<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: guidedlight</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=guidedlight</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 22:29:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=guidedlight" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by guidedlight in "Is AI Profitable Yet?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The US “loses” $1T every ~150 days on delivering basic government services, and every US citizen is on the hook for that, not just investors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 03:56:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244508</link><dc:creator>guidedlight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by guidedlight in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The bottleneck in fixing bugs like these is the human capacity to triage, report, and design and deploy patches for them. Finding them in the first place has become vastly more straightforward with Mythos Preview.<p>This has always been the bottleneck. Automated tools love to flag vulnerabilities, but almost all are false positives. These need to be triaged and evaluated by humans.
This is okay. I’d rather close a false positive after a careful review than miss it altogether.<p>I don’t think it’s appropriate for calling out humans as a bottleneck. They are an essential part of the process, I’m sure Mythos will also become a catalyst in the process.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 22:43:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242553</link><dc:creator>guidedlight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242553</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by guidedlight in "Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Name, city, state, ZIP, email, phone<p>Does this work for anyone outside the US as well?
e.g. Will it work for an Australian?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 12:11:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178593</link><dc:creator>guidedlight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178593</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by guidedlight in "America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You know there are 34 countries in America other than the United States.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157333">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157333</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>Security issues aside, they are a nightmare in enterprise environments where internet and OS access is heavily restricted.</p>
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<p>They should probably go back to the original invite only flow they used when Gmail launched.<p>Every account having the ability to invite an only small finite number of new accounts is one way to thwart scammers.</p>
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<p>I remember the form designer was a standout feature. Microsoft added a complete UI framework into VB for DOS based on the standard ASCII character set.<p>VB for DOS really needed a version 2.0, but it never got it.</p>
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<p>I have a lot of fond memories of Visual Basic for MS-DOS 1.0.<p>I remember saving up for it at high school with my student discount. From memory it was about $120.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 06:13:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48081445</link><dc:creator>guidedlight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48081445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48081445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by guidedlight in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh right. Almost everyone in the world has free and easy access to actual doctors.<p>For that one country that doesn’t maybe universal healthcare can be an Anthropic model.</p>
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<p>I agree. I think the issue with LLM’s are not with the correct diagnoses’s but rather the incorrect ones.<p>Real doctors tend to have a degree of cautiousness. I would rather a real doctor be hesitate and seek more information, than an alarmist LLM suggesting I have cancer.</p>
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<p>This definitely wasn’t on my bingo card.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 21:49:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980876</link><dc:creator>guidedlight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980876</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by guidedlight in "KLM cancels 160 flights due to fuel shortage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>160 flights isn’t really that many, I suspect they are all on commercially marginal routes to begin with.<p>In my region, quite a few airlines have cut routes citing the fuel crisis. Including Qantas, Virgin Australia, and Air New Zealand. But again, we aren’t seeing widespread cancellations yet.</p>
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<p>We had a mass murder in Australia a few years ago involving death cap mushrooms. 3 of the 4 victims died, and the 4th required a liver transplant.<p>Surprisingly the doctors involved quickly identified mushrooms as the culprit, despite that the 75% died.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leongatha_mushroom_murders" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leongatha_mushroom_murders</a><p>It was a super interesting court case.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:12:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791862</link><dc:creator>guidedlight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791862</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by guidedlight in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If a website/app requests you to prove your age, you can’t optionally avoid it and continue to use the website/app.</p>
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<p>The issue is that if you don’t prove your age, access is blocked.<p>So it’s not optional. At least in Australia.</p>
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<p>I would rather prove my age to Apple than [insert random website].<p>I think that’s what Apple is banking on. They sell privacy as a feature of their products, and I’m grateful for that.</p>
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<p>> Our phone numbers are not identifiers.<p>I think you missed the point. The process creates an identifier, by strongly associating you with the phone number.<p>This association allows the bank to quickly establish your identity later when you call up or use online services.</p>
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<p>Surprisingly, I immediately noticed that “Gaming Copilot” is missing (i.e. The version of Copilot that Microsoft shoehorned into the Xbox mobile app).</p>
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<p>It has always amazed me that the US is so unusually rich in a variety of natural resources.</p>
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