Hacker News: ahonhn

New comment by ahonhn in "The "Windows XP Box" (2003)"

ahonhn — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:50:03 +0000

I have on my bookshelf an unopened and still shrink-wrapped copy of Spaceward Ho! (Win 95 version IV requiring at least a 486/33). I like its bold red colour and the exciting way the unseen floppy disk and manual rattle about inside when I turn the box!

Egocentric training's gig workers are helping robots learn how to do your dishes

ahonhn — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 04:27:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-20/egocentric-training-gig-workers-helping-robots-learn-tasks/107135216

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772501

Points: 3

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New comment by ahonhn in "Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure"

ahonhn — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:11:46 +0000

I should very much like to watch the Tom Baker seasons again, Sadly, I can see only the 1965 season 3 videos on the channel. The Shada link (and presumably all the rest of it) are "The uploader has not made this video available in your country" :-(

Sellers on Shopee, TikTok call out auto-generated AI ads that mislead customers

ahonhn — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:23:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ai-generated-videos-shopee-tiktok-misleading-sellers-6336961

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428369

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

While government reviews aged care algorithm, waitlists are growing

ahonhn — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 04:49:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-23/independent-assessment-tool-four-corners-mark-butler-aged-care/107049498

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406132

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ahonhn in "Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated"

ahonhn — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:51:25 +0000

Computers ruining lives with wrong or misleading output has always been a thing, consider e.g. the Post Office scandal in the UK or Robodebt in Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme

It seems to me that most people regard computers as some kind of infallible truth machine. If told its spewing garbage they're more likely to double down and shoot the messenger than try and get it sorted out.

NTU to stop using 'fundamentally unreliable' AI detector from 2027

ahonhn — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:16:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ntu-ai-detector-stop-using-2027-probability-scores-misconduct-6320136

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299883

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated

ahonhn — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:24:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294441

Points: 157

# Comments: 129

New comment by ahonhn in "We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447"

ahonhn — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:33:28 +0000

But wouldn't the text it generates reflect such motivations and emotions that were present in the training data?

Copyright law is now the biggest battleground in Australia's AI boom

ahonhn — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:51:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-14/copyright-law-battleground-in-australia-ai-boom/106891890

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902417

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by ahonhn in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

ahonhn — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:38:06 +0000

Decades later I still have better muscle memory for the Beeb's typical ZX*? ( and ELITE's SX<> ) than I do for WASD or arrow keys.

Billionaire Andrew Forrest takes Meta to court over scam ads using his likeness

ahonhn — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:00:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-17/andrew-forrest-battles-meta-over-fake-ads/106574806

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802333

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by ahonhn in "Drivers reeling after passengers caught out by AI-powered safety cameras"

ahonhn — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:43:00 +0000

A HN audience is so sure to parse "WA" as Washington state that leaving it in the title would be misleading with every second response along the lines of "I only clicked because I thought it was Washington".

Should it be expanded to "Aussie"? (since "West Australian", "Australian", "Sandgroper", or "Doubleyooalien drivers" doesn't fit the title field).

I reckon the location is secondary and the interesting part is about technology enabling universal and intrusive enforcement of easy to break rules that were previously difficult to enforce absolutely.

Such rules tend to have rather draconian 'example making' penalties attached to them because of that.

Is AI camera enforcement 'not a problem' in Honduras or Washington State because they don't use them there yet? Is seeing how it pans out somewhere else first of no interest to them?

Drivers reeling after passengers caught out by AI-powered safety cameras

ahonhn — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:01:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-27/seat-belt-cameras-catch-drivers-in-costly-mistake/106395672

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47175374

Points: 15

# Comments: 14

Scammers fleeced pensioner out of $1,338. So he sued his bank for $379M

ahonhn — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:31:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-22/ian-williams-on-why-he-sued-nab-bank/106093720

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108180

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

High school students forced to fight false allegations of AI cheating

ahonhn — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:44:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-22/ai-detectors-incorrectly-brand-high-school-students-ai-cheats/106138394

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46351086

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ahonhn in "The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake"

ahonhn — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 07:41:28 +0000

This mention of verbs reminds me of Steve Yegge's blog post "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns" from 2006.

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...

New comment by ahonhn in "I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files"

ahonhn — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:56:10 +0000

I am happy to anthropomorphise a rock with googly eyes. It is when the rock with googly eyes starts to anthropomorphise itself that I get creeped out.

Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google

ahonhn — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:43:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-search-engines/105516256

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44528204

Points: 122

# Comments: 114

Murdoch University student fights accusation of illegal AI use in assignment

ahonhn — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:35:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/murdoch-university-student-fights-accusation-of-ai-use/105518732

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44528172

Points: 7

# Comments: 3