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Facial recognition works better in the lab than on the street, researchers show

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/facial_recognition_benchmarks/
3•Cynddl•1h ago

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JohnFen•1h ago
It's a standard trap for new players: everything always works better in the lab than in the messy real world.

Kafka to Iceberg – Exploring the Options

https://rmoff.net/2025/08/18/kafka-to-iceberg-exploring-the-options/
1•mooreds•42s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Randomly switching between LMs at every step boosts SWE-bench score

https://www.swebench.com/SWE-bench/blog/2025/08/19/mini-roulette/
2•lieret•1m ago•0 comments

Boost Your Website Traffic

https://dicloak.com/blog-detail/dicloak-traffic-bot-boost-website-traffic-with-smart-humanlike-automation
1•DICloak•1m ago•1 comments

Everyone Is on Fire

https://drjoshcsimmons.substack.com/p/everyone-is-on-fire
2•joshcsimmons•2m ago•0 comments

What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02616-5
1•rntn•4m ago•0 comments

The free tier death cult

https://arnon.dk/the-free-tier-death-cult/
1•arnon•4m ago•0 comments

StreetViewAI: Making Street View Accessible Using Context-Aware Multimodal AI [pdf]

https://makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu/media/publications/Froehlich_StreetviewaiMakingStreetViewAccessibleUsingContextAwareMultimodalAi_UIST2025.pdf
1•azhenley•5m ago•0 comments

The Cricket as a Thermometer (1897)

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/276739
2•firefax•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Online equivalence checker for JavaScript RegExp

https://gruhn.github.io/regex-utils/equiv-checker.html
1•ngruhn•6m ago•0 comments

Alphabet of Human Thought

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_of_human_thought
1•ewf•8m ago•0 comments

The Blast Playbook

https://www.neelsomaniblog.com/p/the-blast-playbook
1•nsomani•8m ago•0 comments

The Story of A Prompt Engineer - The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtkmFN26VuU
1•nevster•9m ago•0 comments

DNA Methylation in Long Covid

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/virology/articles/10.3389/fviro.2024.1371683/full
1•FollowingTheDao•10m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What are you biggest mental / relational challenges?

1•ada1981•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A neat news website curated and generated by AI

https://neat.news
2•sumeruchat•14m ago•0 comments

Peeking Under the Hood of Claude Code

https://medium.com/@outsightai/peeking-under-the-hood-of-claude-code-70f5a94a9a62
2•ghuntley•14m ago•0 comments

Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html
16•taviso•15m ago•4 comments

Show HN: A tool to easily juggle sets of environment variables

https://github.com/paholg/envswitch
1•paholg•16m ago•0 comments

Const Trait Counterexamples

https://dbeef.dev/const-trait-counterexamples/
3•Bogdanp•16m ago•0 comments

Crypto groups accuse banks of attempting to 'relitigate' stablecoin law

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5461363-crypto-groups-accuse-banks-relitigation/
1•petethomas•16m ago•0 comments

American

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/06/28/american/
3•wiredfool•19m ago•0 comments

The Indian cafes where you can pay in rubbish

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250818-the-indian-garbage-cafes-giving-out-food-in-exchange-for-plastic-waste
2•Brajeshwar•20m ago•0 comments

How North Korea's IT army is hacking the global job market

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/19/north-korea-it-worker-fraud-fortune-500
2•Brajeshwar•20m ago•0 comments

The Secret Gardens Saving the Rarest Plants

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/plant-rescue-centers
1•Brajeshwar•21m ago•0 comments

Your kid is using AI for homework this year. Now what?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/health/using-ai-for-homework-wellness
1•mooreds•23m ago•3 comments

Streamdown by Vercel: streaming-safe drop-in replacement for react-markdown

https://streamdown.ai
2•mustaphah•23m ago•0 comments

LibreOffice – Buttons Should Support Opening Forms, Reports, Tables and Queries

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155175
1•maverick74•24m ago•0 comments

Winged ferry that glides like a pelican tested for coastal transportation

https://apnews.com/article/seaglider-flying-boat-regent-craft-fa6753aceb96a945f6a1f8855cc4e9c9
1•petethomas•24m ago•0 comments

Dramatic slowdown in melting of Arctic sea ice surprises scientists

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/20/slowdown-in-melting-of-arctic-sea-ice-surprises-scientists
1•gjsman-1000•24m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: GitHub API Down Again?

1•alxndr13•25m ago•0 comments