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Western AI models "fail spectacularly" in farms and forests abroad

https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-agriculture-local-data/
1•i7l•2m ago•0 comments

The War Trump Doesn't Want to Talk About

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/the-war-trump-doesnt-want-to-talk-about
1•petethomas•7m ago•0 comments

The State of the Culture (2024)

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024
1•dgudkov•8m ago•0 comments

"This Is Not the Computer for You"

https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
2•MBCook•10m ago•1 comments

AI Killed My Job: Educators

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/if-ai-is-writing-the-work-and-ai
1•cdrnsf•11m ago•0 comments

Harvey Weinstein gives first interview in six years, says prison life is "hell"

https://www.nme.com/news/film/harvey-weinstein-gives-first-interview-in-six-years-says-prison-lif...
1•tartoran•11m ago•0 comments

AI is great at writing code. It's terrible at making decisions

https://untangle.work/blog/ai-writes-code-terrible-at-decisions/
3•kdbgng•14m ago•0 comments

Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs

https://www.moment.dev/blog/lies-i-was-told-pt-2
2•antics•17m ago•0 comments

AI assistant with web search and reasoning

https://chatbot-ai-assistant.netlify.app
2•arturgvieira•20m ago•1 comments

The Psychological Edge That Separates Consistent Traders from Everyone Else

https://dollarsplan.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-psychological-edge-that-separates.html
1•aamoudaamoud•23m ago•0 comments

AI is helping expand the frontier of theoretical physics

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/03/11/ai-is-helping-expand-the-frontier-of-...
1•petethomas•24m ago•0 comments

Why Top-Down Orchestration Hits a Wall

https://nikogura.com/PuppetsAndOctopi.html
2•mooreds•28m ago•0 comments

Tool-Shaped Objects

https://minutes.substack.com/p/tool-shaped-objects
1•pocksuppet•28m ago•0 comments

Just tell me, when do we collectively f*cking this company?

https://twitter.com/i/status/2032265184610320628
1•egesabanci•30m ago•0 comments

Legacy Post

https://old.reddit.com/r/PisequaltoNP/comments/1rs9pmm/a_deterministic_oracle_machine_resolving_n...
1•KaoruAK•32m ago•1 comments

Competing for growth post singularity – when agents run firms

https://twitter.com/OttoZastrow/status/2025809384769737014
2•OttoZastrow•35m ago•1 comments

Technological Speed Limit

https://metastable.org/speed-limit/
1•gmays•41m ago•0 comments

The Cheese and the Worms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cheese_and_the_Worms
2•zeristor•44m ago•1 comments

Sucker: My Year as a Degenerate Gambler

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/online-sports-betting-app-addiction/686061/
2•csheehan10•45m ago•0 comments

I built a game where you guess the AI prompt behind images

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/i-built-a-game-where-you-guess-the-ai-prompt-behind-images-RakW...
1•irtizahammad•46m ago•0 comments

macOS for Developers: 5 Essential Skills to Master Terminal, Homebrew and Docker

https://rakiabensassi.substack.com/p/macos-for-developers-5-essential
1•rakiabensassi•46m ago•1 comments

The Moments That Made 2025

https://rakiabensassi.substack.com/p/the-moments-that-made-2025
1•rakiabensassi•48m ago•0 comments

The Great Transition or the Great Integration?

https://horkan.com/2026/03/12/the-great-transition-or-the-great-integration
1•wayne_horkan•49m ago•0 comments

Support Celestrak

https://giving.classy.org/campaign/750670/donate
1•d_silin•54m ago•0 comments

Adjustments to the China Storefront of the App Store on iOS and iPadOS

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=dadukodv
3•surprisetalk•57m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk: xAI was not built right first time round; is being rebuilt

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/2032201568335044978
5•mellosouls•1h ago•1 comments

Enhanced Atkinson Hyperlegible Font (2025)

https://www.brailleinstitute.org/about-us/news/braille-institute-launches-enhanced-atkinson-hyper...
1•droidjj•1h ago•0 comments

OSS Anti Surveillance: project to track, oppose, and remove surveillance in FOSS

https://github.com/AntiSurv/oss-anti-surveillance
1•iamnothere•1h ago•3 comments

Explainer: What is Basel and why has it been so contentious?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/what-is-basel-why-has-it-been-so-contentious-2026-03-12/
1•petethomas•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Common Infrastructure for Agentic Communication

https://cyrisai.dev/
1•krishnamzg•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI face recognition error links her to fraud

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud
91•danso•1h ago

Comments

orionblastar•56m ago
I have a face that looks like a lot of other people. I have a name that 500+ men use in the world. I don't do anything bad or criminal, but I could be mistaken for a man who matches my face. Nature creates patterns, and sometimes you get a Mr. Potato Head like me with a common face.
jacquesm•48m ago
Absolutely everybody has face doubles.

Identikit got pretty close and there weren't that many bits in there and quite a few of them were hairstyles and that's a choice, not genetics. How many head shapes, noses, eyes, mouths and ears can there be?

A few million? Then everybody has a few thousand doubles. 100 Million? Still 80.

tartoran•32m ago
That's why AI should not be used for identification alone, it's unreliable.
garciasn•27m ago
Correct; NIST recommended (~10 years ago) they be used together: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1721355115
lewdev•4m ago
There was a case where someone's finger prints matched someone who was later found to have an alibi and not be there.

So even finger prints are unreliable.

technothrasher•8m ago
> Absolutely everybody has face doubles.

I once had a waiter in a restaurant that I'd never been to before swear he'd seen me there many times, and when I denied it he was backed up by some of the other staff. Creepy, to say the least. Afterward I realized I should have given him my phone number and told him to call me next time "I" came in, so that I could meet my doppelganger.

awwaiid•26m ago
Yes -- I know at least 3 Orion Blasters.
hamburglar•14m ago
I wonder if any other men have your face and your name.
afavour•53m ago
Insane that this took six months. AI facial recognition should be considered about as reliable as a polygraph, which is to say not usable in court at all.

Shame we’ve got ICE agents roaming the country also using facial recognition to find their targets, huh?

tartoran•35m ago
I know polygraphs are not admissible in court but they're still being used and have quite a bit of swaying. I think it's mainly intimidation at play here.

Yeah, it's absolutely crazy that it took 6 months to clarify this, if she was rich and had a good lawyer she could've solved it faster. I really hope that she at least gets compensated and/or sues the operators or the AI company.

And as far as ICE, I think they don't care that they pick up the wrong people, they just have quotas to reach to unlock bonuses. It's cynical and sad as hell. Hopefully we're gonna be done with them once Trump is gone.

FpUser•20m ago
Trump is not a problem. System that lets him do what he does is. I used to admire the US back when I lived in USSR. You can guess the way I look at it lately. I still have some hope in people of the US, they seem to actually be capable to stand for their rights every once in a while. We'll see what happens.
Terr_•25m ago
More insult+injury:

> But Lipps said Fargo police did not pay for her trip home, leaving her stranded. Local defense attorneys helped cover a hotel room and food on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and a local non-profit, the F5 Project, was able to help her return to Tennessee, InForum reported.

How the hell are authorities not responsible for helping an innocent person back after forcing them to travel at the point of a gun?

InMice•10m ago
I read she had no winter clothes, not even a jacket to go outside in the cold when they released her. She was arrested in TN during warm weather. Not all of the news sites reported the story in complete detail. Her treatment was truly appalling.
DarkmSparks•50m ago
US legal system still as world leading as ever I see.

For all the wrong reasons.

Recommended compensation: $1500 per hour.

JumpCrisscross•49m ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356968
dylan604•47m ago
Fargo Police Department. That tracks. Are we sure the Cohens were not involved?
angry_octet•18m ago
I would really love to see the Cohens make a reenactment documentary about American injustices, with the lead-in being "These are real events that happened, names have not been changed."
Barbing•28m ago
>(saved by her bank records)

Don't worry if unbanked, the commercial app industry is already here to save you.

“My Location Ledger” https://apps.apple.com/us/app/my-location-ledger/id675780680...

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t aware that some of the various parties already spying on me do have a one in 1 million chance of coming in handy. To that end, tried this years ago but didn’t work immediately:

“OwnTracks” (FOSS) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/owntracks/id692424691

PS: Flock be ready for our location requests in emergencies, only fair

lewdev•7m ago
How was she saved by her bank records when they already arrested her like she was proven to have done it? How little evidence do cops need to go arrest a woman 1,200 miles away and fuck up her life? And then not even apologize for it? That's fucked up.