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OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
479•klaussilveira•7h ago•120 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
818•xnx•12h ago•491 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
40•matheusalmeida•1d ago•3 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
161•isitcontent•7h ago•18 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
158•dmpetrov•8h ago•69 comments

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/
97•jnord•3d ago•14 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
53•quibono•4d ago•7 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
211•eljojo•10h ago•135 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
264•vecti•9h ago•125 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
332•aktau•14h ago•158 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
329•ostacke•13h ago•86 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
415•todsacerdoti•15h ago•220 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
27•kmm•4d ago•1 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
344•lstoll•13h ago•245 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
5•romes•4d ago•1 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
53•phreda4•7h ago•9 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
202•i5heu•10h ago•148 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
116•vmatsiiako•12h ago•38 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
153•limoce•3d ago•79 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
248•surprisetalk•3d ago•32 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
28•gfortaine•5h ago•4 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1004•cdrnsf•17h ago•421 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
49•rescrv•15h ago•17 comments

I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor

https://andrewjrod.substack.com/p/im-going-to-cure-my-girlfriends-brain
74•ray__•4h ago•36 comments

Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
38•lebovic•1d ago•11 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
78•antves•1d ago•59 comments

How virtual textures work

https://www.shlom.dev/articles/how-virtual-textures-really-work/
32•betamark•14h ago•28 comments

Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents

https://github.com/stablyai/agent-slack
41•nwparker•1d ago•11 comments

Claude Opus 4.6

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6
2275•HellsMaddy•1d ago•981 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
8•gmays•2h ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Robots that learn

https://openai.com/index/robots-that-learn/
96•ulrischa•7mo ago

Comments

HelloUsername•7mo ago
Previous discussion 16-may-2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14350705
echelon•7mo ago
This needs a (2017).
tregoning•7mo ago
The logo in the hoodie is what made me realized it was old
cyrux004•7mo ago
Agree ; got excited too soon.

was listening to Kyle Vogt about his new bot company and he described that folding laundry is sort of a frontier problem for robotics and we are still many ways out from there. There's solution from physical intelligence and probably other companies; but they are still fairly complex and not as easily reproducible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXbrt_2Fvgk

Still looking for the LLM moment in robotics

api•7mo ago
Con: a small chance it may take over the world and exterminate humanity.

Pro: can fold my laundry.

Sounds like a good deal to me.

somethoughts•7mo ago
haha - yes - sometimes when you look at all the Web 2.0 and beyond startups, all of the startups seems to be at least original founded to solve problems single people think need solving:

* finding good looking people in college

* sending dm's to other people

* carpooling with strangers

* crashing on strangers couches

* getting takeout delivered

* robots/drones that fight each other

* the meta verse

* the equivalent of digital beanie babies

Meanwhile automation to help out with stuff like laundry, dishwashing, cooking home cooked meals, other household chores, helping the elderly, etc. remain untouched.

echelon•7mo ago
> Meanwhile automation to help out with stuff like laundry, dishwashing, cooking home cooked meals, other household chores, helping the elderly, etc. remain untouched.

The other things were easy.

iandanforth•7mo ago
Man I saw the Fetch with its busted up gripper plastics and shocked to think they hadn't mothballed it and that it still worked!
thrhhifgjgg4677•7mo ago
I was going to say: ”this looks quite lame compared to stuff that's coming out these days” not then realized it's from 2017.

A lot has changed in robotics since then...

sneak•7mo ago
Now that OpenAI’s CPO has been sworn into the actual US Army, how long until they are sending the current improved versions of these things through basic training?
upghost•7mo ago
For a second I got excited that openai was actually doing cool stuff again.
yalogin•7mo ago
Well the whole video gives a 2000 era apocalypse scenario movie vibe. Is this just OpenAI trying to fit a square peg into a round hole? Do we really need general intelligence robots at this point? This is more poc than anything but still
nashashmi•7mo ago
How much is Boston dynamics worth ? Seems like that would have been a better deal than ive’s io.
sorcerer-mar•7mo ago
But sama didn't have an existing stake in Boston Dynamics?
huem0n•7mo ago
If your disappointed by this being from 2017, check out some actual recent advancements (June 17 2025) by a different company https://generalistai.com/blog.html
mingabunga•7mo ago
That was amazing.
wombatpm•7mo ago
I think the robot sorting Lego bricks has an attitude.
pprunty•7mo ago
finally giving the white collar people a break i see...
mikehollinger•7mo ago
(needs a tag to be 2017)
torginus•7mo ago
Yeah, here I was thinking there's something new coming out of OpenAI that's not another LLM/diffusion model.
lasc4r•7mo ago
They (AI Corp. Execs) seem to think LLMs will be central to AGI. They are the experts I guess, but I have my doubts.
jagged-chisel•7mo ago
My cynical side says "exec" and "expert" are mutually exclusive.
stephc_int13•7mo ago
Why did they (OpenAI) stopped showing robotics related progress and demos, this one is seven years old...
alterom•7mo ago
Robocop (1987)¹ might provide an insight :D

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¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop

Ifkaluva•7mo ago
They dissolved their robotics division