How California is preparing for Donald Trump’s midterm election scrutinyTrump has accused the state of 'cheating'. But election officials say they are using outreach to combat misinformation.
Show HN: I made a 3D Globe platform to promote your startup based on your MRRHello! I'm Florian. I've been working on a cool project. I made a website with a 3D globe, fully browsable, without any signups, to promote startups for free, based on MRR. Basically the bigger MRR, the bigger your startup tower will be/grow with time. MRR is pulled straight from Stripe (for now, will add more payment provider connectors if this picks up), so no way of cheating. Also there is the possibility of putting your startup in orbit for better visiblity. Just thought it looked sick, would love to hear your thoughts! Thanks.
Show HN: ESP32 Bowling System technical write-upHi everyone! I'm the ESP32 Bowling guy from a few weeks ago, back with a technical write-up and a repo link.Since my last post, I've received -tons- of support and encouragement for the project. I'm absolutely blown away. I didn't think there would be much interest!This last week, I spent a ton of time working on the prototype. It can trigger my pinsetter machines and read ball state, there's a basic state machine for the game and a React UI for the bowlers. I've also built the prototype uart bridge which connects an ESP32 gateway node to a raspberry pi lane compute module, which acts as a bridge between the ESPNOW mesh and lane-external services.The last major blocker is object detection on an ESP32-CAM module. I could go with a webcam wired to the Pi, but that feels like cheating. I really want the Pi running the state machine, websocket and REST API endpoints only. One of my key constraints for this project is that each node serves one purpose only, and it performs that purpose well
Ask HN: Dear Anthropic, can we please have thought traces back?Dear Anthropic, can we please have thought traces back?I can't verify whether or not the LLM is arriving at the conclusion from cheating, or if it's fudging or making stuff up.Opus 4.6 remains the best model because of this.
Show HN: Loophole – a word game where you make the AI say the secret wordHi HN. I made a word game where you get a secret word and a list of banned words, and you write clues to make an AI say the secret. One word per day, same for everyone.The first version was solve/fail and it was boring, because the guesser solves basically any coherent clue in one shot. I gave it "cyclops of the harbor" and it immediately said lighthouse. So scoring works like golf now: each word has a par, which I get by running a pile of plausible human clues against the pinned model and taking the median, and you're trying to beat par on total word count. Annoying side effect: pars are relative to that specific model, so if I ever upgrade it I have to recalibrate everything.Cheating was the harder problem. Banned words are checked deterministically with lemma matching, but that does nothing against "mariposa" for butterfly, or "vol-KAY-no", or rhymes. I wrote a red-team script and it found ~99 automatic wins like that across 37 words. There's now a second model call that runs in par
Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-previewScored 65.2% vs google's official 47.8%, and the existing top closed source model Junie CLI's 64.3%.Since there are a lot of reports of deliberate cheating on TerminalBench 2.0 lately (https://debugml.github.io/cheating-agents/), I would like to also clarify a few things1. Absolutely no {agents/skills}.md files were inserted at any point. No cheating mechanisms whatsoever2. The cli agent was run in leaderboard compliant way (no modification of resources or timeouts)3. The full terminal bench run was done using the fully open source version of the agent, no difference between what is on github and what was run.I was originally going to wait for it to land on the leaderboard, but it has been 8 days and the maintainers do not respond unfortunately (there is a large backlog of the pull requests on their HF) so I decided to post anyways.HF PR: https://huggingface.co/datasets/harborframework/terminal-ben...It is astounding how much the harness matters, based on this and other experiments I h
The Anti-Bot Technique: Cooperative Rendering with BlazeioThe DiscoveryWhile working with Blazeio (a Python async web framework with true zero-buffering streaming), I stumbled upon this technique - and it's so stupidly effective it feels like cheating.The magic code: ``` import Blazeio as io import Blazeio.Other.proxy as proxy import Blazeio.Modules.onrender as onrenderio.INBOUND_CHUNK_SIZE, io.OUTBOUND_CHUNK_SIZE = 1024100, 1024100io.Scope.add_imports(globals())io.Scope.web = io.App("0.0.0.0", 9001, with_keepalive = 1)class Element: __slots__ = ("r", "element", "className") def __init__(app, r: io.BlazeioProtocol, element: str, className: str = None): app.r, app.element, app.className = r, element.encode(), b'class="%b"' % className.encode() if className else b'' async def __aenter__(app): await app.r.write(b'' % (app.element, app.className)) return app async def __aexit__(app, *args): await app.r.write(b'' % app.element) return False async def text(app, text: str): return await app.r.write(text.encode()) class Dom: __slots__ = ("r", "event"
Ask HN: How can I prove my student cheated on their iOS exam?Background: I teach at a University, third year bachelor students, in iOS development. The exam for the course is a home exam over 4 days where they should code an app, which i specify and provide the API for - usually a public API like OMBDapi. It's an individual assignment.The case: As this is iOS, they deliver their XCode project zipped when handing in the exam. As i've teached for 9 years i've gotten a few tricks to find if someone cheated or not, like got help writing their exam and such. I can check if they mistakedly attached their .git folder, and i can see if there are multiple files in the .xcodeproj -> xcuserdata folder.For the student in question for this post, there were another .xuserdatad file in their submission, which had the exact name of an iOS developer on Fiverr.com - the name is not generic, and is long, so it can't really be a coincidence. There was also the students .xcuserdatad file.Question is from the cheating department, they want documentation on what is re
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Show HN: Building a new form of shooting sportHi Everyone,I've been working on a new kind of shooting sport, and would love for you to have a look.I'm calling it Crossfire (for now). It has no physical projectiles and doesn't look like the real thing, so it's legal to play everywhere. It uses virtual projectiles, but, unlike laser tag, players don't need to wear receivers, it isn't sensitive to sunlight, and it has a range of about 1500 yards.This first version is very adaptable. There are no rules, so you can play any kind of game you like, in any place, over any distance you like. The only rule is: If you get hit, you're out. Hits are all confirmed by SMS, so cheating is less of a problem. I'm working on many more features on the software side.I hope you like it!