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Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force attacks

https://metin.nextc.org/posts/Credit_Cards_Are_Vulnerable_To_Brute_Force_Kind_Attacks.html
40•kodbraker•50m ago•33 comments

Ti-84 Evo

https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-evo
62•thatxliner•1h ago•60 comments

New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/its-possible-to-learn-in-our-sleep-should-we
112•XzetaU8•3h ago•57 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

193•whoishiring•6h ago•208 comments

Show HN: Destiny – Claude Code's fortune Teller skill

https://github.com/xodn348/destiny
18•xodn348•1h ago•5 comments

whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search

https://github.com/whohas/whohas
100•peter_d_sherman•6h ago•22 comments

City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo

https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sale...
165•joshcsimmons•2h ago•33 comments

Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment

https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/
29•zdw•1d ago•26 comments

Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yerr4m1yno
144•reconnecting•4h ago•158 comments

Whimsical Animations Course Open House

https://courses.joshwcomeau.com/wham/open-house/00-introduction
24•SpyCoder77•1h ago•4 comments

AI uses less water than the public thinks

https://californiawaterblog.com/2026/04/26/ai-water-use-distractions-and-lessons-for-california/
252•hirpslop•3h ago•232 comments

Artemis II Fault Tolerance

https://alearningaday.blog/2026/05/01/artemis-ii-fault-tolerance/
36•speckx•3h ago•21 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

102•whoishiring•6h ago•195 comments

Show HN: AI CAD Harness

https://fusion.adam.new/install
34•zachdive•3h ago•43 comments

Understand Anything

https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything
62•taubek•3h ago•17 comments

Apocalypse Early Warning System

https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/
59•carlsborg•4h ago•25 comments

Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable
350•sleepingNomad•12h ago•115 comments

Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died

https://www.online-tribute.com/SallyMcKee
95•deater•6h ago•18 comments

Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming

https://github.com/microsoft/lib0xc
14•wooster•2h ago•2 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

102•proberts•6h ago•167 comments

The Gay Jailbreak Technique

https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak.md
230•bobsmooth•4h ago•70 comments

Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1854
111•ingve•9h ago•25 comments

AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/amazon-stuck-with-months-of-repairs-after-drone-strikes-o...
99•johnbarron•3h ago•28 comments

Historic Tennessee Hotel Is Also Home to the Greatest Duck Tradition (2016)

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/tennessees-most-historic-hotel-also-home-greatest-duck-tradition
6•NaOH•2d ago•0 comments

Your website is not for you

https://websmith.studio/blog/your-website-is-not-for-you/
230•pumbaa•10h ago•168 comments

Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack"

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/ubuntu-infrastructure-has-been-down-for-more-than-a-day/
48•RattlesnakeJake•2h ago•11 comments

An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open

https://keepthingsopen.com
185•tvararu•6h ago•12 comments

The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced

https://midnightmurmurations.substack.com/p/the-x-files-has-made-me-nostalgic
111•Teever•3h ago•104 comments

A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982)

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/Dijkstra_Letter.htm
41•tosh•9h ago•41 comments

SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/spacex_debris_landing/
6•beardyw•9h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment

https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/
28•zdw•1d ago
https://archive.is/Wro1e

Comments

dataking•1h ago
no paywall: https://archive.is/Wro1e
kentonv•6m ago
archive.is is malicious. Stop using it.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...

martythemaniak•1h ago
Rodney Brooks has a great essay on why he's skeptical that the current humanoid hype will deliver and the central claim is that human dexterity is extremely advanced any today's humanoids lack even the sensors and data needed to start building the models needed to match human performance.

https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dex...

I saw him post this article on his Bluesky saying that they're the first ones he's seen that are close to cracking this issue (he's an investor/adviser).

dyauspitr•1h ago
Yeah I’m going to completely disregard this because I feel like we are less than a year away from completely human feeling humanoids. This is based on nothing but obsessively watching and following humanoid progress on the internet.
jfengel•53m ago
I obsessively avoid any kind of "technology is going thataway" content. So I haven't seen anything that looks like humanoid progress in quite some time. About the only thing that has snuck around my barrier is Musk apparently claiming he'll have it by the end of the year, which is pretty conclusive evidence that they won't have it by the end of the year.

So if you're seeing anything that actually seems to merit attention, I'd love a few pointers. I could use some good news.

ManuelKiessling•53m ago
What was eye-opening, or rather, sobering for me was when I read an interview with an engineer who explained how incredible difficult it is for a robot to orient itself when it is lying on the floor and wants to stand up.

Yes, it can do the required motions just fine, that’s not the point. But think about yourself when you are lying on the floor: it’s really easy to determine if this is safe, if you are lying underneath something and so on. You just feel that.

A robot cannot do that; all they can do is look around as good as possible and visually determine their situation.

jgord•44m ago
I naively assumed they have a gravity sensor, so will generally have an approximate up vector ?
rcxdude•36m ago
Theu have an IMU, what they don't generally have is the various aspects of touch.
card_zero•17m ago
The point about being aware of lying underneath some object was interesting. Sound might matter, like the frequency of background noise changes when you're in an enclosed space, and listening to your own shuffling noises helps you know when you've planted your feet right - or something. I have some really effective ear plugs and I notice they make it harder to move around.

Having said that, I've probably hit my head on the underside of an open cupboard door five or six times in my life, and I expect to do it again.

ManuelKiessling•31m ago
Yeah but imagine yourself lying on the floor with your vision being your only sense, plus an info floating in your mind: „fyi, you are no longer upright“.

That’s all, you feel nothing else. Now your job is to move all parts of your body in just the right way.

AndrewDucker•22m ago
But I have more than that. I can definitely sense which way is up unless I'm underwater.
card_zero•10m ago
Or have an amusing inner ear infection. So OK, sure, it's vector, not a flag.
LeCompteSftware•20m ago
It is also things like "I can feel that my left knee is bearing a little too much weight, I should shift weight to my right hand and use that to push myself up" - things that come automatically to animals after learning the hard way in infancy (some of it is innate; baby animals are clumsy, but usually more mobile than human infants). Regardless of learned-vs-instinct, these abilities rely on sophisticated "sensors" and cognition. I suspect engineering the sensors is actually a bit harder, but I'm also not optimistic about a deep learning approach to the cognition.

A significant underappreciated advantage of animals over AI: lifeforms can "learn the hard way" more easily than 2020s robots because of cheap self-repair. AI labs are reluctant to damage their robots, but an essential part of humans learning to move safely is severely bonking your head and reckoning with the consequences - "hey, dummy, why did you trip and fall and bonk your head? Because you were running like an idiot."

I am learning the hard way to this day :) I have been practicing with work knives. A few months ago I got stupid and impatient, and sliced my thumb nastily. If I didn't block the cut with my thumbnail (still ruined) I might have chopped bone. It is hard to say precisely what I learned from this experience - "don't be stupid and impatient" is facile - but I know I learned a lot. I am actually optimistic about targeted surgical robotics. But for a general-use humanoid robot, I would not want to give it a knife if it's not capable of feeling pain. I never use big knives anywhere near my cats because I understand intuitively that they are nimble and unpredictable and easily stabbed by knives. I didn't need to be trained on this. A robot kind of does. Yikes.

nancyminusone•44m ago
Well, as someone who has tried to build at least a couple small robot arms, I think we are probably closer to 20-50 years away. Both the power and dexterity are not there.

Right now, only a human can both push over a boulder and pick up a tiny speck from the floor using the same actuator.

rcxdude•35m ago
Beware generalising from a carefully curated and presented set of demos to real life.
megaman821•12m ago
I wonder how accurate joint positions and muscle activations can be from just a POV camera. Maybe it’s not crazy to think someone could get tens of millions of hours of well-labeled training data.
jfengel•51m ago
Back in the 90s, I developed a rule of thumb: if I saw it in Wired, it's because it was either already over, or it wasn't going to happen at all.

I was so disappointed when I saw BetterPlace (the car with replaceable batteries) on the cover of Wired. It seemed like such a good idea. Too bad the rule of thumb meant it wouldn't work.

Rules of thumb were made to be broken. Maybe this time it will be different.

chrisweekly•48m ago
Anyone else here have happy memories of playing with Armatron? Circa 1984?
manyturtles•27m ago
Apparently yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43718493
iancmceachern•27m ago
Yes! The most amazing part about those things was they achieved all those axis' of motion with one or two motors.
HardCodedBias•40m ago
This one is different? What about unitree? What about their demo at the Spring Festival Gala?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykiuz1ZdGBc

That sure felt "different".

No doubt hands are important, but I think you've missed a lot here Wired.

darenr•9m ago
those were impressive but were also RC. I think an important part of robotics is not just the mechanics of humanoid motion, but the independent control of those mechanics.
mediaman•7m ago
Many of the Chinese companies are doing very impressive open-loop sim2real. They make great demonstrations. They are not great at dealing with the real world and unpredictable environments.

(That's not true of all Chinese companies - some are doing really impressive work with closed loop systems in unpredictable environments. But many of the highly viewed ones with coordinated dance performances or martial arts are intended more as theater to government financial sponsors than useful function. The technically impressive performances do not look as visually impressive.)

SpaceNoodled•36m ago
> a ChatGPT moment for the physical world.

That's not a good thing, WIRED.

gwbas1c•29m ago
I want Rosie (fictional robot from the TV show "The Jetsons")

Basically, I want a robotic butler / maid that will do most of the cleanup around the house.

davely•19m ago
Haha! Instead, you’ll get a robot that will make you art, music, and tell you stories and you get to toil away cleaning the house.