Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added (bribes.fyi)
62 points by neverenderr 2 hours ago
helterskelter an hour ago
Once you get outside the first world brides seem to be the norm -- every person I know who does international work has a story about having to bride somebody, especially if you need to get something through customs quickly, or at all. It's funny, you just make a bare effort to make it seem official and they'll get you right through.
One guy would keep cash in a hidden pocket in his suitcase and if customs gave him trouble he'd politely inform them about the pocket they didn't check and everything would get resolved.
Another guy would be bringing in parts for his company and when things got held up he'd talk to the person of the appropriate rank and offer to pay the "expedited" fee to get things through, as these were very important pieces of equipment. There was no expedited fee.
Somebody else would literally just sneak them cash as they shook the custom officer's hand, but they had a working relationship and knew each other on a first name basis.
One person got pissed off and refused to pay a bride and literally just waited until they changed shifts and his stuff was released.
helterskelter 26 minutes ago
Forgot to add, there was one customs officer in $SMALLCOUNTRY who used to take bribes from somebody I knew, but was transferred to the taxation department. The person I knew died, but I found out through one of his coworkers that the former customs officer resolved a SNAFU with some tax paperwork that was about to turn into a very expensive disaster. He didn't even expect payment, he just wanted to do right by the person who had seriously bolstered his income for years, he was even asking about the guy's family how they were doing after his passing.
neverenderr 15 minutes ago
This got flagged, not sure exactly why, but I'm just trying to keep things transparent and keep the site running. Wasn't trying to spam anything, just sharing the updates as they came. Requesting the mod to look into it.
9dev an hour ago
Good lord, that this is necessary is so depressing.
neverenderr an hour ago
Yeah, man, depressing yet the truth.
tallanvor an hour ago
Why do you feel the need to submit this 4 times over 1 week?
mtlynch a minute ago
Reposting is officially allowed:
> Are reposts ok?
> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
While we're on the subject of following site guidelines:
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
enraged_camel an hour ago
It's a cool site. I like the concept a lot.
With HN, often times things have to be submitted multiple times before they get noticed and "stick" and generate interesting discussions. It's very dependent on luck, and there are no rules against it AFAIK (aside from what the spam detector flags).
tallanvor an hour ago
Rules generally come around due to bad behavior, which I would suggest submitting the same thing every other day for a week constitutes. It's also a very niche topic, even for this site, and not particularly useful or interesting.
enraged_camel 38 minutes ago
losteric an hour ago
this is just crowd sourced data? Looks vibe coded. And immediately asking for donations for a short Claude job, pretty sus?
derektank an hour ago
Just curious, but did any specific anti-corruption campaigns from history in other nations inspire the design here at all?
neverenderr an hour ago
Direct homepage - https://bribes.fyi/
philajan an hour ago
Just wanted to let you know Twitter, GH, and RSS icons fall behind the nav bar at least on mobile.
neverenderr 2 hours ago
Also set up a support link for anyone else who'd like to help keep it running: https://bribes.fyi/support
verve_rat an hour ago
I'm a little disappointed that https://bribes.fyi/bribes doesn't redirect to that support page to be honest.
When I saw the name/tag line I thought this would be a travel advice site, but I like this so much more. Great work.
blitzar an hour ago
> Donations don’t influence the data. Supporting the platform buys no special treatment.
How disappointing.
dark-star an hour ago
What happens to you in India when you are charged builty of bribery? What are the punishments, if any? (for the person receiving the bribe, not the person bribing, obviously)
Exoristos an hour ago
What are the differences between a bribe and a tip, given X cultural milieu?
gnfargbl an hour ago
Public servants should neither ask for nor expect either?
woadwarrior01 an hour ago
aka Baksheesh in the Middle East
oplav an hour ago
Another discussion about corruption in India from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20088870
pstuart an hour ago
I'm glad that bribery only exists in India and not in the United State. /s because Poe.
zuzululu an hour ago
need one for southeast asian countries and eastern europe
ckrapu 2 hours ago
If it is satire, bravo.
If sincere, congratulations.
neverenderr 2 hours ago
It is sincere, btw, thanks.
tyre an hour ago
What do you think lend itself to this culture and how will it change? Is it considered normal / unsurprising / accepted? Like, “just cost of doing business”?
ImHereToVote an hour ago
toomuchtodo an hour ago
micromacrofoot an hour ago
antonvs an hour ago
lozenge an hour ago
Has anybody reported a refusal and managing to complete their task? I just see 0% whatever I input.