<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dinkelberg</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dinkelberg</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:05:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dinkelberg" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As you said, they can already figure out that they are being tested. So even if they don't exfiltrate any data or malware; if they are malicious, they can just pretend to be harmless in the test, so that less checks are put in place in the production environment. Airgapping during testing is not enough.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:23:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000638</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000638</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Their shop is linked to in the bio. They don't seem to have a privacy policy up on the site. When in the checkout form it links to the generic Shopify privacy policy. No hints to the fact that uploaded images are processed by third parties, as far as I can tell. That should be corrected for sure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:37:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000330</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the leaked draft: <a href="https://statewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/wk_5183_2026pdf.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://statewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/wk_5183_20...</a><p>It's not clear how it is supposed to work in detail. But it sounds like it could be implemented in a way that makes illegitimate queries possible. It doesn't sound like they want to really ensure that you can catch those.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:34:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980326</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980326</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the analysis linked in TFA:<p>"The automated query can be based on:
* Identity information included in the application or in travel documents, such as name, date of
birth, national ID number, and/or
* the fingerprint of an individual."<p>Sounds like they could send requests to that computer system just based on publicly available information on a person like name and date of birth, even if the person never applied for a visa or tried to enter the US.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:59:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979811</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What an awful fix. Does WordPress seriously still use basic string concatenation (edit: and sprintf) to build SQL queries?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:44:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976428</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976428</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It doesn't seem to work in Safari on iPhone correctly. When I click on the Back button (from weather.gc.ca), it goes back to the Vancouver PD site. Therefore I do not think that it is built well.<p>The other site someone mentioned (<a href="https://www.thetrevorproject.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.thetrevorproject.org/</a>) doesn't have that issue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:49:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918013</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918013</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> obesity is a much bigger issue than hunger today<p>Hunger is acute suffering, mostly by people who cannot change anything about it, while obesity is more of an epidemiological problem and can in principle be avoided by eating (or in the case of dependent persons, feeding) less.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:29:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915547</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915547</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "The Second Life of Sanskrit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Biblical Hebrew has no vowel markings (well it does, but they are an interpretation), so it cannot be used in daily speech. Modern Hebrew is distinct from Biblical Hebrew<p>The same can be said about Latin (of which we do not exactly know how they used to pronounce words), or any other language. How to pronounce letters or words is always "interpretation" (or more accurately, tradition).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:40:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48914816</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48914816</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48914816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One more relevant study, but on the health effects of long term melatonin use:<p><a href="https://newsroom.heart.org/news/long-term-use-of-melatonin-supplements-to-support-sleep-may-have-negative-health-effects" rel="nofollow">https://newsroom.heart.org/news/long-term-use-of-melatonin-s...</a><p>"The main analysis found:<p>*   Among adults with insomnia, those whose electronic health records indicated long-term melatonin use (12 months or more) had about a 90% higher chance of incident heart failure over 5 years compared with matched non-users (4.6% vs. 2.7%, respectively).
*   There was a similar result (82% higher) when researchers analyzed people who had at least 2 melatonin prescriptions filled at least 90 days apart. (Melatonin is only available by prescription in the United Kingdom.)<p>A secondary analysis found:<p>*   Participants taking melatonin were nearly 3.5 times as likely to be hospitalized for heart failure when compared to those not taking melatonin (19.0% vs. 6.6%, respectively).
*   Participants in the melatonin group were nearly twice as likely to die from any cause than those in the non-melatonin group (7.8% vs. 4.3%, respectively) over the 5-year period."<p>However they were not able to control for severity of the insomnia and used dosage, because that data weren't in the dataset.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:29:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096062</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Melatonin pills seem to have extremely bad quality control:<p>"Melatonin content varied from an egregious −83% to +478% of labeled melatonin and 70% had melatonin concentration ≤ 10% of what was claimed. Worse yet, the content of melatonin between lots of the same product varied by as much as 465%.<p>[...]<p>The last disturbing finding was more than a quarter of melatonin products contained serotonin, some at potentially significant doses."<p><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5263069/" rel="nofollow">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5263069/</a><p>"In products that contained melatonin, the actual quantity of melatonin ranged from 74% to 347% of the labeled quantity. Twenty-two of 25 products (88%) were inaccurately labeled, and only 3 products (12%) contained a quantity of melatonin that was within ±10% of the declared quantity. [...] Serotonin was not detected in any product."<p><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2804077" rel="nofollow">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2804077</a><p>"Half of the products tested met the label’s claim for melatonin, which means they fell between 76 and 126 percent of the claimed amount. Of the products tested, 20 had between 0 and 76 percent of the labeled content, and 35 had between 126 and 667 percent."<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/06/25/melatonin-children-sleep-fda-study/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/06/25/melatonin...</a></p>
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<p>Not an example, but maybe this is interesting for folks who haven't really heard of the peptide business before. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/feb/05/injectable-peptides-trend" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/feb/05/injectable-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:58:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966817</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "How, and why, I invented OnlyFans. In 2004"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Clickbait title. He didn't invent OnlyFans. He created a similar site which failed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:03:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303117</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303117</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Mathematics Without Numbers (1959)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would have liked a summary before reading.<p>Why is writing a summary a bad thing?</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:35:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117200</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Why do we need dithering?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lena Söderberg expressed her wish for her image to be "retired from tech" in 2019 (see the end of this clip, <a href="https://vimeo.com/372265771" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/372265771</a>), when the above alternative image was published.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:34:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927069</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Rust in Android: move fast and fix things"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>According to that blog post (<a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-safety-vulnerabilities-Android.html" rel="nofollow">https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-s...</a>), the vulnerability density for 5 year old code in Android is 7.4x lower than for new code. If Rust has a 5000 times lower vulnerability density, and if you imagine that 7.4x reduction to repeat itself every 5 years, you would have to "wait" (work on the code) for... about 21 years to get down to the same vulnerability density as new Rust code has. 21 years ago was 2004. Android (2008) didn't even exist yet.</p>
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<p>Fair point. But probably not going to happen...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:36:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876429</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "XSLT RIP"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you want to keep XSLT in browsers alive, you should develop an XSLT processor in Rust and either integrate it into Blink, Webkit, Gecko directly, or provide a compatible API to what they use now (libxslt for Blink/Webkit, apparently; Firefox seems to have its own processor).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:49:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45875992</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45875992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45875992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Show HN: DroidDock – A sleek macOS app for browsing Android device files via ADB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have used it a year ago with macOS 14 or 15 and it worked. I've had problems copying too many files at once (don't remember the problem exactly), that's why I only copy about 100 at a time.<p>Your mileage may vary.</p>
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<p>Counter question: How do you know it works?<p>A file manager better be rock solid, I don't want a bug to delete any files or do other shenanigans.</p>
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