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‘100 Video Calls Per Day’: Models Are Applying to Be the Face of AI Scams

Dozens of Telegram channels reviewed by WIRED include job listings for “AI face models.” The (mostly) women who land these gigs are likely being used to dupe victims out of their money.

Wired • Mar 16, 2026 • Matt Burgess
Technology Mar 16, 2026

I may 'hire' AI instead of a graduate student

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/why-i-may-hire-ai-instead-graduate-student Comments URL: https://n...

Technology Mar 16, 2026

Starlink Mini as a Failover

Article URL: https://www.jackpearce.co.uk/posts/starlink-failover/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Mar 16, 2026

A curated list of AI slops

Article URL: https://github.com/yikerman/awesome-ai-slop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396122 Po...

Technology Mar 16, 2026

These 15 Amazon Spring Sale Tech Deals Are Actually Good. WWe Checked the Price History (2026)

This sale spans almost an entire week, and it’s full of fake “deals.” We hunted to find truly good prices on gear ...

Technology Mar 16, 2026

The billionaires made a promise — now some want out

In 2010, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched a disarmingly simple campaign they called the Giving Pledge: a public co...

Technology Mar 16, 2026

ASCII and Unicode quotation marks (2007)

Article URL: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4739514...

Technology Mar 16, 2026

Netflix’s ‘Frankenstein’ wins three Oscars, ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ wins two

“Frankenstein” won for Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, while “KPop D...

Technology Mar 16, 2026

AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals

With powerful AI coding assistants, I sometimes feel less motivated to study deep computer science topics like distribu...

Technology Mar 16, 2026

Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation

Article URL: https://righttoprivacyact.github.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394264 Points: 9 ...

Technology Mar 16, 2026

"How I write software with LLMs"

Article URL: https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-i-write-software-with-llms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology Mar 16, 2026

Quillx is an open standard for disclosing AI involvement in software projects

Article URL: https://github.com/QAInsights/AIx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394004 Points: 4 # ...

Technology Mar 16, 2026

I built an ephemeral P2P chat with WebRTC, without servers

Article URL: https://ephemchat.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393941 Points: 4 # Comm...

Technology Mar 16, 2026

What Is Agentic Engineering?

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/what-is-agentic-engineering/ Comments URL: h...

Technology Mar 16, 2026

An experiment to use GitHub Actions as a control plane for a PaaS

Article URL: https://towlion.github.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393805 Points: 4 # Comments...

Technology Mar 16, 2026

White House administration set to be paid $10B for brokering TikTok deal

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/14/tiktok-trump-administration-10bn Comments URL: https://...

Technology Mar 16, 2026

Google, Accel India accelerator choses 5 startups and none are ‘AI wrappers’

Google and Accel say about 70% of AI startup pitches tied to India were "wrappers" as they reviewed more than 4,000 appl...

Technology Mar 16, 2026

Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells

Article URL: https://www.salk.edu/news-release/cannabinoids-remove-plaque-forming-alzheimers-proteins-from-brain-cells/...

Technology Mar 15, 2026

The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text

Article URL: https://man7.org/tlpi/academic/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393388 Poin...

Technology Mar 15, 2026

Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year

Article URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/microsoft-365-apps/excel/wrongly-assumes-1900-is-leap-year ...

Technology Mar 15, 2026

Show HN: Open-source playground to red-team AI agents with exploits published

We build runtime security for AI agents. The playground started as an internal tool that we used to test our own guardr...

Technology Mar 15, 2026

Nasdaq's Shame

Article URL: https://keubiko.substack.com/p/nasdaqs-shame Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392550 P...

Technology Mar 15, 2026

A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-new-bigfoot-documentary-helps-explain-our-conspiracy-minded-era/ar-AA1...

Technology Mar 15, 2026

Kangina

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangina Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392514 Points: ...

Technology Mar 15, 2026

Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today

Article URL: https://www.grepular.com/Cert_Authorities_Check_for_DNSSEC_From_Today Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

Technology Mar 15, 2026

Show HN: Free OpenAI API Access with ChatGPT Account

Article URL: https://github.com/EvanZhouDev/openai-oauth Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392158 Po...

Technology Mar 15, 2026

Canada's Bill C-22 Mandates Mass Metadata Surveillance of Canadians

Article URL: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-22/first-reading Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Mar 15, 2026

I'm Too Lazy to Check Datadog Every Morning, So I Made AI Do It

Article URL: https://quickchat.ai/post/automate-bug-triage-with-claude-code-and-datadog Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology Mar 15, 2026

Show HN: Lux – Drop-in Redis replacement in Rust. 5.6x faster, ~1MB Docker image

Article URL: https://github.com/lux-db/lux Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47391982 Points: 23 # Com...

Technology Mar 15, 2026

ByteDance reportedly pauses global launch of its Seedance 2.0 video generator

The company is reportedly delaying the launch as its engineers and lawyers work to avert further legal issues.