frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Code only says what it does

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html
1•logicprog•4m ago•0 comments

The success of 'natural language programming'

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12/16/natural-language.html
1•logicprog•4m ago•0 comments

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-scriptovision-super-micro-script.html
2•todsacerdoti•5m ago•0 comments

Discovering the "original" iPhone from 1995 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cip9w-UxIc
1•fortran77•6m ago•0 comments

Psychometric Comparability of LLM-Based Digital Twins

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14264
1•PaulHoule•7m ago•0 comments

SidePop – track revenue, costs, and overall business health in one place

https://www.sidepop.io
1•ecaglar•10m ago•1 comments

The Other Markov's Inequality

https://www.ethanepperly.com/index.php/2026/01/16/the-other-markovs-inequality/
1•tzury•11m ago•0 comments

The Cascading Effects of Repackaged APIs [pdf]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6055034
1•Tejas_dmg•13m ago•0 comments

Lightweight and extensible compatibility layer between dataframe libraries

https://narwhals-dev.github.io/narwhals/
1•kermatt•16m ago•0 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
2•RebelPotato•20m ago•0 comments

Dorsey's Block cutting up to 10% of staff

https://www.reuters.com/business/dorseys-block-cutting-up-10-staff-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-02...
1•dev_tty01•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Freenet Lives – Real-Time Decentralized Apps at Scale [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SxNBz1VTE0
1•sanity•24m ago•1 comments

In the AI age, 'slow and steady' doesn't win

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/30/2026/in-the-ai-age-slow-and-steady-is-on-the-outs
1•mooreds•31m ago•1 comments

Administration won't let student deported to Honduras return

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-wont-let-student-deported-honduras-return-2...
1•petethomas•31m ago•0 comments

How were the NIST ECDSA curve parameters generated? (2023)

https://saweis.net/posts/nist-curve-seed-origins.html
2•mooreds•32m ago•0 comments

AI, networks and Mechanical Turks (2025)

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2025/11/23/ai-networks-and-mechanical-turks
1•mooreds•32m ago•0 comments

Goto Considered Awesome [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UKVEUGEk6Y
1•linkdd•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Built a Free AI LinkedIn Carousel Generator

https://carousel-ai.intellisell.ai/
1•troyethaniel•36m ago•0 comments

Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles

https://www.kyledunbar.dev/2026/02/05/Implementing-auto-tiling-with-just-5-tiles.html
1•todsacerdoti•37m ago•0 comments

Open Challange (Get all Universities involved

https://x.com/i/grok/share/3513b9001b8445e49e4795c93bcb1855
1•rwilliamspbgops•38m ago•0 comments

Apple Tried to Tamper Proof AirTag 2 Speakers – I Broke It [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLK6ixQpQsQ
2•gnabgib•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Isolating AI-generated code from human code | Vibe as a Code

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@gace/vaac
1•bstrama•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: More beautiful and usable Hacker News

https://twitter.com/shivamhwp/status/2020125417995436090
3•shivamhwp•42m ago•0 comments

Toledo Derailment Rescue [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPHh5yHxkfU
1•samsolomon•44m ago•0 comments

War Department Cuts Ties with Harvard University

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4399812/war-department-cuts-ties-with-harva...
9•geox•48m ago•1 comments

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
2•yi_wang•48m ago•0 comments

A Bid-Based NFT Advertising Grid

https://bidsabillion.com/
1•chainbuilder•52m ago•1 comments

AI readability score for your documentation

https://docsalot.dev/tools/docsagent-score
1•fazkan•59m ago•0 comments

NASA Study: Non-Biologic Processes Don't Explain Mars Organics

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/02/06/nasa-study-non-biologic-processes-dont-ful...
3•bediger4000•1h ago•2 comments

I inhaled traffic fumes to find out where air pollution goes in my body

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74w48d8epgo
2•dabinat•1h 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.