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Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8
1336•mfiguiere•11h ago•595 comments

Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck

https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/
78•robotswantdata•1h ago•17 comments

Tell HN: PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS

146•leumon•2h ago•76 comments

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

https://www.mturk.com/
416•tmp10423288442•12h ago•126 comments

GLM-5.3-Flash

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash
1066•Philpax•22h ago•537 comments

U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-state-department-pauses-immigrant-visa-applications-25b31b23
605•sss111•19h ago•891 comments

Adentris (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/adentris/jobs/ZpMXZ0C-founding-engineer-ai-rcm-healthcare-p...
1•SergeyYudovskiy•40m ago

Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat
601•nderjung•18h ago•108 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2

https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/
315•pizzaiolo•14h ago•142 comments

Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/22/3765/2022/nhess-22-3765-2022.html
221•totetsu•13h ago•151 comments

An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/
433•Velocifyer•18h ago•181 comments

Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity

https://humanprogress.org/ac-is-not-a-luxury-it-is-a-necessity/
81•surprisetalk•40m ago•108 comments

CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive
713•GrumpySciGuy•10h ago•479 comments

Stripe acquires Clerky

https://www.clerky.com/blog/clerky-is-joining-stripe
199•zakshay•15h ago•41 comments

Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday's catastrophic glacier collapse

https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/2092875025246261494
14•chinathrow•37m ago•2 comments

Zohran and the Short Link

https://iamwillwang.com/notes/zohran-and-the-short-link/
233•wxw•12h ago•88 comments

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/
276•amrrs•17h ago•371 comments

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

https://twitterwebviewer.com/
502•motownphilly•22h ago•311 comments

Laion Big Video Dataset

https://projects.laion.ai/bvd/
68•ks2048•10h ago•22 comments

Nebula Sans

https://www.nebulasans.com
442•GavinAnderegg•21h ago•173 comments

Australia Bans Generative A.I. From Official Music Charts

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/world/australia/australia-ai-music-chart-ban.html
22•bookofjoe•1h ago•4 comments

FDA approves first in class targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-class-targeted-therapy-met...
240•leopoldj•20h ago•61 comments

CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

https://hotosm.org/en/news/comaps-the-offline-app-that-guided-rescuers-without-a-signal-in-the-ve...
296•gedankenstuecke•19h ago•70 comments

IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-08-24-ibm-unveils-next-generation-dual-architecture-processor-for-i...
147•porridgeraisin•16h ago•106 comments

The Harness Is the Thing

https://scott-fryxell.github.io/blog/the-harness-is-the-thing/
145•sfryxell•19h ago•60 comments

The turbulent AI era is here

https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make
289•LVB•20h ago•286 comments

Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down

36•madduci•2h ago•16 comments

Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23228
155•matt_d•16h ago•21 comments

Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

https://acceptmarkdown.com/
156•tilt•16h ago•90 comments

Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)

https://www.actinideinc.com/press/actinide-becomes-first-startup-to-ever-enrich-natural-uranium-t...
167•dsalzman•17h ago•81 comments
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Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck

https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/
75•robotswantdata•1h ago

Comments

unprovable•53m ago
Cute, and quite something if the sim-to-real pipeline is as smooth as we all might hope.
tietjens•45m ago
What is the battery life?
amelius•14m ago
And can it walk back to a charge station and hook itself up?
dv_dt•6m ago
Add a hack to repurpose a phone wireless charger pad?
k3liutZu•43m ago
My wife would love one of these.

She's still bitter we didn't get the Sony dog a decade ago.

jCalamari•39m ago
AI is coming for pet market too.
amelius•13m ago
AI is taking all the fun jobs. Now also for pets.
cs1996•38m ago
this looks 100x better than Casio's https://www.casio.com/us/moflin/
utopiah•23m ago
This "with emotions like a living creature" should just not be allowed.
kodoman•7m ago
why not?
dgellow•3m ago
Because it’s a lie
martianvoid•29m ago
This actually seems awesome, just going through the video on their site made me burst out with 100 different ways in which I would tinker with it, spend time in learning different gaits, some RL or some tricks to have it jump or do a back flip

I can see some parallel between how arduino gave hobbyist a mini computer they can use in any way imaginable, I can see this kind of thing being used to solve unimaginable problems by hobbyist or RL computer scientist or heck any UG student with claude subscription

Mxbonn•27m ago
This looks really cool! The cuteness of the demo alone makes me want one. Ideally I would also love for it to have a real use case in my home but right now I really cant think of one.
utopiah•20m ago
for microduck I didn't find but their older reachy_miny was Apache 2.0 and hardware design files as Creative Commons BY-SA-NC
Depurator•18m ago
neat! since its written in rust, why not use https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx2 for ipc?
SomeonesAccount•6m ago
That is sick
Gannon6790•3m ago
I'm wanna train some to chase after turtles.