Face Recognition Reviews

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1. Sam Mitchell

   · Owner at KittenProperties · over 2 years ago
   Mixed feelings

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Face Recognition mentions (14)

• Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses

  Did you look at egoblur? Its a lot more effective at face detection than https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition granted, you'd have to do your own face matching to do exception. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• They See Your Photos

  Syncthing, python face_recognition [1], a static gallery (sigal [2]), and a few lines of bash and its fully automatic. I can even share links with family. [1] https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Security Image Recognition

  Camera connected to a PI? Something like this could run locally: https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition. Source: over 2 years ago

• Every thing you need to know about Machine Learning Pipeline

  One of the most common challenges is the black-box problem, when the pipeline becomes too complex to understand it would happen. This can make it difficult to identify issues with the system or to understand why it isn't working as we expected or make accurate predictions that saiwa company find out the solution for Face Recognition. Another challenge is the time required for organizations to deploy a machine... Source: about 3 years ago

• Reverse image search / facial recognition

  Second link is an easy to implement python library is you want to build it yourself Https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition. Source: about 3 years ago

Bright Data mentions (45)

• Precursor

  Happy to offer a counter of some great products for anti-bot defeat: https://brightdata.com/ https://www.zenrows.com/ https://www.capsolver.com/ https://scrapfly.io/ hundreds of millions of residential ips, human browser fingerprints, custom browser binaries, auto solve of turnstyle, recaptcha v3, kasada, datadome, AWS WAF, etc if they come up. - Source: Hacker News / 28 days ago

• Best Web Scraping Tools in 2026: A Hands-On Comparison of the Top 10

  The best web scraping tools 2026 leaderboard hasn't changed; the gap has narrowed. Bright Data remains the safest bet for any team that wants to spend time on the data, not on the scraping. The 660-scraper library, 400M-IP network, pay-per-success pricing and unlimited concurrency are still uncontested at the high end. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• The Economics of Web Scraping: How Consultancies Price Data Extraction and Manage Scope Creep

  Infrastructure Pass-Through (OpEx) Data extraction at scale is infrastructure-heavy. Bypassing modern Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) requires high-quality residential proxies, CAPTCHA solvers, and substantial browser-automation compute resources. Services like Bright Data charge significantly by the gigabyte for premium residential IPs. These variable infrastructure costs must be passed directly to the client,... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• LinkedIn Scraping Is Dead: 5 Legal, ToS-Safe Alternatives That Actually Work in 2026

  Bright Data has successfully defended web scraping in U.S. Courts and offers LinkedIn datasets pre-collected and ready to download. LinkedIn profile data on their dataset marketplace runs around $250 per 100,000 records. The freshness caveat is real: bulk datasets are snapshots, not real-time. If you need current job titles on a rolling basis, you're better with an enrichment API than a one-time dataset pull.... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Building a Live AI Market Research Terminal: How Bright Data and Convex Replace Polling With Real-Time Everything

  Bright Data built an open-source demo that solves this. It's called the Signal Terminal, a financial research tool built around that problem. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago