YC Sending Mass Spam Through Github Issues

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not_your_vase

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YC is sending mass spam through GitHub issues, sparking criticism and debate about the appropriateness of this practice.

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Bender

3 months ago

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Related [1] - 50 points - 17 hours ago - 29 Comments

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352610

gus_massa

3 months ago

tl;dr: It's a scammer impersonating Y Combinator.

blef

3 months ago

Looks like a scam / hack or something it says "Funding: $30,000,000 USD investment on standard YC terms" which is weird first and second the Github mail app doing this has been developed by a Github account that is 3 days old.

not_your_vaseAuthor

3 months ago

They tag 25-30 GH accounts in each issue, looking for applications. Apparently they ran out of candidates.

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