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DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper

https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude
101•alattaran•1h ago•44 comments

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135
224•nullagent•6h ago•75 comments

The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions

https://jdgr.net/the-hidden-costs-of-great-abstractions
27•jdgr•56m ago•7 comments

Southwest Headquarters Tour

https://katherinemichel.github.io/blog/travel/southwest-headquarters-tour-2026.html
173•KatiMichel•7h ago•50 comments

US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-usindian-space-mission-extreme-subsidence.html
74•leopoldj•2d ago•38 comments

Introduction to Atom

https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/atom.html
17•susam•2h ago•4 comments

A desktop made for one

https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html
218•xngbuilds•8h ago•82 comments

OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-eme...
252•donsupreme•23h ago•207 comments

New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/attributed-to-banksy-a-new-statue-of-a-suited-man-blind...
241•dryadin•5h ago•244 comments

Tar files made in macOS generate "xattr" errors when expanded in Linux

https://aruljohn.com/blog/macos-created-tar-files-linux-errors/
14•heresie-dabord•3d ago•6 comments

Agentic Coding Is a Trap

https://larsfaye.com/articles/agentic-coding-is-a-trap
10•ayoisaiah•1h ago•3 comments

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/
580•teleforce•9h ago•334 comments

Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors

https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exploitation-by-covert-surveillance-actors/
86•miohtama•7h ago•7 comments

Text-to-CAD

https://github.com/earthtojake/text-to-cad
65•softservo•2d ago•23 comments

I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jNQDcpHc68
67•cyrc•6h ago•10 comments

Security through obscurity is not bad

https://mobeigi.com/blog/security/security-through-obscurity-is-not-bad/
111•mobeigi•9h ago•115 comments

Make your own microforest (2025)

https://ambrook.com/offrange/environment/a-forest-in-your-pocket
52•bookofjoe•4h ago•11 comments

Automatic Brightness in Plasma

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland,display/2026/04/24/automatic-brightness.html
14•speckx•2d ago•4 comments

Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025)

https://www.dailynk.com/english/lost-in-translation-the-linguistic-challenges-facing-n-korean-def...
29•spzb•2d ago•19 comments

Why TUIs Are Back

https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/why-tuis-are-back/
242•rickcarlino•5h ago•261 comments

LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction

https://www.lelanthran.com/chap15/content.html
25•lelanthran•6h ago•21 comments

Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/denuvo-has-been-bypassed-in-all-single-player-...
207•oceansky•5d ago•123 comments

I built my own hair electrolysis machine

https://www.scd31.com/posts/diy-hair-electrolysis-machine
164•y1n0•4d ago•44 comments

Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan

https://www.thegamer.com/mgs2-hd-edition-source-code-massive-leak/
216•rishabhd•7h ago•86 comments

What is Z-Angle Memory and why is Intel developing it?

https://www.hpcwire.com/2026/02/05/what-is-z-angle-memory-and-why-is-intel-developing-it/
80•rbanffy•2d ago•35 comments

How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

https://chromium-drift.pages.dev/
157•skaul•7h ago•56 comments

Alert-driven monitoring

https://simpleobservability.com/docs/alert-driven-monitoring
103•khazit•10h ago•39 comments

Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web

https://github.com/bring-shrubbery/ml-sharp-web
151•bring-shrubbery•14h ago•38 comments

Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015)

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/each-blade-a-single-crystal
51•whycome•10h ago•12 comments

Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/underwater-robot-tracks-sperm-whale-conversations-re...
29•thedebuglife•7h ago•5 comments
Open in hackernews

Colorado grandma keeps getting pulled over due to database error

https://guessingheadlights.com/colorado-grandma-keeps-getting-pulled-over-because-police-cameras-cannot-tell-the-difference-between-a-zero-and-the-letter-o/
41•chasil•4h ago

Comments

ticulatedspline•3h ago
source didn't read their own flippn article

Title

>Colorado Grandma Keeps Getting Pulled Over Because Police Cameras Cannot Tell the Difference Between a Zero and the Letter O

Article:

> The error exists in the database. The camera reads her plate correctly, matches it to the incorrect entry, and flags her as a suspect every single time.

crooked-v•1h ago
Flock delenda est, but why are any states even using both 0 and O in license plates in the first place?
kQq9oHeAz6wLLS•1h ago
That's what I was thinking. You can see in one photo on the article that the O is squared off, and the zero is rounded, but it still seems ripe for confusion.
mordechai9000•1h ago
I believe, in my state, similar looking characters are considered identical for vanity plates. I assumed this applied to state issued plate IDs as well, but maybe not. It's hard enough trying to read a license plate on the road without throwing in confusion over B vs 8 and O vs 0.
spuz•1h ago
Yeah this is a problem even without technology. I believe the UK does not use the letter O in standard registration numbers so it cannot be confused with 0.
turtleyacht•1h ago
It's pretty hard to correct "that person does not live here" at the government level. Systems downstream pull it down and trust it completely.

The bureaucratic suggestion was to submit a form with wrong values on purpose, so it would be flagged for manual workaround. Could not believe they would ask for someone to lie on a form.

jameskilton•1h ago
Flock is pure cruelty. All justice, no mercy. It needs to go away.
kkotak•58m ago
Yep. Imagine a young dark skinned man wearing a hoodie driving that car. Dramatically increase chances of an arrest or worse.
freediddy•1h ago
The story isn't Flock cameras, it's because the police entered the license plates incorrectly.
nabbed•57m ago
My US-based car has an "O"-like character in my license plate number, and honestly I could not figure out whether it was the letter O or a zero (even after searching the state's DMV site for information on how to distinguish one from the other). The character is very square, so maybe that means it's the letter O.

If the headline is more correct ("Because Police Cameras Cannot Tell the Difference Between a Zero and the Letter O") than the article content (which contradicts that claim), then I am alarmed. Otherwise, I am less alarmed.