frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

"Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot

https://robotgirlgang.com/2026/10/08/robot-is-a-social-construct-why-your-dishwasher-is-not-a-robot/
5•birdculture•44m ago

Comments

bartvk•25m ago
I strongly advise the podcast "Robot Or Not". The hosts have very strong opinions on what exactly constitutes a robot, and readers write in with edge cases. It's been going on for a long time, so nowadays they also categorize other things.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/robot-or-not/id9979302...

https://open.spotify.com/show/4M2AELzmQy77FxaYZMl6e9

https://pocketcasts.com/podcast/robot-or-not/b911efc0-e2f6-0...

nizmow•6m ago
And if you get a taste for opinionated Siracusa, look up the toaster ovens saga.
walrus01•19m ago
The Crushinator might disagree if the premise is that an appliance/machine shaped thing can't be a robot.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=futurama+...

michaelt•12m ago
I once had a robotics professor who argued any definition of 'robot' broad enough to include roombas and self-driving cars and industrial robot arms (even if made narrow enough to exclude remote-control toy cars, cars with cruise control, CNC mills and washing machines) would inevitably define cruise missiles as robots. Meaning the world had 'killer robots' before we had digital computers.

Instead, he argued the definition of a robot is "I know it when I see it"

TomGarden•10m ago
"I know it when I see it" has to be up there in terms of useless thought-terminating clichés together with "no smoke without fire" and "if he wanted to he would"

IRCv3

https://ircv3.net/
79•basilikum•1h ago•55 comments

Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help

https://nitter.net
74•ForHackernews•41m ago•1 comments

LineageOS 24.0

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-32/
135•timschumi•5h ago•35 comments

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Erodes Your Ability to Persist at Hard Things

https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/using-ai-just-10-minutes-erodes-your-ability-persist-hard-th...
12•giuliomagnifico•31m ago•7 comments

Build your own decision model

https://nishtahir.com/build-your-own-decision-model/
333•softwaredoug•12h ago•74 comments

2D Vehicles

https://patkerr.co.uk/2d-vehicles/
496•Michelangelo11•3d ago•102 comments

A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

https://housing.over.pizza/
370•JumpCrisscross•14h ago•126 comments

The Lightbulb Computer

https://lightbulbcomputer.com/
443•oskarth•1d ago•67 comments

How big is a Git commit?

https://ratfactor.com/cards/git-commit-size
43•theanonymousone•2d ago•19 comments

Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11111-4
71•theanonymousone•3d ago•8 comments

PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP

https://github.com/othermod/PSPi-Version-6
95•therepanic•10h ago•9 comments

Rat's Register Allocator

https://hexrat.cc/pages/blog/2026_10_07
8•mpweiher•1d ago•0 comments

Decade-old RAM is making a comeback

https://www.theverge.com/games/1009140/ram-shortage-intel-amd-ddr4-comeback
80•1potato•1d ago•71 comments

Nix wrote half of my debugger

https://fzakaria.com/2026/10/07/nix-wrote-half-of-my-debugger
201•ingve•2d ago•48 comments

"Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot

https://robotgirlgang.com/2026/10/08/robot-is-a-social-construct-why-your-dishwasher-is-not-a-robot/
5•birdculture•44m ago•6 comments

Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes

https://hangul.ink/blog/hangul-day
51•jbaudanza•2d ago•10 comments

Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

https://github.com/rociiu/talorys
299•rociiu•1d ago•134 comments

I wish you the best in the Offline

https://daverupert.com/2026/09/i-wish-you-the-best-in-the-offline/
50•birdculture•3h ago•28 comments

Knuth reward check

https://www.thomas-huehn.com/knuth-reward-check/
197•Curiositry•19h ago•71 comments

Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/experiment-running-hospital-code/
143•rafiss•1d ago•57 comments

3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

https://status.yandex.cloud/en/incidents/2136
236•defly•3h ago•299 comments

Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2026/10/07/microsoft-execution-containers-policy-drive...
194•smokel•2d ago•53 comments

Cyril Hilsum invented the flat-screen displays that hold us in thrall

https://www.economist.com/obituary/2026/10/08/cyril-hilsum-invented-the-flat-screen-displays-that...
7•sohkamyung•1d ago•0 comments

OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

https://openscad.org/
153•b-man•4d ago•117 comments

Deterministic Simulation Testing in Celld

https://celld.dev/docs/engineering/deterministic-simulation-testing/
25•handfuloflight•1d ago•2 comments

500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter

https://momo5502.com/posts/2026-10-09-game-decompilation/
103•davikr•9h ago•75 comments

Show HN: Diffle, a keyboard-centric diff viewer with LSP support

https://github.com/moritzwilksch/diffle
53•mwil1000•2d ago•7 comments

Unikernels were hard. key word: were

https://ghuntley.com/unikernels/
167•ghuntley•20h ago•83 comments

Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/10/research_fralinbiomed_upfhutelin.html
161•gmays•1d ago•126 comments

GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiZmM6hwwAU
107•pizzaiolo•7h ago•30 comments