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Why are there no quadruped 'wheelchairs'?

https://twitter.com/michaelc/status/2085617431335125003
1•mc_thinking•1h ago

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mc_thinking•1h ago
We are making such fast progress in robotics but we still struggle to build really useful tools for people who have disabilities.

Why is this? Is it because it’s really hard from a regulatory or liability perspective? Or, is it a market size thing? Curious if anyone has analyzed this or has experienced based opinions.

goodmythical•48m ago
A single search reveals that there are in fact multiple models that climb curbs and stairs.
treetalker•30m ago
I couldn’t help but think of Nute Gunray’s walking throne in The Phantom Menace.

Engineering Culture Trends 2026 – Food for Agile Thought #556

https://age-of-product.com/food-agile-thought-556-engineering-culture-trends-2026/
1•swolpers•19s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Infinite scrolling comes to Hazumi for Hacker News

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hazumi-for-hacker-news/id1670237209
1•jrhey•51s ago•0 comments

The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 3: The Sims

https://www.filfre.net/2026/08/the-life-and-times-of-maxis-part-3-the-sims/
1•doppp•2m ago•0 comments

Most explanations fail for the same reason

https://tryclicked.app/blog/most-explanations-fail
1•sagunbuilds•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP-debug-proxy – A visual reverse proxy for MCP and OAuth traffic

https://github.com/ytkoka/mcp-debug-proxy
1•ytkoka•3m ago•0 comments

Chinese Model Kimi K3 Breaks UK AI Safety Institute Benchmark Evaluations

https://blog.frontier.security/chinese-model-kimi-k3-breaks-uk-ai-safety-institute-benchmark-eval...
1•akyuu•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: AI4 Conference, Thoughts?

1•joshcsimmons•3m ago•0 comments

Who Supervises the Supervisor? A Riff on Machine Learning

https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/who-supervises-the-supervisor-a-riff-on-machine-learning
2•lschueller•3m ago•0 comments

Code review bottlenecks: How we hill climbed our way to higher PR throughput

https://www.assembled.com/blog/code-review-bottlenecks-how-we-hill-climbed-our-way-to-higher-pr-t...
5•johnjwang•4m ago•0 comments

University celebrates Baby's 65th birthday (2013)

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/university-celebrates-babys-65th-birthday/
1•Bluestein•5m ago•0 comments

The Suicide Crisis in Wyoming

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/suicide-wyoming-mental-health.html
1•mooreds•7m ago•0 comments

The secret nuclear material the US forgot how to make

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank
3•historical1234•7m ago•1 comments

AI agents fake identities, target real people in new security incident

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/tech/ai-anthropic-openai-security-breach-intl-hnk
3•mooreds•7m ago•0 comments

Parasol Lost

https://actuaries.org.uk/news-and-media-releases/news-articles/2026/jan/14-jan-26-parasol-lost-re...
1•simonebrunozzi•8m ago•0 comments

Slime Without Plugins Using Kitty

https://lee-phillips.org/kittyslime/
2•leephillips•9m ago•0 comments

Manchester Statistical Society was founded in 1833

https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/ap12481/manchester-statistical-society
1•Bluestein•10m ago•0 comments

Let Over Lambda is free online to read as pdf

https://letoverlambda.com/lol.pdf
1•artsi0m•10m ago•3 comments

Finland to stop maintaining poles carrying communication lines with Russia

https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/07/29/finland-to-stop-maintaining-poles-carrying-communication-lin...
2•Sami_Lehtinen•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Back end Engineer – Visual guides for system design and cloud infra

https://www.backendengineer.in
1•pvtsparsshh•11m ago•0 comments

Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been

https://www.wired.com/story/mamdani-assembles-his-nyc-tech-team/
3•gorbachev•12m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Why aren't there more Operating System startups?

1•senor_digimon•12m ago•1 comments

Publishing Schematics Before "Open Source" Was a Word

https://fabscene.medium.com/publishing-schematics-before-open-source-was-a-word-55-years-of-akizu...
1•extralongdivisi•13m ago•0 comments

The Werebull of Camargue

https://cinemasojourns.com/2026/08/07/the-werebull-of-camargue/
1•jjgreen•13m ago•0 comments

The long, tangled, and mostly wrong history of the psychedelic toad

https://longreads.com/2026/08/04/psychedelic-toads-ego-trip-kimon-de-greef/
1•bookofjoe•13m ago•0 comments

Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029

https://eco3min.fr/en/us-children-vs-adults-65-and-older/
3•brandonb•14m ago•0 comments

Apple Captures 65% of Global Premium Smartphone Market

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/07/apple-captures-65-percent-of-global-premium-market/
1•tosh•14m ago•0 comments

Gammalsvenskby is a Swedish-speaking city in Ukraine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammalsvenskby
2•blasssky•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A model router should also provide a MCP gateway

https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost/
1•Swapnoneel•18m ago•0 comments

Finding Bigfoot with Async Generators and TypeScript (2025)

https://guy.dev/2025/04/01/finding-bigfoot-with-async-generators-and-typescript/
1•mooreds•19m ago•0 comments

Can Extreme Morning Sickness Be Cured?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/can-extreme-morning-sickness-be-cured
1•frigidwalnut•19m ago•0 comments