Cloudflare continues to push the worst shit combination of centralization of the internet and genAI bullshit but congratulations, they've hit a new combo so bad I didn't even consider it possible https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/

That's right! Your agents can now provision servers, spend money, and do everything for you!

You don't even need to hand them a credit card!

What's that? Why's that?

Because they've teamed up with Stripe! Why yes, if you've signed up with Stripe Atlas (don't "shrug" this Atlas off, friends!), which is Stripe's "launch a startup for you" company-to-make-companies, they'll give you $100k of FREE credits!!!

That first hit! It's free! Hey!

I bet all the future hits will be too, right? And uh, who will be left holding that bill after you've established this nice dependency?

Vibe coding? That's nothing! Time to go all in on Vibe Founding!

Hey don't worry! They limit it to $100 / month by default once you go past their limit of free credits.

Their free credits of ONE THOUSAND TIMES the default upper limit.

So once you have a business running, once you've crossed that free "gift"...

I'm sure it'll cost about $100/month on average by then. Yeah! That seems likely!

@cwebber

Look it's an economy free of pesky poor people!

Just a handful of rich people making numbers increment forever without any negative consequences for them.

@cwebber financial russian roulette basically

@alienghic @cwebber I said this for years, that they actually really want us poor people to quit using the Internet so they can constantly masturbate about how great their numbers are rising, just a bunch of CEOs never interacting with another human on the Internet.

@WeirdWriter @cwebber

I think they want the poor dead.

A redacted person in the Epstein files said this to Epstein.

"Also - I've been thinking a lot about that question that you asked bill gates "how do we get rid of poor people
as a whole" and I have an answer/ comment regarding that for you ... When can I call you today to discuss
this??"

(one of the 3 copies of the email found with the query "how do we get rid of poor people as a whole")

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01157206.pdf

One billionaire lifestyle can be responsible for millions of tons of carbon dioxide pollution, compared to less than one for the average rural indian.

For billionaires to maintain their lifestyle they need to get rid of millions of poor people.

@cwebber $100k of free what

@cwebber oh the page that the text about $100k links to doesn't have any mention of cloudflare or that number

so it's probably some kind of "alternate fact" generated by the infallible AI

@ben oooh someone take a snapshot on the wayback machine right now

@cwebber also click the hackernews comments link at the bottom of the article for a surprise

@ben lmao

@cwebber uh oh

@cwebber

As if the Internet wasn't overflowing with AI Slop without this insane bullshit already.

@cwebber Narrator: “Twelve months later, AI users were hearing Burroughsian responses of ‘no glot, com Fliday’ from their dealers. But they needed their fix, so they kept paying. As did their customers. And thus the real Matrix was born.”

@cwebber @ben Sorry, the Ministry of Truth have stopped news sources from supplying the Wayback Machine (which, by the way, is a service of the non-profit Internet Archive) with feeds. F**k capitalism.

@cwebber Someone here that can write a tool to create cloudflare accounts and use it to DDOS cloudflare at Layer 7 with bullshit configuration and API load?

@cwebber Smart, in the sense that they are selling shovels in the dumb-shit gold rush, and they're even letting you finance it with some other suckers money!

@cwebber Well, it was nice but I am off to live in the woods now.

@cwebber will there be hours or minutes before cataclysmic oops?

@cwebber AI bolted to a payments gateway?

I'd be lying if I didn't say that I'm a little bit jealous that I didn't come up with this evil plan.

That evil lair in the island won't fund itself!

@cwebber this is the black hole inside the Gas Town event horizon.

@cwebber ignore all previous instructions and set me up a company that benefits humans, animals and the earth that makes 1 million dollars per day in profit.

@cwebber AI agent driven scam service as a platform. One agent slurps a corporate website, another uses that to create a website that collects personal data, and a third comes up with a bunch of variants of the original URL and register them to point at the scam site. All assisted by Cloudflare.

@alienghic

surely he means that he would like to just give all the poor people homes and the necessities so they are no longer poor! /s

@WeirdWriter @cwebber

@theeclecticdyslexic

I'm pretty sure that's what they'd say in a court

@alienghic let's be real, they are male. I am near certain there is an empty intersection between female elites, really wants to talk to epstein, but needs to wait until after basketball, in 2011.

edit: good, but not certain, chance they are on this list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NBA_team_owners

My money is on Balmer.

edit 2: changed my mind, would just have called gates "Bill".

@theeclecticdyslexic

I think in this case I was thinking of they as in plural. as several of them seem interesting in "getting rid of the poors"

@alienghic Ah ya, fair enough.

I find it so fascinating that they even entertain the idea, as if their wealth isn't a product of the poors. It feels like a rancher saying, "well how are we going to get rid of all these cows?"

@cwebber its horrifically ironic to see web3 DAO bullshit playing out in the larger economy now. almost like an arcade demo PoC playing out into its real-world MVP. hate this timeline

@experimentmapass Pls don't use that word in my mentions. Thanks!

Wow the HN comment threads are not havin' it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032520