Hacker News with Generative AI: Identity

With REAL ID, America now has national ID cards and internal passports (reason.com)
I don't have a REAL ID–compliant driver's license and don't plan to get one. I figure if the federal government wants to implement internal passports in the U.S., which after 20 years of political and legal battles is now happening, we might as well be honest about it and use actual passports.

Politics, Government, Security, Identity

16 points by cempaka 38 days ago | 2 comments

I was on a flight – but British Airways told me I wasn't (bbc.com)
An extraordinary thing happened to me on a recent flight to Madrid: I unwittingly travelled under the wrong identity, becoming a potential security issue, and no one realised.

Airlines, Travel, Security, Identity

14 points by ranit 45 days ago | 1 comments

Planetary Realism (planetary.day)
Isn’t the answer obvious? You might say “Earth” and confidently know what that means. You, after all, have a stake, a claim, in calling Earth your home. It’s your planet too. You, who knows the seasons, the cycles of night and day, the tides. You couldn’t be on any other planet—at this point in time anyways—and so in this sense we can say you find yourself on planet Earth aka Home.

Philosophy, Earth, Home, Identity

8 points by johanam 59 days ago | 0 comments

Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos' (devonlive.com)

Local News, Identity, Internet Culture

194 points by summoned 86 days ago | 72 comments

The Dingo's Fate (noemamag.com)
The dingo forces us to question the coherence of ‘nativeness’ as a meaningful concept.

Australia, Ecology, Philosophy, Identity

40 points by Thevet 93 days ago | 10 comments

Show HN: Appear as anyone in video calls like zoom or Google meets (phazr.ai)
With a single reference photo, you can become your favorite anime character, meme, celebrity, or even your own unique creation.

Video Calls, Artificial Intelligence, Entertainment, Identity

110 points by michaelphi 93 days ago | 51 comments

The Software Engineering Identity Crisis (annievella.com)
Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code.

Software Engineering, Identity, Career, Personal Development

143 points by napolux 99 days ago | 159 comments

A man's quest to show the Social Security Administration he's alive and kicking (cnn.com)

Social Security, Bureaucracy, Government, Identity

9 points by zfg 101 days ago | 1 comments

‘The Celts: A Modern History’ by Ian Stewart Review (historytoday.com)
Around the 1990s, the historical Celts endured something of an identity crisis. First in academic articles, then in popular books, and eventually in newspaper headlines, people started loudly declaring that ‘Celts’ did not really exist.

History, Identity, Academia, Books, News

107 points by lermontov 102 days ago | 43 comments

Is nearly a quarter of Gen Z queer – or is something else going on? (thehill.com)
According to a new Gallup report, nearly one in four Gen Z Americans identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer. That’s more than just a statistic — it’s a statement, and a troubling one, for reasons that will become clearer.

Gen Z, LGBTQ+, Social Trends, Statistics, Identity

9 points by koolba 122 days ago | 3 comments

Product shouldn't require showing my legal name (ntietz.com)
Last week, I finally got verified on LinkedIn. Now there's a little badge next to my name that says "yes, she's a human who is legally named Nicole." Their marketing for verification says that I should now expect 60% more profile views and 50% more comments and reactions.

Privacy, Social Media, Identity, LinkedIn

9 points by zdw 126 days ago | 0 comments

When your last name is Null, nothing works (wsj.com)
Nontra Yantaprasert couldn’t wait to take her husband’s shorter and easier-to-pronounce last name. She didn’t know what kinds of problems it would cause.

Names, Technology, Identity, Bureaucracy

272 points by impish9208 130 days ago | 295 comments

Can you lose your native tongue? (2024) (nytimes.com)
It happened the first time over dinner. I was saying something to my husband, who grew up in Paris where we live, and suddenly couldn’t get the word out.

Language, Culture, Linguistics, Identity

111 points by Thevet 132 days ago | 197 comments

'Reading is part of my identity': the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon (theguardian.com)

Reading, Amazon, Books, Identity, Social Media

24 points by rorylawless 134 days ago | 2 comments

Worthwhile Lives for Sensitive Young Men (librarianofcelaeno.substack.com)
I was very grateful for the opportunity to speak with Johann Kurtz and Dave Greene the other day and for the chance to hear their views expounded more directly, as well as to elaborate on my own. Johann Kurtz has offered an afterword and I thought I might do so as well.

Philosophy, Identity, Masculinity, Substack

13 points by janandonly 139 days ago | 4 comments

ATProto and the ownership of identity (anirudh.fi)
atproto is very exciting to me as it’s the perfect abstraction between the identity and user data layer, and the application layer. Compare that to the fediverse and some striking differences become apparent.

Identity, Decentralization, Social Media, Web3, Technology

109 points by icy 163 days ago | 131 comments

Dungeons and Dragons rolls the dice with new rules about identity (nytimes.com)
The role-playing game replaced “race” with “species” and divorced several character traits from biological identity. Some longtime players are upset (as is Elon Musk).

Gaming, Identity, Culture

66 points by jordanpg 182 days ago | 182 comments

The Germany We Knew Is Gone (nytimes.com)
When I recently picked up a rental car in Las Vegas — I was in America to cover the elections — the agent at the counter insisted on “upgrading” me to a BMW. “So you feel at home,” he said, looking at my German driver’s license, smiling. I took the keys and made a mental note: Outside Germany, Germany is still intact.

Germany, Culture, Travel, Identity

16 points by omnibrain 191 days ago | 5 comments

Bluesky is cracking down on parody accounts and impersonators (mashable.com)
Bluesky Social is having a moment, but that new influx of users is creating an impersonation problem. Thus, the decentralized platform is rolling out a "more aggressive" policy on parody accounts that aren’t clearly labeled.

Social Media, Censorship, Identity

11 points by thunderbong 211 days ago | 0 comments

You are not your job (flawed.net.nz)
It’s not a family

Identity, Work-Life Balance, Philosophy

28 points by wepple 230 days ago | 6 comments

Worldcoin has a new Orb and is now just World (theverge.com)
Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency / human identity network / UBI project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is now known as World.

Cryptocurrency, Identity, OpenAI, UBI

36 points by thunderbong 255 days ago | 92 comments

Shibboleth (wikipedia.org)
A shibboleth (/ˈʃɪbəlɛθ, -ɪθ/ ⓘ;[1][2] Biblical Hebrew: שִׁבֹּלֶת, romanized: šībbōleṯ) is any custom or tradition, usually a choice of phrasing or single word, that distinguishes one group of people from another.[3][2][4] Shibboleths have been used throughout history in many societies as passwords, ways of self-identification, signals of loyalty and affinity, ways of maintaining traditional segregation, or protection from real or perceived threats.

Language, Culture, History, Linguistics, Identity

6 points by redbell 261 days ago | 4 comments

Bitcoin creator is Peter Todd, HBO film says (politico.eu)
LONDON — A new HBO documentary identifies Canadian developer Peter Todd as Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous founder of cryptocurrency bitcoin.

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Documentary, HBO, Identity

18 points by tzury 265 days ago | 28 comments

Life without Aadhaar (deccanherald.com)

India, Identity, Government, Technology, Privacy

94 points by walterbell 282 days ago | 89 comments

The work you do, the person you are (2017) (newyorker.com)

Identity, Self-Reflection, Personal Growth, Articles

113 points by mitchbob 301 days ago | 52 comments

Dungeons, Dragons and shoulder pads: Why I loved D&D as a closeted teen (npr.org)

Nostalgia, LGBTQ+, Teenagers, Identity

14 points by sabrina_ramonov 308 days ago | 0 comments

6-year-old denied passport because she's named after 'Game of Thrones' character (nypost.com)