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Attabotics CEO on devastating week that brought bankruptcy

https://retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2025/7/6/attabotics-ceo-scott-gravelle-opens-up-about-devastating-week-that-saw-bankruptcy-and-tesco-deal
13•bcantrill•6h ago

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Noumenon72•5h ago
I don't consider this article to contain any information from the CEO's interview other than "yeah, we're bankrupt". It also confusingly transitions into an ad and signup appeal for an innovations award ceremony.
anonzzzies•2h ago
Grating article vs headline for that reason indeed.
SoftTalker•5h ago
"The EDC agreed to approach the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, an early backer of Attabotics, about investing again."

Pension plan investing in a startup? Is this common? I would have expected them to be much more risk-averse.

toomuchtodo•5h ago
https://www.otpp.com/en-ca/investments/our-investments/teach...

The OTPP has a team for investing in late stage startups (Series B onward), “Teachers’ Venture Growth.” Seems rational if you believe you can gain asset class exposure at a lower cost than outsourcing it to the usual VCs ($10B invested).

Marsymars•5h ago
The OTPP has $200+ billion in assets; they’re basically a bog-standard institutional investor trying to maximize risk-adjusted returns over a long-term diversified portfolio. (And being too risk averse wouldn’t generate the returns they need to fund their pension obligations without raising contribution rates.)
fracus•5h ago
The EDC agreed to help find funding, then reported back that they tried and failed, and then put the company into bankruptcy and took over the company for pennies on the dollar. I wonder how sincere their help was.

Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat
252•ananddtyagi•6h ago•116 comments

I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safety_decrypted
330•BlueFalconHD•11h ago•204 comments

Intel's Lion Cove P-Core and Gaming Workloads

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-lion-cove-p-core-and-gaming
156•zdw•8h ago•9 comments

Building the Rust Compiler with GCC

https://fractalfir.github.io/generated_html/cg_gcc_bootstrap.html
145•todsacerdoti•9h ago•17 comments

Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics

https://alpha.lisagui.com/
315•ayaros•12h ago•105 comments

Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore

https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/neanderthals-operated-fat-factory-125000-years-ago/
30•hilux•3d ago•1 comments

The first time I was almost fired from Apple

https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/almostfired/almostfired.html
168•chmaynard•2d ago•53 comments

Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI

https://github.com/ZaneH/piano-trainer
25•FinalDestiny•2d ago•2 comments

A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs

http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-non-anthropomorphized-view-of-llms.html
113•zdw•8h ago•110 comments

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

https://www.crypto101.io/
122•pona-a•9h ago•9 comments

High Performance Image Sensor Processing Using FPGAs [pdf]

https://oda.uni-obuda.hu/bitstream/handle/20.500.14044/10350/Gabor_S_Becker_ertekezes.pdf
25•teleforce•4h ago•1 comments

Why English doesn't use accents

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/why-english-doesnt-use-accents
94•sandbach•9h ago•103 comments

Swedish Campground (2004)

https://www.folklore.org/Swedish_Campground.html
76•CharlesW•7h ago•16 comments

Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

https://www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody-has-a-personality-anymore
358•drankl•8h ago•260 comments

Opencode: AI coding agent, built for the terminal

https://github.com/sst/opencode
184•indigodaddy•13h ago•43 comments

There's a COMPUTER inside my DS flashcart [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq0pJmd7GAA
52•surprisetalk•7h ago•8 comments

I Ported SAP to a 1976 CPU. It Wasn't That Slow

https://github.com/oisee/zvdb-z80/blob/master/ZVDB-Z80-ABAP.md
6•weinzierl•1h ago•0 comments

Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions

https://davidgomes.com/async-queue-interview-ai/
110•davidgomes•14h ago•106 comments

Thesis: Interesting work is less amenable to the use of AI

https://remark.ing/rob/rob/Thesis-interesting-work-ie
43•koch•10h ago•17 comments

LLMs should not replace therapists

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18412
67•layer8•9h ago•84 comments

Get the location of the ISS using DNS

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/get-the-location-of-the-iss-using-dns/
279•8organicbits•18h ago•77 comments

Backlog.md – Markdown‑native Task Manager and Kanban visualizer for any Git repo

https://github.com/MrLesk/Backlog.md
131•mrlesk•11h ago•29 comments

Show HN: A Language Server Implementation for SystemD Unit Files

https://github.com/JFryy/systemd-lsp
29•arandomhuman•6h ago•11 comments

Functions Are Vectors (2023)

https://thenumb.at/Functions-are-Vectors/
179•azeemba•15h ago•87 comments

Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries (2022)

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/uncommon-python/
12•sebg•3d ago•2 comments

Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/04/indian-regulator-bars-us-trading-firm-jane-street-from-accessing-securities-market.html
398•bwfan123•17h ago•222 comments

I don't think AGI is right around the corner

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-june-2025
260•mooreds•10h ago•286 comments

Show HN: Modernized file manager and program manager from Windows 3.x

https://github.com/brianluft/heirloom
22•electroly•7h ago•3 comments

Lessons from creating my first text adventure

https://entropicthoughts.com/lessons-from-creating-first-text-adventure
53•kqr•2d ago•7 comments

The era of full stack chip designers

https://chipinsights.substack.com/p/the-era-of-full-stack-chip-designers
9•bharathw30•3h ago•1 comments