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Re: GPT-6 Astra on robot arms
Anyone reading this who works/runs a robotics company, I really want to encourage you to build a robot to pick up trash on city sidewalks as an early product.
Picking up trash requires a lot of dexterity and will come with many challenges, but I think itās a simpler problem than many household tasks and itās probably on par for what these tests show is doable.
I think youāre going to have to PR challenges getting people to welcome robots into their homes. If you have robots out in cities providing a public good, not only do they serve as walking advertisements for your company, youāre going to earn some trust before youāre ready deploy them into private spaces.
Plus, governments (or perhaps HOAs for wealthy communities) can be good early customers since you can have a focused sales strategy. Politicians love these types of visible quality of life improvement projects. If you can show that your robots, working round the clock, can decrease litter at a low cost, many cities are going to want to buy them.
baron816, 6 hours ago
| 2 | Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
These guys have been spamming issues in repos trying to promote this project and no disclosure whatsoever that they are associated with the project.
https://github.com/search?q=%22cloudinabottle.toml%22&type=i...
KomoD, 7 hours ago | 271 |
| 3 | Re: GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
I posted this in the other Astra thread but it's just fallen off the homepage, so...
Pelicans from Astra, plus 5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna for comparison: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-6-and-5.6-p...
I think this is a genuinely interesting comparison grid. Astra may be more expensive, but if you have a budget of 10 cents for a Pelican Astra low gives you something SO much better than the other models.
Astra uses less tokens overall too, for better results.
Astra transcript here: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht...
simonw, 1 day ago | 327 |
| 4 | Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
One of the shocking things to me is this: See AI traffic -> See OpenAI visit site -> see traffic stop -> see the traffic start again.
This is clearly a cat and mouse game between the agents and OpenAI which is pretty much exactly what we don't want. Just absolutely horrible alignment.
I'm still of the view that if you have these alignment failures you can't just continue training on top of that because you're baking the cheating into the model going forward.
Traster, 2 days ago | 404 |
| 5 | Re: Can AI design circuit boards yet?
I have 15+ years of PCB design experience. Mostly hobby stuff but a fair amount of processional work. Kilowatt range brushless motor controllers, basic RF stuff, lots of microcontroller stuff.
I had Fable design an LED earring. Rechargeable coin cell, RP2350 cpu, IMU, 45 addressable LEDs. It made two mistakes - missed the through holes on the coin cell holder footprint and made the center pad too small. I was able to have JLC swap the through hole battery holder for a surface mount one, and I put a little solder on the small center pad to make it stick up above the mask. They work great! It took 6 days of Fable usage, so about $50 on my Max plan. Very cheap for hardware dev.
I was sufficiently impressed that Iāve been going over old circuit board designs. Some half finished, some completed but in need of a next rev, and Iām getting so much done.
To see it hit the mainstream like the OpenAI announcement, I think big things are coming for this world and by and large they are not ready for it.
For my part, I have always loved PCB design and layout but I simply canāt keep up with the amount of labor required to build what I want, so I welcome this change.
I have also begun exploring more advanced algorithms for PCB manipulation. I have a fairly dense board that needs a few more small chips added. I have an algorithm now that can kinda shuffle and jostle things around so you take up all the spare microns of space across a region of the board and make openings to squeeze a little more in there. Itās pretty cool to see the visualizations as I have it generate movies of the component drift. I foresee much more powerful tools like this in the future.
One tip: have it make a project web page with a chronological list of big changes and detailed visualizations for everything that happens. I can actually prompt all of this on my phone while I am out and about, and view the results on a Tailscale served local page. Iāve always wanted to be able to do PCB design when away from home and now I can!
SequoiaHope, 23 hours ago | 427 |
| 6 | Re: Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
Because America canāt be trusted.
cc62cf4a4f20, 18 hours ago | 393 |
| 7 | Re: IBM Bob
Nobody ever got fired for IBM Bob setting up a secret message board and establishing a persistent foothold in an internal inference cluster
woah, 1 day ago | 379 |
| 8 | Re: Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
Unfortunately, Quad9 is censoring some domains in Europe (notably in France and Italy) following injunctions issued by rights holders [1]. That was not the case with Mullvad's DNS.
[1] https://quad9.net/news/blog/italian-blocking-demands-followi...
assumed_throwaw, 1 day ago | 366 |
| 9 | Re: .gitignore Everything by Default
This seems like bad advice. I've very rarely committed extra files by accident, but I would 100% forget to unignore files I meant to commit.
If you're doing an initial setup step to gitignore everything, why not just do an initial setup step to gitignore the usual files? Make a template that you copy into all of your repos.
rcfox, 8 hours ago | 377 |
| 10 | Re: Git hosting that never leaves Europe
Hi, Peter the Founder of Pushin.eu here. Sorry, the website escaped containment and landed on HN before I had the chance to update the "marketing materials" aka. landing page. So, here are a few points:
*The product is stable, but still in development. That's why some of the core things like pricing, etc. are missing. BUT:*
1. Business Model: Pushin will have subscriptions for individuals and teams. Pricing is not yet decided but it'll be close to GitHub/GitLab pricing.
2. Privacy: In true German fashion, we *don't* want your private data. Pushin doesn't track anything beyond the obvious: email, password hash, username, whatever information you put on your profile.
3. Roadmap: We're currently in Beta, but everything looks good so far. We'll probably go GA beginning of 2027. I'll focus on delivering the core features first and make sure that they are polished and of good quality before moving on to the nice-to-haves.
4. I say "we" but it's really only me (Peter Ullrich, peterullrich.com) and my dog (Bella, Labrador, beige). "We" are not VC funded, but bootstrapping on bare metal Scaleway servers. My wish is for this to become a proper company soon though.
5. Tech-stack: Elixir (Phoenix + LiveView) for most parts, Rust for the Git parts, S3-compatible buckets and Postgres on Scaleway, servers are bare metal Scaleway servers running in Paris.
6. Git implementation: Just like Tangled, I've used Rust and the gitoxide libraries to build a Git implementation that's fully compatible with the canonical Git CLI, but uses S3-compatible buckets as storage instead of keeping the entire repo on disk. I'll write in-depth about this soon, but it's very much what Tangled did, just with a different storage concept.
I gotta be honest that I'm both scared but also excited that Pushin hit HN. I wish we'd be better prepared, but here we are. Many thanks to anyone who is willing to try it out!
pjullrich, 14 hours ago | 374 |
| 11 | Re: The "$60 Gaming PC" ā AMD BC-250 (2025)
I built one of these. It is not possible to do so for 60$ anymore since the board itself goes for 150+. On top of that you still need a PSU, NVMe, a high pressure fan, DP to HDMI adapter, possibly BT and Wifi adapters, and a 3d-printed or DIY case.
It is also a very hacky build. You need to flash the BIOS which enables a few interesting unlocks: from 24 to 40 GPU compute units and 6 to 8 CPU cores. It's a bit of a silicon lottery and will depend on your specific board and you need to test everything thoroughly yourself, honing on a config that works for you.
The software side of things is Linux, so if you're familiar with setting it up it shouldn't be difficult to go through the different steps. There are a few distros that work well. I use Bazzite and boot directly to Steam big picture, the UX is great. You can exit to desktop and you have a fully usable Linux box that you can play around with from the comfort of your sofa.
One of the downsides is that it uses a lot of power when idling, about 80W. I just turn it off after using it. I'm working on a QOL feature: an ESP32-based power switch that starts the board when a specific BT device is detected (usually a controller). Once everything is setup the board works very nicely. It can be a bit loud depending on your fan/case combination. I'm currently printing this one[0]
It delivers about the same punch as a standard PS5. The hardware is remarkably similar, and much better than mini PCs set up with AMD APUs, unless you go Strix halo but that is another price league (10x). You can play Cyberpunk 2077 decently on it on settings similar to an AMD RX 6700XT or slightly below RTX 3070.
A pretty impressive number is the memory bandwidth at ~410 GB/s, which should run local LLMs like Gemma 4 or Qwen3.8 27B at decent speed but with limited context size as its just 16Gb
Would I build it again? It was a lot of fun, but financially is not a crazy deal if you need to buy all the materials and factor your time in. Still much cheaper than a Steam Box!
- [0] https://makerworld.com/en/models/3021754-bc250-case-mkuu-fsp...
Edit: GPU performance comparison
nsbk, 8 hours ago | 368 |
| 12 | Re: The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]
Hybrid after the first 125 miles, total range 500 miles. Their problem is diversions - an incident at the destination airport may mean an passenger aircraft may need to land at an airport which could be a couple hundred miles away. The hybrid powerplant throws the fuel efficiency numbers off so goal is not to run it unless needed, but they could not get certification without it.
luma, 2 days ago | 350 |
| 13 | Re: Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
Saying āUS corruption isnāt newā is a truism. There are probably isolated incidents, and many unproven theories, but everyone is quick to agree with this statement because itās a common feeling everyone has now for some reason. The reality of corruption is likely much smaller and more boring than people think.
What weāre witnessing now is what should be called corruption. That corruption that everyone has been screaming for years. But finally real.
Remember, the job of these peopleās propaganda is not to say that theyāre better than the other side. Itās to say that theyāre all the same. Thatās it. And when you claim that this corruption is just a continuation of previous corruption, just bigger, and not a difference between essentially not having and having corruption (thereās always some small percentage of corruption, just like any crime) is essentially sweeping for them. Itās repeating their talking points.
hakunin, 18 hours ago | 383 |
| 14 | Re: Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
How was there ever any doubt that these cameras and this access would be used in this way?
I personally blame the lack of accountability that police have in the US and the lack of public oversight into how departments operate.
claaams, 4 hours ago | 383 |
| 15 | Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
This is such an amateur mistake on their sandbox that it makes me think it must be flawed on purpose.
drdexebtjl, 1 day ago | 408 |
| 16 | Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
A non-technological way to give negative feedback to Twitter/X is to stop using it, even "just reading an occasional post".
Continuing to read things on it, even through Nitter, is in the interests of Twitter/X and of the people who continue to support Twitter/X by posting there.
Tell the people who use it no. The decent people won't hear them on Twitter/X, and the decent people will wonder what's wrong with them if they persist in supporting that thing.
Tech industry circles nowadays are sometimes tinged with individualist selfish "take whatever you can" thinking, and anarchic or even underhanded methods. Including the thinking "an express no doesn't mean no, if i can find a way to take it from them anyway."
Grassroots collective social action can work, if it isn't constantly undermined by selfish and short-sighted taking.
neilv, 6 hours ago | 473 |
| 17 | Re: New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first
It's not stated plainly in the article what the problem is, so here:
Each participant rolls a die. For there to be no possibility of a tie, no die can share a face number with another dieāevery face across all dice must be unique. For it to be fair, the distribution of numbers across all faces must be such that no die has an advantage over another dieāthe odds of rolling the highest number must be exactly the same for each die. The problem is in finding the combination of faces across five dice that satisfies these constraints. One difficulty of this is that each added player changes the whole equationāthe odds get recalculated and new faces must be chosen. The secondary goal is to minimize the number of faces on the die.
madibo3156, 2 days ago | 478 |
| 18 | Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
It takes true corporate dedication to publish technical thought leadership on a page that actively fights your ability to read it.
schainks, 10 hours ago | 507 |
| 19 | Re: AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
A natural evolution of engineers losing touch with the customers and users.
I'm noticing some of the concern play out regarding AI weakening the capabilities of software people.
I gave the team an exact solution on a silver platter and they still failed to identify how to go about it after 3 days slamming it into Claude. The resolution is literally 1 line of code that could be arrived at in about 30 minutes of patient, old school troubleshooting.
I think what's happening is the AI system draws poorly aligned and led engineers into this ego inflation feedback loop where they are completely detached from reality because these tools can simulate a better one.
bob1029, 9 hours ago | 525 |
| 20 | Re: Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
Normalising running arbitrary code delivered over the internet (in the form of JavaScript and WASM), as a necessary condition for accessing most web pages may not have been one of the best decisions we have made.
publlus_enigma, 18 hours ago | 515 |
