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AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphagenome-ai-for-better-understanding-the-genome/
372•i_love_limes•11h ago•110 comments

Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor

226•mariano54•11h ago•204 comments

Alternative Layout System

https://alternativelayoutsystem.com/scripts/#same-sizer
128•smartmic•6h ago•16 comments

The time is right for a DOM templating API

https://justinfagnani.com/2025/06/26/the-time-is-right-for-a-dom-templating-api/
85•mdhb•6h ago•45 comments

Kea 3.0, our first LTS version

https://www.isc.org/blogs/kea-3-0/
51•conductor•5h ago•19 comments

How much slower is random access, really?

https://samestep.com/blog/random-access/
40•sestep•3d ago•7 comments

Fault Tolerant Llama training

https://pytorch.org/blog/fault-tolerant-llama-training-with-2000-synthetic-failures-every-15-seconds-and-no-checkpoints-on-crusoe-l40s/
27•Mougatine•3d ago•5 comments

Dickinson's Dresses on the Moon

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06/20/dickinsons-dresses-on-the-moon/
12•Bluestein•3d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Magnitude – Open-source AI browser automation framework

https://github.com/magnitudedev/magnitude
58•anerli•7h ago•22 comments

Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator

https://snowemu.com/
202•ColinWright•16h ago•73 comments

A Review of Aerospike Nozzles: Current Trends in Aerospace Applications

https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/12/6/519
68•PaulHoule•10h ago•32 comments

Matrix v1.15

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/06/26/matrix-v1.15-release/
126•todsacerdoti•6h ago•37 comments

A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-like-shape-always-lands-the-same-side-up-20250625/
619•robinhouston•1d ago•150 comments

Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout

https://spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-solar-microgrids
347•ohjeez•1d ago•199 comments

Show HN: I built an AI dataset generator

https://github.com/metabase/dataset-generator
121•matthewhefferon•11h ago•24 comments

Introducing Gemma 3n

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n-developer-guide/
283•bundie•9h ago•131 comments

Shifts in diatom and dinoflagellate biomass in the North Atlantic over 6 decades

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0323675
43•PaulHoule•8h ago•2 comments

SigNoz (YC W21, Open Source Datadog) Is Hiring DevRel Engineers (Remote)(US)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/signoz/jobs/cPaxcxt-devrel-engineer-remote-us-time-zones
1•pranay01•7h ago

Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator's Iconic Opening Battle, Part I

https://acoup.blog/2025/06/06/collections-nitpicking-gladiators-iconic-opening-battle-part-i/
4•diodorus•3d ago•0 comments

Typr – TUI typing test with a word selection algorithm inspired by keybr

https://github.com/Sakura-sx/typr
40•Sakura-sx•3d ago•29 comments

Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship

https://angadh.com/space-data-centers-1
56•angadh•5h ago•67 comments

“My Malformed Bones” – Harry Crews’s Counterlives

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/07/my-malformed-bones-charlie-lee-harry-crews/
9•Caiero•3d ago•0 comments

The Business of Betting on Catastrophe

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-business-of-betting-on-catastrophe/
67•anarbadalov•3d ago•31 comments

Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00507-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS096098222500507X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
103•EvgeniyZh•7h ago•50 comments

Memory safety is table stakes

https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/memory-safety-merely-table-stakes
66•comradelion•6h ago•70 comments

Ambient Garden

https://ambient.garden
312•fipar•3d ago•56 comments

“Why is the Rust compiler so slow?”

https://sharnoff.io/blog/why-rust-compiler-slow
148•Bogdanp•6h ago•163 comments

Access BMC UART on Supermicro X11SSH

https://github.com/zarhus/zarhusbmc/discussions/3
57•pietrushnic•11h ago•10 comments

Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers

https://crescentro.se/posts/writing-drivers/
423•sbt567•4d ago•59 comments

Muvera: Making multi-vector retrieval as fast as single-vector search

https://research.google/blog/muvera-making-multi-vector-retrieval-as-fast-as-single-vector-search/
91•georgehill•15h ago•7 comments
Open in hackernews

Robots that learn

https://openai.com/index/robots-that-learn/
84•ulrischa•5h ago

Comments

HelloUsername•5h ago
Previous discussion 16-may-2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14350705
echelon•5h ago
This needs a (2017).
tregoning•5h ago
The logo in the hoodie is what made me realized it was old
cyrux004•4h 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•3h 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•2h 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•2h 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•4h 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•4h 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•4h 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•4h ago
For a second I got excited that openai was actually doing cool stuff again.
yalogin•3h 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•3h ago
How much is Boston dynamics worth ? Seems like that would have been a better deal than ive’s io.
sorcerer-mar•38m ago
But sama didn't have an existing stake in Boston Dynamics?
huem0n•3h 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•1h ago
That was amazing.
wombatpm•1h ago
I think the robot sorting Lego bricks has an attitude.
pprunty•2h ago
finally giving the white collar people a break i see...
mikehollinger•2h ago
(needs a tag to be 2017)
torginus•2h ago
Yeah, here I was thinking there's something new coming out of OpenAI that's not another LLM/diffusion model.
lasc4r•1h 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•58m ago
My cynical side says "exec" and "expert" are mutually exclusive.
stephc_int13•2h ago
Why did they (OpenAI) stopped showing robotics related progress and demos, this one is seven years old...
alterom•2h ago
Robocop (1987)¹ might provide an insight :D

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

Ifkaluva•1h ago
They dissolved their robotics division