27;t doubt that he&#x27;s abusing the phones here too.<p>It isn&#x27;t a click farm, it&#x27;s a bot farm.
  • sheepscreek2 hours ago
    &gt; Large grocery stores and apartment buildings use big generators, they are the size of a car and way quieter than small generators.<p>Many industrial generators are enclosed in a box that absorbs most of the noise, unlike the smaller ones.
  • fennec-posix9 hours ago
    I love the ingenuity of this, truly in the hacker spirit! I also lol&#x27;d at how fast this got onto the FP given what these guys do, jolly good show gents! Well Played.
  • 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&#x2F;Uper C-X-Ku).
  • mmastrac9 hours ago
    &quot;We now continue to work as before, getting social media engagement for us and our clients, applying to YC 2026 and other VCs.&quot;<p>Ehh, so this is a click farm?
    • snakeboy9 hours ago
      At this point, is the most &quot;effective ethical&quot; 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?
    • dansmith19199 hours ago
      Yeah now we know why it’s on the front page not even 10 minutes after posting…
    • chrisandchris9 hours ago
      &gt; We help startups get attention with automated social media marketing on physical phones.
    • breppp9 hours ago
      Combining what Ukraine is known for, kicking Russian ass and creating shady software
    • xnx1 hour ago
      With only 60 phones, this is like a click homestead.
    • mbreese9 hours ago
      <i>&gt; Your own army of physical phones in just a few clicks</i><p>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
      &quot;I saw the best minds of my generation...&quot;
  • JawsofDeath9 hours ago
    Слава Україні!
  • IshKebab9 hours ago
    &gt; There even was an official program to replace your old lightbulb for a new LED one for free<p>Wow do they still have incandescent lightbulbs? Mental.