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The Wisdom of the Galaxy by Will McMahon

https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/the-wisdom-of-the-galaxy/
1•speckx•24s ago•0 comments

Anders Hejlsberg: 10x Faster TypeScript, Why AI Won't Replace SWEs [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cywK3XYYJ2o
1•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

We built our own hiring platform (and ate our own dog food in the process)

https://blog.pagelove.com/posts/building-our-own-hiring-platform.html
1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

'For You' feeds amplify outrage

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/08/social-media-for-you-algorithms-engagement-outrage
1•DeepLogin•1m ago•0 comments

Operation CameraSwarm: 14,500 Dahua Cameras Compromised via P2P Relay Abuse

https://cyberupdates365.com/operation-cameraswarm-dahua-cameras/
1•udayhero•1m ago•0 comments

7.5x faster encryption in Go with the new "simd" and "simd/archsimd" packages

https://kerkour.com/golang-chacha20-encryption-simd-archsimd
1•cold_pizz4•1m ago•0 comments

Urge Surfer

https://urgesurfer.surf/
1•martimchaves•3m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Launder, a puzzle you can only win by removing SynthID watermarks

https://launder.sshh.io/
1•sshh12•4m ago•0 comments

Sibbo – track what AI learned from you

https://sibbo.app
1•katrinshechtman•4m ago•0 comments

The $1 Trillion Black Box

https://www.propublica.org/article/military-defense-spending-budget-series
1•Brajeshwar•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Codex CLI compiled to WASM running in the browser

https://browsercode.io/agents/codex
1•yuri91•4m ago•0 comments

Democrats Are Failing the Waymo Test

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/democrats-waymo-safety-jobs/688324/
1•xnx•5m ago•1 comments

Hadamard Codes and Sphere Packing

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/13/hadamard-sphere-packing/
1•ibobev•5m ago•0 comments

Agent Plugins Standard

https://agent-plugins.org
1•ajackfox•5m ago•0 comments

Compressing a Hadamard Matrix

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/15/compressing-a-hadamard-matrix/
1•ibobev•5m ago•0 comments

Probability of Correcting Errors

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/15/probability-of-correcting-errors/
1•ibobev•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Returnsview – monthly return heatmaps for crypto, stocks and more

https://returnsview.com/
1•jbyow25•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pack AI and scientific models as self-contained boxes

https://github.com/suffro/scrollcase
1•Suffro•8m ago•0 comments

Conversationaly – Privacy-First AI Meeting Assistant

https://github.com/bykof/conversationaly/
1•bykof•8m ago•1 comments

Brian Tracy tells story of Alexander the Great (2013) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJuC6CRHRQo
1•thelastgallon•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP app for Android, drive apps via AI (no root, PII redacted locally)

https://github.com/danielealbano/android-remote-control-mcp/
1•daniele_dll•12m ago•0 comments

Proposal to prohibit vibe coded projects from being hosted on Sourcehut

https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3CDKSTMKM0ZD9N.2FTBDFREZH699@ddevault.org%3E
8•surprisetalk•12m ago•5 comments

The Feedback Cap: Lehman's laws in the age of AI agents

https://adaptivesoftware.substack.com/p/your-ab-tests-are-limiting-what-your
1•beerdappel•12m ago•1 comments

Edmonton Marathon apologizes, says detour error lengthened 2026 race distances

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-marathon-distance-apology-9.7311360
1•nianderwallace•13m ago•0 comments

GitHub Copilot trusted a client header for premium-request billing

https://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/i-changed-one-http-header-in-github
2•j0selit0•13m ago•1 comments

Omarchy Core Team Announced

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/the-omarchy-core-team/
1•migmartri•13m ago•0 comments

Improving the Matrix Multiplication Exponent

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16884
1•aaraujo002•13m ago•0 comments

I built a 2M-pixel canvas solo, with AI as the team

https://theaierahomepage.com
1•bundgas•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Progressive web-app to explore Paris while solving puzzles without app

https://flanori.com/
2•rhazn•17m ago•0 comments

The Souq: Value Creation and Extraction in OpenRouter

https://robvc.com/research/the-souq
1•pama•17m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Sainsbury's store pauses AI scanning after false shoplifting accusation

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/17/humiliated-sainsburys-store-pauses-ai-scanning-after-false-shoplifting-accusation
1•iamnothere•44m ago

Comments

_joel•41m ago
thought I recognised the face
jxf•38m ago
> Customers can be reassured that the Facewatch system has a 99.98% accuracy rate, and every match is reviewed by a trained manager.

That's not "reassuring" at all. If Sainsbury's gets, say, 10M customers per week, then that means 2,000 people per week are being falsely accused.

Likewise, if you visit Sainsbury's twice a week for groceries, the odds are favorable that at some point in your life you will be falsely accused, even with a 99.98% accuracy rate.

iamnothere•28m ago
Exactly, and it’s not like you can easily change your face.