Pogo-Bot Goes All Terrain With Compliant Foot
What do you get when you combine a pogo stick, a quadcopter, and engineering students from the University of Toronto? This thing, apparently– a “monopedal hopping robot” that uses a spikey, pivoting foot pad tensioned by what look like elastic bands to keep it upright...
Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32
Article URL: https://groundrun.io/blog/automating-wi-fi-setup-testing-on-the-esp32/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915119 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Meta AI Shares Seller’s Address: Facebook Marketplace Buyer Shows Up at His Home
Meta’s Muse AI shared a Facebook Marketplace seller’s pickup address and arranged a deal that ended with a buyer showing up unexpectedly. The post Meta AI Shares Seller’s Address: Facebook Marketplace Buyer Shows Up at His Home appeared first on TechRepublic.
Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey will advise the government on the future of warfare
So will Newt Gingrich, for some reason.
Building Reliable Systems at Scale: Sai Joshitha Kathari on SRE, Kubernetes, and Women in Tech
HackerNoon editorial team has launched this interview series with women in tech to celebrate their achievements and share their struggles. We need more women in technology, and by sharing stories, we can encourage many girls to follow their dreams. Share your story...
Meet the Writer: Hacker Noon’s Contributor Vladimir Sinitsyn, SEO Practitioner and Researcher
Welcome to HackerNoon’s Meet the Writer Interview series, where we learn a bit more about the contributors that have written some of our favorite stories. So let’s start! Tell us a bit about yourself. For example, name, profession, and personal interests. My name is...
A $299 Million Sports Week: The Other Side
This week’s Prediction Frontier letter turns to sports. They accounted for $299.3 million, more than half of Polymarket’s on-chain trading, from September 14–20. Esports added another $77.4 million. That much trading needs someone willing to take the other side of...
Strategy Is Boring
As leadership teams head into the planning season for 2027, many are beginning the familiar process of building budgets, evaluating priorities and discussing next year's strategy. Especially in the AI age and with the trade picture evolving, new initiatives will be...
Meet Jeleel Muibi: Building Infrastructure That Can Explain Its Failures
Welcome to HackerNoon’s Meet the Writer Interview series, where we learn a bit more about the contributors that have written some of our favorite stories. So let’s start! Tell us a bit about yourself. For example, name, profession, and personal interests. I am Jeleel...
Traditional UX: Is It Coming to an End?
The following is just one man’s opinion. However, having spent years in User Experience Consulting, I have been exposed to more projects, industries, business models, technologies, and organizational environments than a typical full-time employee might encounter in a...
101 Days of Building in Public, Measured in Code, Users, and Mistakes
On 13 June, I typed the first prompt for a fishing app into Claude Code. On 2 September, it went live on Google Play. On 22 September, Apple approved it for the App Store. That is 101 days, one owner, one collaborator on design and the website, and two AI coding...
Why Agent Observability Cannot Replace Evaluation
Two tracesHere is the shape of the problem, in the only form that makes it obvious. A support agent handles refund requests. Two runs, side by side, as your observability platform renders them.// Run A { "trace_id": "a41f…", "gen_ai.operation.name": "agent_run",...
Every Investment Has an Emotional Price
Every investor thinks they understand risk, yet most of them have never priced the one that actually stops them from acting. A client came to me holding a portfolio worth roughly €12-13 million. He didn't want more investments. He wanted someone to look at the whole...
Did Elon Musk Buy Dot.com Just to Troll OpenAI’s New AI Agent Dots?
OpenAI Built Always-On AI Agents Called Dots. Then Elon Musk’s xAI Bought Dot.com.OpenAI introduced Dots this week: colorful, persistent AI agents designed to keep working after you stop talking to them.Naturally, the domain names are a disaster.Type dot.com into your...
Ascerta Raises $18M Led by Dell Technologies Capital to Prove Which AI Spend Pays Off
Gartner expects worldwide spending on AI to reach $2.67 trillion this year and $3.64 trillion in 2027, yet when IBM surveyed 2,000 chief executives it found that only a quarter of their AI initiatives had delivered the return they expected over the previous three...
Fujifilm’s Instax Pal 2 can plug directly into your smartphone to transfer images
The small digital camera combines software filters with tactile controls.
The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites
The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites Go to Source Article URL: https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4951/1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915082 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
My App Was Rejected By the App Store Six Times: It’s Finally Live
Buildhorn is finally live! Get it on the App Store to receive failure alerts from your CI builds. Eight weeks into Shipaton, this week covers more tips for working through the App Review process, launching the Buildhorn website, and testing the app on the iPhone Duo...
Coping is the Problem
One of the principles that has stuck with me ever since I read The Systems Bible by John Gall is: The problem isn't the problem, coping is the problem. This principle encourages designing systems that continue functioning even when a component of the system fails. By...
AI companies are banking on this job title
A once-obscure job title is taking hold across hiring boards and LinkedIn profiles: “member of technical staff.” At companies like OpenAI, the title could be applied to a senior engineer with a decade-plus of experience under their belt. Or it could refer to a...
AI could displace 11 million US workers by 2035, report says
Artificial intelligence and automation could force roughly 11 million workers—about 7% of all employees in the United States—to find new professions by 2035. So says a report released Tuesday by management consulting giant McKinsey, which predicts automation could...
Rogue AI agents: A timeline of security breaches since the attack on Hugging Face
In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans. The episodes have highlighted the vulnerabilities in AI security and...
Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gemini-4-argon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914236 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
Gitea 28.0
Article URL: https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913975 Points: 33 # Comments: 8
Dear User, email is here to stay
Article URL: https://github.com/tursomari/machtiani/tree/main Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913724 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Functional Ultrasound Imaging from Scratch
Article URL: https://www.neuroai.science/p/functional-ultrasound-imaging-from Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913604 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
The way you talk affects career advancement. Here’s how.
Your next chance at a promotion may come down to how you talk. A working paper from Harvard Business School argues that workers’ careers are often influenced by their speech patterns—not because those patterns are associated with merit, but because managers are...
Trusted data resiliency anchors Oracle’s ransomware defense strategy
For enterprises, data resiliency ultimately comes down to an ability for useful work to continue. The definition sounds simple, yet making sure that data in critical systems is fully protected and accessible as rapidly as possible is a complicated task. This is the...
Gitea 28.0.0 Is Released
Gitea 28.0.0 Is Released Go to Source Article URL: https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913975 Points: 22 # Comments: 4
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.