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by parineum | 2025-11-15 22:01:30+00:00
> A routine Shin Bet polygraph test of a senior officer close to Military Advocate General reportedly exposed new clues about video leak...

It should probably read, "A senior officer exposed clues during a polygraph test..."

The polygraph is a McGuffin. The interviewer applies pressure by psychologically manipulating the suspect. That's all the polygraph is, psychological manipulation.
by vips7L | 2025-11-15 22:02:15+00:00
I genuinely can’t think of anything the Java standard library is missing, apart from a json parser which is being added.

It’s your preference to prefer one over the other, I prefer Java’s standard library because atleast it has a generic Set data structure in it and C#’s standard library does have a JSON parser.

I don’t think discussions about what is in the standard library really refutes anything about Go being within the same performance profile though.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-15 22:03:30+00:00
> Yes, and that's pretty much exactly the point: we don't know of any way of determining whether someone is a p-zombie or a being with conscious phenomenal experience.

That seems to come down to defining, in a non hand-wavy way, what we mean by "conscious phenomenal experience". If this is referring to personal subjective experience, then why is just asking them to report that subjective experience unsatisfactory ?!

I get that consciousness is considered as some ineffable personal experience, but as a thought experiment, what if the experimenter, defining themselves as "conscious" wanted to probe if some subject's subjective experience differed from their own, then they could at least attempt to verbalize any and all aspects of their own (the experimeter's) subjective experience and ask the subject if they felt the same, and the more (unconstrained) questions they asked without finding any significant difference would make it asymptotically unlikely that there was any difference.

> which is why it's [p-zombie detection] been called the "hard problem" of consciousness

AFAIK the normal definition of the hard problem is basically how and why the brain gives rise to qualia and subjective experience, which really seems like a non-problem...

We have thoughts and emotions, and mental access to these, so it has to feel like something to be alive and experience things. If we introspect on what having, say, vision, is like, or what it is like to have our eyes open vs shut, then (assuming we don't have blindsight!) we are obviously going to experience the difference and be able to report it - it does "feel" like something.

Qualia are an interesting thing to discuss - why do we experience what we do, or experience anything at all for that matter when we see, say a large red circle. Why does red feel "red"? Why and how does music feel different in nature to color, and why does it feel the way it does, etc?

I think these are also really non-problems that disappear as soon as you start to examine them! What are the differences in quales of seeing a small red circle vs a large red circle, or a large blue circle vs a large red one... When you consider differences in quales vs the fact that we experience anything at all (which is proved by our ability to report that we do). Color is perceived as surface attribute with a spatial extent, with colors differentiated by what they remind us of. Blue brings to mind water, sky and other blue things, Red brings to mind fire, roses, and other red things. Perception of color can be proven to be purely associative, not absolute, by Ivo Kohler's chromatic adaptation experiments, having the subject wear colored goggles whose effect "wears off" after a few days with normal subjective perception of color returning.
Ask HN: How Do Developers Stay Up to Date Without Being on Twitter All Day?
by jerawaj740 | 2025-11-15 22:03:34+00:00
I feel like a lot of the best tech updates, new libraries, tool releases, smart engineering insights, show up first in random Twitter replies or buried threads. I don’t want to spend my whole day refreshing Twitter just to stay informed, but I also don’t want to miss important stuff. How do you keep up with tech as a developer without being glued to Twitter?
by newtrino | 2025-11-15 22:04:22+00:00
This is incredible! I've seen many recreations of classic software on the web, but the attention to detail and authenticity here surpasses astonishment and enters the orbit of pure, creative insanity. (Atkinson would no doubt be pleased.)

Kudos to you for the time and effort you put into this — and all the more for bringing it to a stage where you could share it with the rest of us. I’d love to read a blog post about this project someday!
by sfpotter | 2025-11-15 22:04:42+00:00
I'm not a physical scientist, but I spend a lot of time assessing the performance of numerical algorithms, which is maybe not totally dissimilar to measuring a physical process with a device. I've gotten good results applying Simple and Stupid statistical methods. I haven't tried the method described in this article, but I'm definitely on the lookout for an application of it now.
by PinkSheep | 2025-11-15 22:04:44+00:00
Good job on AdGuard's end for bringing this to the Internet's attention. I especially enjoyed the unearthed details about this "N"GO's short history.

I think the e-mail exchange should've been kept short, although it is good that the owner of archive.today was eventually notified (by them) about these links in good faith to remove them. Their reply should've been the following:

"Thank you for contacting us. If you have conclusive proof of illegal behavior, you should contact police and seek legal assistance. A website's administrator is expected to adequately react to illegal actions conducted by its users, such as removing media that's breaking a law.

We have visited the URLs provided by you (https://archive[.]today/ , ...) and found no evidence to corroborate your concerns. To avoid misunderstandings, we require you to send a certified mail to <Adguards company address> before further replies on this matter."

Remember guys, it should always be certified mail (bonus points for international). And yes, I mean literal index pages as provided in the first e-mail. Play by the legal understanding of words. Be creative and break the rules to the extent of not breaking them ;)

PS: If you want to see more of "funny replies" you should read Njalla's blog (<https://njal.la/blog/>) and TPB's infamous e-mail replies.
by iknowstuff | 2025-11-15 22:05:09+00:00
Damn I love the strix halo. the framework desktop idles at 10W and has modern standby consuming less than 1W, but fully connected so an xbox controller can wake it over bluetooth etc.

My 3080 sffpc eats 70W idle and 400W under load.

Game performance is roughly the same from a normie point of view.
by _alternator_ | 2025-11-15 22:05:13+00:00
Note that study suggests that coffee consumption decreases arrhythmia. (The title is horribly confusing, I know.)

From a quick skim, the protocol seemed to be “advise the patient to drink at least one cup of coffee per day or continue drinking your usual amount.” So it seems the results don’t track with your experience (or my own experience of improved stress and happiness when I cut down on coffee) which is why I think it’s surprising / possibly a fluke.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-15 22:05:39+00:00
I think many on this thread are missing the point. the fact that it had to be waived alone speaks volumes. Sure they're about as accurate as a coin flip as the top commenter said, but they are theatrics and what you do before, during, and after usually gives interrogators lots of clues about you that they wouldn't otherwise have observed.

If you're trying "tricks" to get past it for example, that's one data point. It's useful for things like clearance investigations because there is a counter-intel side to it, your comms, pattern of live and other things will be scrutinized.

it is essentially a "vibe" tool. Do you look too clam, too nervous,etc..

That said, people end up contradicting themselves when focusing too much on beating the polygraph too. Skilled interrogators throw questions that will cause that. Do you sound too prepared and detailed, answering questions with details most people won't remember? Are you too consistent, indicating recollection of prepared facts, instead of wading through unreliable human memory?

Even without a polygraph, your eye movements alone are hard to get under control unless you practice for it. That's why they baseline you first with simple things you're expected to lie on, and then more complex things that most people would at least partially lie about.

The accuracy of the polygraph itself is not too relevant. If you're hiring someone for a senior role at the FBI, a polygraph is the formality that opens you up to all kinds of legal trouble. it's purpose is to put the subject under legal jeopardy. A simple interrogation will do, but a polygraph introduces an adversarial evidentiary element into the equation.

In short, it gives the FBI in this case the option to say "this guy is acting shady, we can't trust him". Even if they're wrong, the sensitivity of the position requires passing on good candidates if they must. An investigator on their own would have to prove/justify their conclusion. a polygraph is their way out. They've seen spies, traitors, etc.. it's a way to filter people out with a somewhat justifiable cause.

The question you should be asking is why was it waived in this case just for those three staff members? If it is indeed unreliable, why not stop it entirely?

Millions of Americans have TS/SCI clearance, which had them pass a polygraph just fine. The government isn't losing a lot of talent who're fumbling a polygraph. This is a big deal. Any conversation about the reliability of a polygraph is a distraction.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-15 22:05:56+00:00
Whatever the banks approve, I suppose. Buy out a street block, "invest" in a new company, acquire another company, etc.

Put it another way: I'd also have little to worry about if I could borrow 200k from the bank for a project. That'd basically be used to pay rent and get minimal equipment I'd never be approved for it, though.
by BoppreH | 2025-11-15 22:06:22+00:00
Very nice and satisfying, but I would suggest ramping up the difficulty a little faster. I got until lvl 15 by just flipping the obvious areas, taking no more than 2 seconds. It's otherwise very cool and minimalist.

Edit: limiting it to square flips was a great idea. There are just enough moves to make the answer non-obvious (after lvl 15), but not so many possible moves that you get overwhelmed.

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Edit 2: I just remembered I made a similar "game"[1], where you select columns to XOR with other columns and try to reach the target pattern. Use the scroll wheel and shift+wheel to change the pattern and size.

That was actually part of a real research project in optimizing circuits for computing binary finite fields, where the "game" was a sandbox to try different algorithms. The best algorithm was actually found by someone playing in this sandbox and coming up with an efficient strategy.

[1] https://boppreh.com/source/playreduce/
by thomascountz | 2025-11-15 22:08:02+00:00
I'm inspired by this and want to extend it, perhaps telescopically, by discussing what the thing is.

Sometimes we see our task as being, "do C," and we forget the "B" and "A" that come before.

Maybe you can't do "C" without discussing it ("B") or researching how others did it ("A"). In these cases, we shouldn't simply think the thing is "C"—the thing must first be "A," then "B," and then, "C."

If we forget this, we're bound to think "C" is the only thing of value, that it should take an hour and not a week, or that people doing the "A's" or "B's" to enable the "Cs" must be doing nothing at all!
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-15 22:08:58+00:00
> Sometimes I wonder if the people who propose these gotcha questions ever bother to actually test them on said LLMs

Since you asked, yes, Claude responds "mat", then asks if I want it to "continue the story".

Of course if you know anything about LLMs you should realize that they are just input continuers, and any conversational skills comes from post training. To an LLM a question is just an input whose human-preferred (as well as statistically most likely) continuation is a corresponding answer.

I'm not sure why you regard this as a "gotcha" question. If you're expressing opinions on LLMs, then table stakes should be to have a basic understanding of LLMs - what they are internally, how they work, and how they are trained, etc. If you find a description of LLMs as input-continuers in the least bit contentious then I'm sorry to say you completely fail to understand them - this is literally what they are trained to do. The only thing they are trained to do.
by LunicLynx | 2025-11-15 22:09:10+00:00
I find this very curious. I don’t think agents care about UI, humans do. So in the end the UI is not required. As soon as the ai can get into the physical world. The whole IT world is done for. All of this will be automated away. The IT and CS only ever started to make us more productive more connected to improve our physical well being. When we don’t need to touch computers anymore there is no need for …
by isingh86 | 2025-11-15 22:09:18+00:00
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by gooodvibes | 2025-11-15 22:11:56+00:00
I wonder if there's some kind of online board or forum where people post about tech...

Also, have you tried working instead of twitter? Learning instead of twitter? Just no twitter instead of twitter? Whatever useful thing you're telling yourself that you get from it, good chance that you're wrong and you can do without it completely instead of needing to replace it in some way.
by lovich | 2025-11-15 22:12:16+00:00
Oh, so you mean be driftless as well. I thought you meant room and board in a community.

It is ridiculous of you think this sort of job is the solution to poverty at any amount of scale.

> So hackers are provoked by people taking their destiny in their own hands and clawing their way out of poverty by virtue of their own honest labour.

Hackers on this board are provoked when people suggest ways of taking destiny into their own hands that removes power from the tech billionaires, they are not provoked when someone finds a job
by tucnak | 2025-11-15 22:12:29+00:00
Well, my perspective is having to do with Ukrainian mil tech, but I believe the same is true in e.g. cybersecurity, and it helps that the newcomers are often familiar with the process. Poly is not for everyone. Now, when you say "industrial espionage" it sounds dandy and fine, but for all intents and purposes there is no such thing. There is exploitation, yes, and it may easily cross from industrial, to defence, to political depending on trade.

I never said I subscribe to the unpopular opinion, but it's a point of contention regardless!
by Neywiny | 2025-11-15 22:12:30+00:00
This is what I wanted to focus on so thanks for starting the convo. This all feels like 100% coverage = perfectly tested, no bugs possible. Nooooo, there needs to be more than that. I lately had a really good readme for a project in a heavy development phase. Basically everything I'd done, every command, every concept, got documented. That's worry about cleanup later. I did not put in every line of code, I put concepts. So when a new person got brought on and asked stuff like "well but how do I change the config?" Bam, it's in the readme. Over and over, every task I had to do, they had to at least consider or understand, so it's in the readme. Of course I did start with a quick-start "how do I use this repo" and only later did "how do I develop this repo" but still, it was all useful because it's what I needed.

It doesn't seem impossible for an LLM to go "hmmm, the way this repo passes configurations around isn't standard. I should focus more on that." But that's a level of understanding I don't think they currently have
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-15 22:12:34+00:00
> You realize every single country has similar procedures?

The US has a way of setting bad precedents or pressuring other countries to adopt its inanity, yes. Another reason not to do it here.

> If NY gets disrupted - no one cares outside of New York.

The very large number of people in New York probably care though. Also, why would someone blowing up a train in New York be less scary to people in DC than someone blowing up a plane in New York would be to people in DC?

> Do you remember how people were stuck after 911 or more recently when a bad software update took out airlines nationwide?

Less than a quarter as many people as get stuck when the NYC subways are offline, presumably.
by Muromec | 2025-11-15 22:13:18+00:00
>So perhaps the EU institutions do not need to directly refer to the ECHR, only national governments should???

Correct. EU is not a party of the convention, member states are, so EU law can be ruled on by ECJ and national law and actions of national governments by ECHR.

Then at the end of the day it's the national government that would look at your chats and "I'm just following EU law" would not be an especially great excuse for the ECHR court.
by Atlas667 | 2025-11-15 22:13:29+00:00
Wait, I'm talking about liberalism and classical/social liberalism as extensions of that. Im referring to the overarching philosophy and parts of its derivatives.

>I'm referring to your analysis, so the article is irrelevant.

You didnt read it. I said that the group of ideas that are talked about in the article belong to liberalism, the philosophy. That they are derived from philosophical liberalism, the overarching philosophy of capitalist countries.

> None of these things are myths. They are, again, ideals. You commit the is-ought fallacy, blatantly and repeatedly.

I am specifically saying that these ideals cannot be attained. The philosophy is in negation of itself. That they are unworkable and cannot be practiced while there are classes within society. Moreso that they are how the rich defend their own rule, knowing that they are unworkable ideals. Its a philosophy analogous to "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".
by submeta | 2025-11-15 22:13:56+00:00
Been writing Python code for over twenty years, and using it for personal and work projects, not mainly, but to suppport my work. Recently I ported some of my code to Go and was blown away: Cross compiler, creating binaries, concurrency done right, super fast code. I come very late to the party, and writing software is not my main job, but Go is such a nice complement for my toolbelt. Python for prototyping or writing small services with fastapi, go for network realted stuff, serving lots of users. Super happy with this.

And I am wondering if Rust would be a good addition. Or rather go with Typescript to complement Python and Go.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-15 22:14:23+00:00
Yeah. Anyone who still doubts how bad things are: "interview" for a month. Just a month. It will be very apparent but many people who are content in their careers would never otherwise notice.

It's no wonder Gen Z is so cynical. People are talking about how good things are and they can't even get a human to respond to them for their first step in.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-15 22:15:02+00:00
There is a vast gap between current epigenetic inheritance science in humans and all of the theories that epigenetic inheritance is a substantial carrier of inter generational trauma.

We’re still trying to figure out how much, if any, epigenetic inheritance applies to humans. If we did find some evidence, it wouldn’t be as simple as declaring that the trauma of previous generations harmed offspring. For example, it could be equally likely that offspring of prior generations that endured a lot of stress were actually more stress resilient and therefore received some advantages.

> If that is the case, it has profound public policy implications.

I disagree. As I said above, anyone jumping to conclusions that epigenetic inheritance could only confer negative traits is trying to force another concept (inter-generational trauma) into a convenient scientific carrier to make it appear to be a more valid policy position.
by bcrl | 2025-11-15 22:16:15+00:00
Circuit switching is not harder to do, it's simply less efficient. In the PSTN and ISDN world, circuits consumed bandwidth regardless of whether it was actively in use or not. There was no statistical multiplexing as a result.

Circuit switching packets means carrying metadata about the circuit rather than simply using the destination MAC or IP address to figure out routing along the way. ATM took this to an extreme with nearly 10% protocol overhead (48 bytes of payload in a 53 byte cell) and 22 bytes of wasted space in the last ATM cell for a 1500 byte ethernet packet. That inefficiency is what really hurt. Sadly the ATM legacy lives on in GPON and XGSPON -- EPON / 10GEPON are far better protocols. As a result, GPON and XGSPON require gobs of memory per port for frame reassembly (128 ONUs x 8 priorities x 9KB for jumbo frames = 9MB per port worst case), whereas EPON / 10GEPON do not.

MPLS also has certain issues that are solved by using the IPv6 next header feature which avoids having to push / pop headers (modifying the size of the packet which has implications for buffering and the associated QoS issues making the hardware more complex) in the transport network. MPLS labels made sense at the time of introduction in the early 2000s when transport network hardware was able to utilize a small table to look up the next hop of a frame instead of doing a full route lookup. The hardware constraints of those early days requiring small SRAMs have effectively gone away since modern ASICs have billions of transistors which make on chip route tables sufficient for many use-cases.
by bnchrch | 2025-11-15 22:16:33+00:00
If you check my comments Im a routine critic of Apple. Specifically its mis-management of Siri.

But, in my mind, Tim Cook is also responsible for the only exceptional qualities of Apple. Namely its production of the M series chips and the Vision Pro (yes really).

They better have someone outstanding in mind as a replacement.

Otherwise I could easily see the successor mildly improve Siri/AI functions, while continuing Apples new disastrous design language and drop the ball on the supply chain and vertical integration that makes their hardware products second to none.
Show HN: 1Pwned
by peteski22 | 2025-11-15 22:17:13+00:00
Check all your 1Password logins against Have I Been Pwned's API to figure out which one might be Pwned.

After the Synthient Stealer Log Threat Data Breach (https://synthient.com/blog/the-stealer-log-ecosystem) I realised: you can be in a vulnerable spot if you happen to have a different password for every website, BUT the same email address.

Hopefully this is useful to others who want to be able to find out 'which' login was likely Pwned when they get that alert.
by zenoprax | 2025-11-15 22:17:29+00:00
No one has the right to someone else's IP. If Disney decides to pull all their shows and shut down then there could be no legal way to watch it other than pre-existing DVDs/BluRay.

The issue at hand is the absence of a legal owner. It should fall into a commons for public use until someone can prove ownership. Eg. abandonware.