Hacker News: apwheele

Springer AI reference checks are not working

apwheele — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:28:04 +0000

Article URL: https://veruscite.com/blog/springer-ai-checks-are-not-working

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49629120

Points: 2

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New comment by apwheele in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

apwheele — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:41:22 +0000

They are relevant and courts have considered the whole of a persons movements standard in terms of whether querying ALPR data constitutes a search, https://andrewpwheeler.com/2026/08/12/license-plate-reader-s...

Under current case law (Carpenter and recently affirmed in Chatrie) it will definitely be a search, IMO it is just when the sensors become dense enough according to the court (absent states do not make regulation themselves to require a warrant for historical data).

New comment by apwheele in "Hallucinated Citations and Accuracy of Papers"

apwheele — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:29:32 +0000

I sent it to the moderation email this morning. Will update if I hear back.

Hallucinated Citations and Accuracy of Papers

apwheele — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:04:28 +0000

Article URL: https://veruscite.com/blog/hallucinated-citations-and-accuracy-of-papers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578452

Points: 2

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The high cost of free data: Why are cities paying so much for open data portals?

apwheele — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:14:21 +0000

Article URL: https://grandschema.substack.com/p/the-high-cost-of-free-data

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539346

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Some Cities Reward Careful Drivers with Fewer Red Lights

apwheele — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:48:53 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/rest-red-reward-drivers-portland-albuquerque-bcec5e0fe91dcaaaeb8f60e866ff7a37

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49520682

Points: 2

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New comment by apwheele in "Your AGENTS.md file doesn't do anything"

apwheele — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:16:25 +0000

This is what the majority of mine look like as well. Just simple instructions for things I need to do repeatedly.

I have not even really needed a formal memory system. If I see an error happen more than once, I just say "hey add a note on this to agents.md". Tends to be verbose but overall works quite well for the projects I am doing.

New comment by apwheele in "Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash"

apwheele — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:13:14 +0000

Is there a good example someone can show of naturally generating real videos using extending and interpolation from the last frames? (For any of the video generators).

I mean I have not tinkered that much, but trying to even get a video to 30 seconds (I just want a cartoon AI avatar to narrate tutorials) has been incredibly difficult. They drift so easily.

Many AI videos you can tell just stitch short clips together. I just want a continuous scene for like 30 seconds to 2 minutes.

Why I don't use Google Scholar in VerusCite

apwheele — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:24:20 +0000

Article URL: https://veruscite.com/blog/why-i-dont-use-google-scholar

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467357

Points: 4

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Hall of Hallucinated Citations in Published Papers

apwheele — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:57:41 +0000

Article URL: https://veruscite.com/hallucinations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49436254

Points: 3

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A Google DeepMind paper has multiple hallucinated references

apwheele — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:37:05 +0000

Article URL: https://veruscite-data.com/share/-7KyAgTQ6aqub5ilvQ_6_SVg2wkbjhp95pLeG3QFa-o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409192

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Notes on Crime Trends in the US

apwheele — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:04:05 +0000

Article URL: https://crimede-coder.com/blogposts/2026/CrimeTrends

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344450

Points: 4

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New comment by apwheele in "Don't classify, hallucinate!"

apwheele — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:29:34 +0000

This is another riff on not embedding a full document, but doing a summarization of the document and embedding the summary for RAG. Nice usecase for high cardinality data!

New comment by apwheele in "Flock updates privacy, accountability, security, and transparency safeguards"

apwheele — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:10:11 +0000

I did not know about this when I wrote https://andrewpwheeler.com/2026/08/12/license-plate-reader-s... the day prior, but one of the things I did state was deleting data (except in the extreme case, like New Hampshire's 3 minute retention), will not prevent abuse. People just do illegal queries over and over again.

Part of the reason I wrote that post is it is better to retain the data indefinitely and have a warrant standard than continue to reduce the time period in which the data is retained.

New comment by apwheele in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

apwheele — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:31:52 +0000

This is already the current status quo on paper. I bet the majority of the cases IJ identified of mis-use the PDs already had this policy. (That is the same standard when you do a background criminal history check in New York, need to put in a case number, FYI.)

I did not want to go into too many technical details on the post -- I think you could do an AI audit at the point in time of the search query to prevent people putting in junk cases. That said I believe there will always need to be third party audits at a minimum.

Part of the issue is policies on paper are not effectively enforced. So people saying "just have policy X to prevent abuse" is a non-answer.

I wrote the post mainly because people arguing for limited data retention I think is bad for both sides -- it neither protects civil liberties and simultaneously makes it harder for long term criminal investigations.

License plate reader searches should require a warrant

apwheele — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:43:39 +0000

Article URL: https://andrewpwheeler.com/2026/08/12/license-plate-reader-searches-should-require-a-warrant/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273165

Points: 644

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Show HN: VerusCite, a tool to check for hallucinations in academic articles

apwheele — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:45:45 +0000

Hello HackerNews --

I have created an application that verifies citations. Main motivation is to make checking for hallucinated citations in academic papers simpler/faster.

Can sign up for the tool at <https://veruscite-data.com/>, and can see the benchmark for metrics and some description of the methodology at <https://github.com/apwheele/veruscite-data>.

If you want to check out the approximate UI without signing up (at least the output), can see some examples:

https://veruscite-data.com/share/WWcj0furPRsDa8wlYKQSER1zQYp...

https://veruscite-data.com/share/xnHTxfP6bp7p3ZKdQegWuNvyQtX...

https://veruscite-data.com/share/3Pu3dwCfc-ixPgtHutVFXgMU7FY...

There are many minor errors in citation lists (maybe on the order of 5%). So even if you were not worried about hallucinations, it is useful for editors. If you sign up I have attempted to make the UI as easy as possible for a human to review the output and make changes (there are definitely errors, see the github for estimates of error rates).

So let me know what you think HN!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234321

Points: 1

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New comment by apwheele in "New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software"

apwheele — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:04:15 +0000

I cannot read this article, but this may be partly confused what this function by Carbyne does. If there is a flood of critical systems, it just plays an auto message "If this is about X, thank you and we know about it" if you called from the same area.

I don't remember from prior articles if at that point you just stay on the line, or if you need to press a button. It is not going through an AI voice call tree.

Show HN: VerusCite, a tool to check for hallucinations in academic articles

apwheele — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:30:49 +0000

Hello HackerNews --

I have created an application that verifies citations. Main motivation is to make checking for hallucinated citations in academic papers simpler/faster.

Can sign up for the tool at <https://veruscite-data.com/>, and can see the benchmark for metrics and some description of the methodology at <https://github.com/apwheele/veruscite-data>.

If you want to check out the approximate UI without signing up (at least the output), can see some examples:

https://veruscite-data.com/share/WWcj0furPRsDa8wlYKQSER1zQYp...

https://veruscite-data.com/share/xnHTxfP6bp7p3ZKdQegWuNvyQtX...

https://veruscite-data.com/share/3Pu3dwCfc-ixPgtHutVFXgMU7FY...

So let me know what you think HN!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172077

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by apwheele in "Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction"

apwheele — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:33:33 +0000

My money is on they used agentic AI coding tools to help set up all the metrics/experiments with traditional models.