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Shall I implement it? No

https://gist.github.com/bretonium/291f4388e2de89a43b25c135b44e41f0
861•breton•5h ago•311 comments

Malus – Clean Room as a Service

https://malus.sh
1056•microflash•12h ago•405 comments

Bubble Sorted Amen Break

https://parametricavocado.itch.io/amen-sorting
265•eieio•9h ago•87 comments

Reversing memory loss via gut-brain communication

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/03/gut-brain-cognitive-decline.html
241•mustaphah•9h ago•97 comments

ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-the-atm-didnt-kill-bank-teller
333•colinprince•11h ago•375 comments

Document poisoning in RAG systems: How attackers corrupt AI's sources

https://aminrj.com/posts/rag-document-poisoning/
73•aminerj•12h ago•27 comments

The Met releases high-def 3D scans of 140 famous art objects

https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/the-met-releases-high-definition-3d-scans-of-140-famous-art-o...
235•coloneltcb•10h ago•48 comments

Understanding the Go Runtime: The Scheduler

https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/go-runtime-scheduler/
33•valyala•3d ago•3 comments

Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition

https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/north-dakota/ai-error-jails-innocent-grandmother-for-months...
418•rectang•5h ago•214 comments

US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says

https://www.marketscreener.com/news/us-private-credit-defaults-hit-record-9-2-in-2025-fitch-says-...
268•JumpCrisscross•13h ago•355 comments

“Design me a highly resilient database”

https://nikogura.com/DatabaseDesign.html
40•donutshop•4d ago•24 comments

Launch HN: IonRouter (YC W26) – High-throughput, low-cost inference

https://ionrouter.io
50•vshah1016•7h ago•20 comments

Forcing Flash Attention onto a TPU and Learning the Hard Way

https://archerzhang.me/forcing-flash-attention-onto-a-tpu
48•azhng•4d ago•12 comments

Dolphin Progress Release 2603

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/03/12/dolphin-progress-report-release-2603/
309•BitPirate•17h ago•52 comments

WolfIP: Lightweight TCP/IP stack with no dynamic memory allocations

https://github.com/wolfssl/wolfip
98•789c789c789c•10h ago•13 comments

Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust

https://github.com/onecli/onecli
124•guyb3•9h ago•40 comments

Big data on the cheapest MacBook

https://duckdb.org/2026/03/11/big-data-on-the-cheapest-macbook
312•bcye•14h ago•256 comments

Are LLM merge rates not getting better?

https://entropicthoughts.com/no-swe-bench-improvement
121•4diii•14h ago•112 comments

Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework

https://github.com/jrswab/axe
152•jrswab•12h ago•98 comments

IMG_0416 (2024)

https://ben-mini.com/2024/img-0416
6•TigerUniversity•3d ago•1 comments

NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/spacecraft-changed-asteroid-orbit-nasa
109•pseudolus•4d ago•75 comments

DDR4 Sdram – Initialization, Training and Calibration

https://www.systemverilog.io/design/ddr4-initialization-and-calibration/
79•todsacerdoti•2d ago•16 comments

Long overlooked as crucial to life, fungi start to get their due

https://e360.yale.edu/features/fungi-kingdom
95•speckx•13h ago•32 comments

Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Platform Engineer (NYC, Onsite)

https://www.runconverge.com/careers/founding-platform-engineer
1•thomashlvt•9h ago

The Cost of Indirection in Rust

https://blog.sebastiansastre.co/posts/cost-of-indirection-in-rust/
88•sebastianconcpt•3d ago•38 comments

Language birth

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/13/language-birth
18•mitchbob•2d ago•3 comments

Returning to Rails in 2026

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/03/05/returning-to-rails-in-2026/
342•stanislavb•20h ago•210 comments

Full Spectrum and Infrared Photography

https://timstr.website/blog/fullspectrumphotography.html
50•alter_igel•4d ago•25 comments

An old photo of a large BBS (2022)

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/01/26/swcbbs/
167•xbryanx•6h ago•121 comments

The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved

https://owl.billpg.com/ipv4x/
59•billpg•10h ago•126 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
92•danso•2h ago

Comments

orionblastar•1h 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•1h 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•1h ago
That's why AI should not be used for identification alone, it's unreliable.
garciasn•1h ago
Correct; NIST recommended (~10 years ago) they be used together: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1721355115
lewdev•37m 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•41m 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•59m ago
Yes -- I know at least 3 Orion Blasters.
hamburglar•47m ago
I wonder if any other men have your face and your name.
afavour•1h 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•1h 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•53m 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_•58m 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•43m 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•1h ago
US legal system still as world leading as ever I see.

For all the wrong reasons.

Recommended compensation: $1500 per hour.

JumpCrisscross•1h ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356968
dylan604•1h ago
Fargo Police Department. That tracks. Are we sure the Cohens were not involved?
angry_octet•51m 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•1h 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•40m 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.
comrade1234•31m ago
I'm finally glad for my large nose.
gnabgib•27m ago
Don't think that's the take away