Home/Blog/500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positiveBackend500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positiveHacker News2026-09-29 19:350 viewsArticle URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/trial-live-facial-recognition-cameras-london-stations-false-positive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891480 Points: 10 # Comments: 0Source:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/trial-live-facial-recognition-cameras-london-stations-false-positiveMy favoritesPreviousI Found National Coffee Day Deals Worth Making Coffee at Home For (2026)NextYou Are No Longer Invited to DinnerRelated postsAbandoned by Nvidia and AMD, blamed by Sam Altman, and agreeing with Elon Musk: it sucks to be a PC gamer in 2026 — but here's why I’m not giving up hope just yetI’ve been a PC gamer since the early 1990s, and over the past three and a bit decades I’ve never once regretted my alleg0TechRadarThe Verdict Compiler: Pre-Registering a 90-Minute SpikeA payments team finishes a ninety-minute spike, the assistant turns three failing tests green on the projector, and the 0dev.toReviewing an Agent PR That Adds Request Coalescing: The Colliding Cache Key, the Test That Lied, and the Meter That Double-ChargedA pull request landed at 09:40 with a confident summary. It claimed to add single-flight deduplication of model calls. I0dev.toPortability Before Spill: A Two-Path Conformance Harness for Local-First AgentsA small team ships an agent that reads incident notes and emits a structured triage record. On a workstation the pipelin0dev.toSocial media uploads without an API: an uploader that drives the browserEvery platform wants its own API app for automated uploads: a developer account, a review, scopes, tokens — and on TikTo0dev.toBenchmark Budgets Are Part of the Grader: A Paired Cost and Latency Gate for AI C++ PatchesConsider a pull request that turns a 12-line C++ change into a 40-line patch. Every golden case passes. CI is green. Two0dev.to