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Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon,showing rapid advances

https://www.reuters.com/sports/humanoid-robots-race-past-humans-beijing-half-marathon-showing-rapid-advances-2026-04-19/

2•teleforce•1h ago

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gnabgib•1h ago

Note they didn't race past humans in the marathon.. the robots ran on a different track often being chased by their remote-controlling human handlers. The fastest had a faster time than humans have achieved, though.

3 days ago:

APNews (15 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822492

SkyNews (3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823373

DW (2 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823665

AlJazeera https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824227

BBC (2 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824635

LBC (5 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824880

CNN (11 points, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826107

NHK (4 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827403

You Can't Game Your Way to a Real Education

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/opinion/schools-edtech-laptops-games-learning.html

1•paulpauper•2m ago•0 comments

My family tried to eat fewer ultra-processed foods

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2026/apr/20/ultra-processed-foods-diet-healthy-eating

1•paulpauper•2m ago•0 comments

Trade-school graduates often enter the workforce with significant debt

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/they-chose-careers-in-the-trades-and-still-wound-up-with-de...

1•paulpauper•3m ago•0 comments

xAI is buying cursor for $60B and the real play isnt code editors

https://webmatrices.com/post/xai-is-buying-cursor-for-60-billion-and-the-real-play-isnt-code-editors

1•bishwasbh•5m ago•0 comments

Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus/

1•dalvrosa•5m ago•0 comments

OpClave- council of LLMs to get one synthesized answer

https://www.opclave.com

1•Aarush_b•7m ago•1 comments

Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game

https://tempest.homemade.systems

2•mwenge•13m ago•0 comments

Small regulatory RNAs show changes in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-026-03808-x

2•PaulHoule•13m ago•0 comments

How many alarms do you usually set in the morning?

1•purplenight•14m ago•0 comments

Hermes Agent – A self-improving AI agent

https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com

1•rob•15m ago•0 comments

AI Tokens Optimization

https://tokenpinch.com

1•javiercast•16m ago•1 comments

Stalwart v0.16: A New Foundation

https://stalw.art/blog/stalwart-0-16/

1•birdculture•17m ago•0 comments

A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast

https://grist.org/health/vibrio-bacteria-florida-shellfish/

3•Brajeshwar•24m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Feedback request on new external network attack surface discovery tool

https://turbopentest.com/cloud-easm

1•integsec•25m ago•1 comments

Aegis Solis Archive: Hash manifest for cross-platform verification

https://archive.org/details/aegis-solis-archive-master-hash-manifest-v-13-final

1•aegissolis•26m ago•0 comments

How to turn off Google AI overview

https://substack.com/@grefiti/p-192810091

1•olafnub•26m ago•0 comments

The D.C. devotees of a niche arcade game (Killer Queen)

https://51st.news/where-to-play-killer-queen-arcade-game-washington-dc-midlands/

1•gnabgib•26m ago•0 comments

China backs orbital data center startup with $8.4B in credit lines

https://spacenews.com/china-backs-orbital-data-center-startup-with-8-4-billion-in-credit-lines/

2•ivewonyoung•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kumbukum, open source memory infrastructure for teams

https://kumbukum.com/

1•nitai•29m ago•0 comments

Taktile's Agentic Decision Platform

https://taktile.com/

1•doener•30m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise

https://openai.com/index/axios-developer-tool-compromise/

2•shpat•30m ago•0 comments

CubeSandbox: Tencent's sandbox for ai agents

https://github.com/tencentcloud/CubeSandbox

1•ElasticBottle•33m ago•0 comments

A Open Source Repo to Track Elected Officials Investments

https://github.com/prixe-api/politicians

1•mc587•36m ago•0 comments

Fraud and the false optimism of AI for science

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/04/22/fraud-and-the-false-optimism-of-ai-for-science/

1•ivansavz•37m ago•0 comments

Hershey's Electric Railway in Cuba

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hershey-electric-railway-cuba

3•Brajeshwar•38m ago•0 comments

Zero Has Meaning

https://medallurgy.substack.com/p/zero-has-meaning

3•Origamidan•40m ago•0 comments

Kalshi suspends 3 congressional candidates for wagering on their own elections

https://apnews.com/article/prediction-markets-kalshi-congress-candidates-elections-betting-37766e...

5•geox•42m ago•0 comments

Clippy Is Back, Your Desktop AI Paperclip Agent over GUI

https://github.com/AmrDab/clippyai-desktop

1•AmDab•42m ago•0 comments

IRGC-linked media hints at threat to Persian Gulf undersea internet cables

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604225913

2•tokyobreakfast•46m ago•0 comments

An MCP Server for Fastmail – National Email Day

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/an-mcp-server-for-fastmail/

3•nmjenkins•46m ago•0 comments