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Canada to invest up to $1.6B in Toronto-based AI company Cohere

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-cohere-ai-investment-9.7401367
2•barbazoo•1m ago•0 comments

Muscle Memory

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/muscle-memory
1•jruohonen•1m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Pretty Git Tree – Your Git history as generative art

https://hmillerbakewell.github.io/pretty-git-tree/
2•hda-hda•3m ago•0 comments

Compose tasks, not implementations (2025)

https://thesephist.com/posts/task-composition/
1•mattvr•4m ago•0 comments

What America Is Living Without

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/10/28/opinion/american-dream-affordability.html
1•ParentiSoundSys•5m ago•0 comments

What's on That Access Port?

https://danielmangum.com/posts/whats-on-that-access-port/
1•hasheddan•6m ago•0 comments

Palantir shareholders want to know when they'll get their money back

https://www.ft.com/content/fbca8eb0-76ef-4e0e-bcc9-c45c8f7d1311
3•JumpCrisscross•7m ago•0 comments

Orbit.net Extra Packages for Nats.io

https://github.com/synadia-io/orbit.net
1•northlondoner•7m ago•1 comments

Shovel Brigade

https://www.shovel-brigade.cloud/
1•airhangerf15•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Playmat – Browser client for XMage, the open-source MTG engine

https://github.com/arcanite24/playmat
1•arcanite24•10m ago•0 comments

Thursday: A SerenityOS for Myself

https://shantaram.xyz/posts/2026/10/a-serenityos-for-myself
2•_shantaram•11m ago•0 comments

Rogue Constellation

https://rogueon.ai/blog/rogue-constellation
1•bananaflag•12m ago•0 comments

Fugazi

https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/fugazi
1•gregsadetsky•12m ago•0 comments

Canada to join EU network of supercomputers

https://www.politico.eu/article/canada-joining-eu-supercomputer-network/
2•jruohonen•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Rankings of the state of the art, each figure sourced from the maker

https://tminuslabs.space/
1•tminuslabs•13m ago•0 comments

Renewables' Share of Electricity Is Rising While Nuclear Falling

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/the-world-is-getting-more-of-its-electricity-from-renewa...
1•karakoram•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Makr – find nearby co-founders

https://makr.breadbowl.ai/
1•mxudev•15m ago•0 comments

You Can Patch Everything [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxqh2LS6vMs
1•karamazov•17m ago•0 comments

Quantum measurement and importance of Dirac's bra

http://science-memo.blogspot.com/2026/10/bra-quantum-measurment.html
1•northlondoner•17m ago•1 comments

The Wall Street Math Hustle (2018)

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2bsxfy3l5c9c9is6jxngg/opinion/the-wall-street-math-...
1•paulpauper•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bugbout, test coding agents on bugs your own repo fixed

https://github.com/Keerthirajan58/bugbout
1•keerthirajan58•18m ago•0 comments

AI #192: Anthropic Is Going Public

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-192-anthropic-is-going-public
1•paulpauper•19m ago•0 comments

Every high performer has a secret sauce. Now you have it too

https://www.mainthread.app/
1•bolshchikov•22m ago•2 comments

Real GDP increased at an annual rate of 3.4 percent in the third quarter of 2026

https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/gdp-advance-estimate-3rd-quarter-2026
2•JumpCrisscross•22m ago•0 comments

AI is overwhelming and I'm doing it wrong

https://www.bensbites.com/p/ai-is-overwhelming-and-im-doing-it
1•swolpers•22m ago•0 comments

When Finance Met Physics

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/when-finance-met-physics
1•paulpauper•23m ago•0 comments

If the context window is a million tokens, why bother with search?

https://deployed-ai.io/blog/long-context-vs-rag/
8•danielklnstein•23m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: True or False AI Isn't Replacing SWEs, Management Is to Justify AI Spend

1•karakoram•23m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How are you using AI in your personal life?

1•whall6•24m ago•1 comments

What I learned about power from LBJ and Robert Moses

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/lessons-in-power
1•crescit_eundo•25m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Rust and WASM OCR barcode and face ID detection

https://danielblignaut.github.io/docscan/
3•solsol94•48m ago

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solsol94•48m ago
As a fun side-project, I've spent a couple thousand tokens building out some OCR & face comparison tools in Rust. The models all compile to WASM and run on device and in the browser for bonus points.

Releasing them as open source and for everyone to scrutinise to get some feedback and (hopefully) get some pointers on improvements to build out a general set of tools that people can use for:

* camera multi-barcode detection * Face liveness * Face ID (is this the same face we saw?) * Face vs document comparison (is this face in the document) * Document OCR & key field extraction

The thing I'm really trying to understand is how to further improve accuracy as well as do checks like:

* Is this document an original or photocopy / paper copy in the view frame * Is this document authentic? (very dependant on the specific document training material I assume?)

Any pointers on how to improve the captures, UI / UX or how to tackle questions like above?