Can anything be done for bad pixels like this?
Try extracting the interlaced DNGs with an older raw2dng (or delete the HDR code from it). Then, decompose them by enabling the debug flags in cr2hdr (those files with "dark.dng", "bright.dng", "fullres.dng" and so on).
If the hot pixels are not isolated, they are not corrected because they may be mistaken for aliasing. So, a hot pixel is only corrected if it's clearly brighter than its neighbours.
edit: I've just removed the old processing code from raw2dng, because:
- raw format is near end of life
- quality is much better with cr2hdr
- the cr2hdr workflow isn't that hard (extra step: select all, drag and drop)
- the algorithm is still improving, so it's easier to maintain a single way for doing things