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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?

Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang? 6 by sathomasga | 1 comments on Hacker News. Since I saw this first in print, I imagine it's pretty old news. But I can't find any coverage of the relevant events on line. Page 55 of the September 2026 issue of _IEEE Spectrum_ includes the following: > # Notice to Membership > As of 21 June 2026. a Level 1 Expulsion has been imposed on IEEE Member Dr, Fei-Yue Wang, former editor-in-chief of the _IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles._ In accordance with IEEE Bylaw I-110.5(D)(i). Dr. Wang is no longer a member of IEEE, and is permanently banned from any type of membership in any IEEE organizational unit or participation in any IEEE activity. The Board of Directors also determined this notice to IEEE membership should be made. Dr. Wang ( https://ift.tt/B3psql2 ) is a prominent researcher, so this action would seem to be quite significant. Does anyone know the details?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls

Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls 5 by tkdb | 6 comments on Hacker News. I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile, specifically because there were too many silent missed calls. Silent meaning my device never showed I had a missed call. This was a pattern across more than a year, spanning multiple devices (all iphones). It happens on both wifi and cellular. It happens with wifi calling enabled and disabled. It happens with people I call every day, in my address book, as well as new contacts (say someone I met who called to follow up). I called support, searched online, reset network settings multiple times at different points months apart. After being on T-Mobile for about a year, the degraded service is about the same as Verizon. Every week, more than once, people call me, my phone never rings, and I never see a missed call on my device. It happens at home, at work, on work trips in different states. I still get missed calls regularly and my device sho...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you deal with cyber attacks once you scale?

Ask HN: How do you deal with cyber attacks once you scale? 4 by cehgmaster | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello, Legit question for tech department leaders. Our engineers have good solid knowledge on the security todo lists and does/don't. I saw the natural order of things where MVPs or quickly developed tools had to be refactored /redesigned to be more secure or at least up to standard. That's OK. However we are as strong as our weakest link. As we scaled, each department (also non-tech) slowly started being more proactive, mini tools developed by managers, or leaders, e.g CRM workflows, random scripts, docs, sheets, and now vibe coded tools. All of these are now potential attack vectors. We add to this: - Non-tech folks in the company, you impose rules, password managers and rotations, but you always have a small percentage of bad actors. - External users not putting good passwords, or using pwned passwords never changing them - Some product decisions or weaknesses built on ...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?

Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available? 2 by jviotti | 1 comments on Hacker News. We all pay for things. Either personal (like Spotify) or at your company (Slack). Out of those, which one would you swap if a better thing was available?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Who is smarter than you that you listen to what they have to say?

Ask HN: Who is smarter than you that you listen to what they have to say? 3 by SMAAART | 4 comments on Hacker News. I am trying to figure out how business and world economics are going to evolve in the next 3, 5, 10 years. I am pretty smart, but I am surely not the smartest; and I enjoy listening to what Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Dario and SamA have to say. Who is on your short (or long) list?

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Apple urgently needs a way to disable Apple Intelligence

Tell HN: Apple urgently needs a way to disable Apple Intelligence 2 by mococa | 5 comments on Hacker News. As title says, I/we dont’t need it.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How would you know if you have learned something?

Ask HN: How would you know if you have learned something? 2 by rearview | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have been thinking about this while working on building my own AI-based tutoring platform Socratix. AI made learning really easy, and that was the problem that made me worried. You can get an explanation anytime, nod, feel that you have understood it all, and in two days time fail to reconstruct it. On top of that there are hallucinations, inconsistencies, and information overload. I got really tired of all this. Thus, I decided to build my MVP based on one constraint only: nothing is "done" until it is defended. It is going to be a dependency-based curriculum, AI-validated lessons, sandboxed coding challenges, and at some point a short oral defense to get to the next topic. It is early and I might change the name. But I am sure that I am doing some things wrong that I would not do otherwise. What bothers me the most is the oral defense. Is it a good indicator of your und...