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The Crumbling Workflow Moat: Aggregation Theory's Final Chapter

https://twitter.com/nicbstme/status/2019149771706102022
1•SubiculumCode•1m ago•0 comments

Pax Historia – User and AI powered gaming platform

https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PMu-pax-historia-user-ai-powered-gaming-platform
1•Osiris30•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a RAG engine to search Singaporean laws

https://github.com/adityaprasad-sudo/Explore-Singapore
1•ambitious_potat•8m ago•0 comments

Scams, Fraud, and Fake Apps: How to Protect Your Money in a Mobile-First Economy

https://blog.afrowallet.co/en_GB/tiers-app/scams-fraud-and-fake-apps-in-africa
1•jonatask•8m ago•0 comments

Porting Doom to My WebAssembly VM

https://irreducible.io/blog/porting-doom-to-wasm/
1•irreducible•9m ago•0 comments

Cognitive Style and Visual Attention in Multimodal Museum Exhibitions

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/15/16/2968
1•rbanffy•10m ago•0 comments

Full-Blown Cross-Assembler in a Bash Script

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/06/full-blown-cross-assembler-in-a-bash-script/
1•grajmanu•15m ago•0 comments

Logic Puzzles: Why the Liar Is the Helpful One

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/knights-and-knaves/
1•wasabi991011•27m ago•0 comments

Optical Combs Help Radio Telescopes Work Together

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/03/optical-combs-help-radio-telescopes-work-together/
2•toomuchtodo•32m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Myanon – fast, deterministic MySQL dump anonymizer

https://github.com/ppomes/myanon
1•pierrepomes•38m ago•0 comments

The Tao of Programming

http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
1•alexjplant•39m ago•0 comments

Forcing Rust: How Big Tech Lobbied the Government into a Language Mandate

https://medium.com/@ognian.milanov/forcing-rust-how-big-tech-lobbied-the-government-into-a-langua...
2•akagusu•39m ago•0 comments

PanelBench: We evaluated Cursor's Visual Editor on 89 test cases. 43 fail

https://www.tryinspector.com/blog/code-first-design-tools
2•quentinrl•41m ago•2 comments

Can You Draw Every Flag in PowerPoint? (Part 2) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BztF7MODsKI
1•fgclue•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP-baepsae – MCP server for iOS Simulator automation

https://github.com/oozoofrog/mcp-baepsae
1•oozoofrog•50m ago•0 comments

Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamer's Take on Agentic AI Safety

https://github.com/Deso-PK/make-trust-irrelevant
6•DesoPK•54m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Sem – Semantic diffs and patches for Git

https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/sem/
1•rs545837•55m ago•1 comments

Hello world does not compile

https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1
33•mfiguiere•1h ago•20 comments

Show HN: ZigZag – A Bubble Tea-Inspired TUI Framework for Zig

https://github.com/meszmate/zigzag
3•meszmate•1h ago•0 comments

Metaphor+Metonymy: "To love that well which thou must leave ere long"(Sonnet73)

https://www.huckgutman.com/blog-1/shakespeare-sonnet-73
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Show HN: Django N+1 Queries Checker

https://github.com/richardhapb/django-check
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Emacs-tramp-RPC: High-performance TRAMP back end using JSON-RPC instead of shell

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•todsacerdoti•1h ago•0 comments

Protocol Validation with Affine MPST in Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev
1•o8vm•1h ago•1 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
4•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Zest – A hands-on simulator for Staff+ system design scenarios

https://staff-engineering-simulator-880284904082.us-west1.run.app/
1•chanip0114•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: DeSync – Decentralized Economic Realm with Blockchain-Based Governance

https://github.com/MelzLabs/DeSync
1•0xUnavailable•1h ago•0 comments

Automatic Programming Returns

https://cyber-omelette.com/posts/the-abstraction-rises.html
1•benrules2•1h ago•1 comments

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation [pdf]

https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/Why%20Are%20there%20Still%20So%20Many%...
2•oidar•1h ago•0 comments

The Search Engine Map

https://www.searchenginemap.com
1•cratermoon•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Souls.directory – SOUL.md templates for AI agent personalities

https://souls.directory
1•thedaviddias•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Three wrongly accused over child abuse images after BT gets 'wires crossed'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgknm8xrgpo
12•GaryBluto•3mo ago

Comments

SilverElfin•3mo ago
> The tribunal heard all three had to tell their employers about the accusations made against them.

> The innocent woman was advised her children could not live with her alone until she was cleared, and the two men faced child protection referrals. The first male claimant was placed on restricted duties at work and the second had a job offer withdrawn.

> The three were never charged, and police later identified and prosecuted the actual offender who lived nearby.

> The tribunal did not find grounds for compensation or remedies for the three claimants, as the force had acted within the law and responded appropriately once the error was discovered.

I cannot believe that there is no compensation for the affected individuals. They lives were destroyed. Their employers were notified. They could not carry on their normal lives as parents. Its damage extends to the children of the defendants. Surely there should be massive compensation and also jail time for the false accusation - otherwise why would there be any incentive to do better?

ratelimitsteve•3mo ago
wild, other professionals are responsible when their mistakes cause damage. when did we in the west start moving toward a model where law enforcement has a lower standard of responsibility than everyone else?
drweevil•3mo ago
>The tribunal did not find grounds for compensation or remedies for the three claimants, as the force had acted within the law

I totally agree that they should be held responsible. Acting "within the law" is not sufficient. Their job is to get it right. They got it wrong. Doesn't matter how; tech is not infallible, and they should know and consider that before ruining someone's reputation based solely on an IP address. Other forensic evidence is not treated in this cavalier manner. Neither should computer tech. I thought they might have learned this lesson after the Post Office scandal, but apparently not.

ratelimitsteve•3mo ago
they did learn their lesson after the post office scandal. They learned that they make the law, and can just declare themselves not responsible for their own actions, and that far from disqualifying them from management decisions the fact that machines can't be held accountable makes them a nifty layer of insulation between people who hurt people and people who get hurt.

They'll still arrest you for implying support for forbidden ideas, though. Not for actually hurting people, and evidently not for child sex abuse in some cases, but there always seems to be a spare officer available if someone has an idea that enough people find unpleasant.

duxup•3mo ago
Innocent until proven guilty can be frustrating but in this case these folks were harmed just because of "accusations" from a technical wiring issue... Totally absurd.
wmf•3mo ago
At least their names aren't public. In the US such a mix-up would be much worse.
duxup•3mo ago
They're not public, but in this case they were required to tell their employers and couldn't live with their children.

I guess it is good that strangers didn't find out ... but rather everyone close to these people was told the lie.

I'm not sure any of this is better.

rolph•3mo ago
BT junctionbox

https://storage.googleapis.com/dteproqbzojyte/wiring-bt-junc... [IMG]

this is typical, unless its a very small zone, then you only have a handfull.

easy to make a mistake in a rush, not so easy to identify a particular pair unless you use a probe and tracer on the dropline.

once someone knows thier pairs, they can swap for someone else. its amazing how discrete a workvest and helmet can be if line work is going on already.