Hackernews posts about Post Office

Post Office is a government-run postal service provider in the United Kingdom that was embroiled in a scandal involving the wrongful conviction and persecution of its own employees due to faulty computer software.

1. Horizon victim sues Post Office and Fujitsu for £4M (www.bbc.com)
   3 points by chrisjj 13 days ago | discuss
2. Post Office and telecommunications museum: online collection (German language) (onlinesammlung.museumsstiftung.de)
   3 points by slow_typist 24 days ago | discuss
3. UK Post Office names public inquiry as risk to £410M Horizon replacement (www.theregister.com)
   1 points by rntn 28 days ago | discuss
4. Private Credit: The Chief Power Officer of the AI Boom (substack.com)
   3 points by DavidAQ22 18 days ago | discuss
5. Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection (www.realitydefender.com)
   88 points by bpcrd 1 day ago | 62 comments
6. Show HN: Principles of Building AI Agents book [pdf] (github.com)
   5 points by calcsam 13 days ago | discuss
7. Show HN: I built a (legit) AI mortgage document analyzer that saves you money (oxford.loan-estimate-analysis.morfi.com)
   3 points by matthew-morfi 11 days ago | discuss
8. Show HN: Accidentally built churn detection AI (I don't code) (github.com)
   2 points by willster787 5 days ago | 2 comments
9. Show HN: AWS CodePipeline events via MQTT – with Tailscale support (www.npmjs.com)
   2 points by nkorai 13 days ago | discuss
10. Show HN: I put a GUI on the Gemini CLI and I'm not going back (github.com)
    2 points by waili 11 days ago | discuss
11. Can an LLM recognize the same user across different devices/accounts?
    1 points by WitcHeart_Ruby 10 days ago | 8 comments
12. Why Boring Businesses Outlast AI Hype Cycles
    4 points by Taikhoom10 10 days ago | 3 comments
13. Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust (github.com)
    548 points by braden-w 1 day ago | 139 comments
14. Mozilla Firefox Is Dying
    17 points by leonixyz 1 day ago | 23 comments
15. Ask HN: Does Microsoft gain anything from the constant annoying rebranding?
    10 points by lr0 3 days ago | 8 comments
16. Show HN: OpenAVMKit – open-source toolkit for real estate mass appraisal (AVMs) (www.openavmkit.com)
    4 points by larsiusprime 4 days ago | discuss
17. Ask HN: Long computer routine after work. Am I overdoing it?
    1 points by levysoft 14 days ago | 1 comments
18. Tell HN: Using Claude Code with official 3rd party APIs seems broken
    1 points by prmph 8 days ago | discuss
19. Show HN: I love ChatGPT Memory, so I built one (github.com)
    4 points by gusye 4 days ago | discuss
20. Tell HN: Sell your startup shares while you can
    2 points by thesellre 6 days ago | 2 comments
21. Show HN: Knowthemat.com a free site I vibe-coded to help you learn BJJ rules (knowthemat.com)
    2 points by vcarrico 12 days ago | discuss
22. Show HN: PinpoinTodays – Daily Answers and History for LinkedIn's Pinpoint Game (pinpointodays.com)
    2 points by qinggeng 14 days ago | discuss
23. At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says (www.nytimes.com)
    675 points by xbryanx about 1 month ago | 557 comments
24. Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower (www.bbc.co.uk)
    525 points by johndunne over 1 year ago | 298 comments
25. How a software glitch at the UK Post Office ruined lives (www.cnn.com)
    385 points by IronWolve over 1 year ago | 331 comments
26. A TV Show Forced Britain's Devastating Post Office Scandal into the Light (www.nytimes.com)
    200 points by infotainment over 1 year ago | 168 comments
27. Post Office lawyers held secret meeting with judge to stop disclosure (www.lawgazette.co.uk)
    188 points by chrisjj about 1 year ago | 158 comments
28. Post Office plan to sack Horizon IT reviewer kept secret, documents reveal (www.bbc.co.uk)
    187 points by physicsguy over 1 year ago | 90 comments
29. British Post Office Scandal (en.wikipedia.org)
    169 points by dragonbonheur over 1 year ago | 149 comments
30. Ex Post Office CEO hands back award after IT failures lead to false convictions (www.bbc.com)
    146 points by alibarber over 1 year ago | 127 comments
31. Secret papers reveal Post Office knew its court defence was false (www.bbc.co.uk)
    106 points by chrisjj over 1 year ago | 14 comments
32. Post Office scandal victims in Scotland have convictions quashed (www.computerweekly.com)
    104 points by taubek about 1 year ago | 29 comments
33. French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp (www.theguardian.com)
    100 points by bookofjoe over 1 year ago | 23 comments
34. UK Post Office: 700 Horizon software scandal victims to receive £600k each (www.theguardian.com)
    89 points by martynr almost 2 years ago | 40 comments
35. Fixing Horizon bugs would have been too costly, Post Office inquiry told (www.theguardian.com)
    83 points by thunderbong over 1 year ago | 62 comments
36. The tech that the US Post Office gave us (www.theverge.com)
    75 points by 01-_- about 1 month ago | 21 comments
37. Post Office Horizon scandal explained: Everything you need to know (www.computerweekly.com)
    69 points by chrisjj about 1 year ago | 46 comments
38. US Post Office phishing sites get as much traffic as the real one (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
    66 points by gennarro over 1 year ago | 20 comments
39. Skopje’s eccentric post office (2021) (www.new-east-archive.org)
    60 points by throne-of-lies 6 months ago | 22 comments
40. Post Office scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides, inquiry finds (www.theguardian.com)
    53 points by chrisjj about 1 month ago | 13 comments
41. Fujitsu will not bid for UK.gov business until Post Office inquiry closes (www.theregister.com)
    48 points by belter over 1 year ago | 37 comments
42. Post office doxes all postmasters targeted in horizon scandal (www.bbc.co.uk)
    47 points by madaxe_again about 1 year ago | 15 comments
43. Engineer insists Post Office software did a 'good job' (www.thetimes.com)
    46 points by pelagicAustral about 1 year ago | 50 comments
44. Fujitsu says it will pay compensation in UK Post Office scandal (www.japantimes.co.jp)
    43 points by anigbrowl over 1 year ago | 28 comments
45. What went wrong with Horizon: learning from the Post Office Trial (www.benthamsgaze.org)
    40 points by DyslexicAtheist over 1 year ago | 19 comments
46. Post Office tried to 'hush up' case of worker who killed himself, inquiry hears (www.theguardian.com)
    39 points by chrisjj over 1 year ago | 1 comments
47. Post Office betrays postmasters yet again: 'horrific' potential data breach (www.dailymail.co.uk)
    36 points by chrisjj about 1 year ago | 10 comments
48. Ex-Fujitsu engineer admits changing court testimony at request of Post Office (www.theguardian.com)
    36 points by chrisjj about 1 year ago | 7 comments
49. UK Post Office paid out bonuses for every conviction under Horizon scandal (www.telegraph.co.uk)
    36 points by concerto over 1 year ago | 1 comments
50. A rural post office was told to prioritize Amazon packages. Chaos ensued (www.washingtonpost.com)
    33 points by helsinkiandrew over 1 year ago | 52 comments
51. UK Post Office burns 31M pounds on failed cloud migration (www.thestack.technology)
    31 points by galenmarchetti over 1 year ago | 5 comments
52. More faulty UK Post Office IT wrecks lives (news.sky.com)
    29 points by nonrandomstring over 1 year ago | 9 comments