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Humanoid Robot Actuators: The Complete Engineering Guide

https://www.firgelli.com/pages/humanoid-robot-actuators
51•ofrzeta•2h ago

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num42•53m ago
Check out opensource actuator for robots.

Opentorque actuator

https://www.gabrael.io/new-page

https://github.com/G-Levine/OpenTorque-Actuator

aardvarkdriver•37m ago
Why the AI "engineering expert"? Seems to take some credibility away from what otherwise could be an interesting and informative read.
Miles_Stone•27m ago
This is a fascinating topic. The engineering details on actuators are really well explained.
modeless•23m ago
AI was clearly heavily used in the making of this article, and I almost dismissed it as slop. But after reading it I think there's enough correct information here for it to be useful as a general overview of the problems in the space.

Humanoid Robot Actuators: The Complete Engineering Guide

https://www.firgelli.com/pages/humanoid-robot-actuators
51•ofrzeta•2h ago•4 comments

Using "underdrawings" for accurate text and numbers

https://samcollins.blog/underdrawings/
138•samcollins•2d ago•23 comments

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135
334•nullagent•12h ago•106 comments

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper

https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude
338•alattaran•8h ago•124 comments

Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry Through Microbenchmarking (2019)

https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2019/09/hard-disk-geometry-microbenchmarking/
40•TapamN•3d ago•1 comments

Roger Sweet, Creator of the He-Man Action Figure, Dies at 91

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/arts/roger-sweet-dead-he-man.html
30•ChrisArchitect•2d ago•2 comments

The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions

https://jdgr.net/the-hidden-costs-of-great-abstractions
122•jdgr•7h ago•31 comments

Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)

https://aruljohn.com/blog/macos-created-tar-files-linux-errors/
83•heresie-dabord•3d ago•51 comments

OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-eme...
356•donsupreme•1d ago•288 comments

Southwest Headquarters Tour

https://katherinemichel.github.io/blog/travel/southwest-headquarters-tour-2026.html
223•KatiMichel•13h ago•69 comments

US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-usindian-space-mission-extreme-subsidence.html
135•leopoldj•2d ago•55 comments

A desktop made for one

https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html
287•xngbuilds•14h ago•129 comments

K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s

https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup
39•rickcarlino•2d ago•11 comments

Introduction to Atom

https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/atom.html
71•susam•8h ago•19 comments

Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages with Navigations for Interactions

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/small-html-pages/
10•OuterVale•1h ago•2 comments

A Treasure Trove of Fossils Rewrites the Story of Early Life

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-treasure-trove-of-cambrian-fossils-rewrites-the-story-of-early-l...
6•worldvoyageur•2d ago•0 comments

Let's Buy Spirit Air

https://letsbuyspiritair.com/
290•bjhess•6h ago•271 comments

Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors

https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exploitation-by-covert-surveillance-actors/
125•miohtama•13h ago•8 comments

Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

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282•oceansky•5d ago•174 comments

New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/attributed-to-banksy-a-new-statue-of-a-suited-man-blind...
331•dryadin•11h ago•303 comments

The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility

https://xogium.me/the-text-mode-lie-why-modern-tuis-are-a-nightmare-for-accessibility
167•SpyCoder77•6h ago•69 comments

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/
654•teleforce•15h ago•366 comments

Why TUIs are back

https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/why-tuis-are-back/
308•rickcarlino•11h ago•316 comments

Text-to-CAD

https://github.com/earthtojake/text-to-cad
99•softservo•3d ago•29 comments

I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jNQDcpHc68
93•cyrc•12h ago•20 comments

Security through obscurity is not bad

https://mobeigi.com/blog/security/security-through-obscurity-is-not-bad/
141•mobeigi•15h ago•153 comments

Make your own microforest (2025)

https://ambrook.com/offrange/environment/a-forest-in-your-pocket
86•bookofjoe•10h ago•17 comments

What is Z-Angle Memory and why is Intel developing it?

https://www.hpcwire.com/2026/02/05/what-is-z-angle-memory-and-why-is-intel-developing-it/
99•rbanffy•2d ago•36 comments

Agentic Coding Is a Trap

https://larsfaye.com/articles/agentic-coding-is-a-trap
308•ayoisaiah•7h ago•208 comments

Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web

https://github.com/bring-shrubbery/ml-sharp-web
167•bring-shrubbery•20h ago•41 comments