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What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
1•okaywriting•2m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
1•todsacerdoti•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•5m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•6m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•8m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•8m ago•0 comments

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
3•pseudolus•8m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•13m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
1•bkls•13m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•14m ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
3•roknovosel•14m ago•0 comments

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•22m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•23m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•25m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•25m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
1•surprisetalk•25m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
3•pseudolus•26m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•26m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•27m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•27m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
3•obscurette•28m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
2•jackhalford•29m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
2•tangjiehao•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•33m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
2•tusharnaik•35m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•35m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Tesla's Optimus and the Humanoid Robot Race Nobody's Ready For

https://investorplace.com/hypergrowthinvesting/2025/06/teslas-optimus-and-the-humanoid-robot-race-nobodys-ready-for/
4•Bluestein•7mo ago

Comments

cranberryturkey•7mo ago
I will pay for a robot to assemble Ikea furniture.
Someone•7mo ago
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insert_Knob_A_in_Hole_B:

“Plot summary

Two men on a remote space station receive all of their equipment from Earth unassembled, and must assemble it with only vague and confusing instructions ("composed by an idiot", one says); as a result, it often fails to work properly or at all. They eagerly await the arrival of a sophisticated positronic robot that will repair existing equipment and assemble new ones.

Upon its arrival, they discover that the robot has been shipped in 500 pieces with vague, confusing assembly instructions.”

cranberryturkey•7mo ago
haha. yeh that's how it would work too. lol
Zigurd•7mo ago
Is there even one use case where a humanoid robot has proven to be the best solution? To illustrate the point I would bet money that a laundry folding machine that only folds laundry better, faster, and cheaper will be the best solution for that use case. Lawn mowing? Another robot. Floor cleaning? Done and dusted. If there is a task with enough value to automate, a specialized robot will win that market.
hollerith•7mo ago
The advantage of the humanoid robot is compatibility with a built environment tailored for humans.
Zigurd•7mo ago
Like sitting in the driver's seat of a non-automated car and being a chauffeur? There are one and a half billion non-automated vehicles out there. An obviously gigantic market. And yet I'm pretty sure everyone can see that a humanoid robot driving a car is a ridiculous use case.
jfengel•7mo ago
The case I have in mind: cleaning hotel rooms. Build me a robot that can clean the toilet, change the sheets, replace the soap, check the mini-fridge, and do it all without breaking people's stuff scattered around the room.

This is minimum-wage work which probably costs you $30,000 a year (including taxes, benefits, etc.) A $100,000 robot would replace that cost in just over three years -- one year, if it could work 24 hours a day instead of 8.

That seems a huge ask. The tasks are all simple, but currently require AI-complete levels of perception, especially if combined into one machine. I doubt that a specialized robot -- or a series of them -- is likely to be cost-effective. Currently, they don't even use roombas.

einrealist•7mo ago
Found a TSLA shareholder.