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When Robots Have Their ChatGPT Moment, Remember These Pincers

From sorting chicken nuggets to screwing in light bulbs, Eka’s robots are eerily lifelike. But do they have real physical smarts?

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Technology Apr 29, 2026

Coby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100 million to train its models for war. We visited its bootcamp.

We visited Scout AI's training ground where it's working on AI agents that give individual soldiers control of fleets o...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

The Justice Department Has Destroyed Its Voting Rights Section

There were around 30 attorneys in the DOJ’s Voting Section on the day of Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Three m...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

Article URL: https://rip.so Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945955 Points: 5 # Comments: 3

Technology Apr 29, 2026

General Motors is adding Gemini to four million cars

General Motors is planning to bring Google's Gemini AI assistant to around four million vehicles across the US. Model ye...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

Article URL: https://www.nldigitalgovernment.nl/news/soft-launch-for-government-open-source-code-platform/ Comments URL...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Why Law Is Law-Shaped

Article URL: https://lawvm.org/why-law-is-law-shaped/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945861 Point...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Vari Align Desk Chair Review (2026): Breathable, Comfy, Low Cost

The comfortable new office chair from standing-desk pioneer Vari strikes a delicate balance between support and simplici...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

How AI Could Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance

At WIRED Health, British surgeon Ara Darzi said AI is set to transform the diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant inf...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team

Received by email tonight about two hours ago:Dear Tindie Community,My name is Gongyu Su, and I am writing on behalf of...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Digital-Sovereignty-Wire-to-Replace-Signal-as-Standard-in-the-Bundestag-11275...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Low-Compilation-Cost Register Allocation in LLVM-Based Binary Translation

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3767295.3803591 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4794...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

Article URL: https://www.newsweek.com/germany-overtakes-us-in-ammunition-production-capacity-11886409 Comments URL: htt...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

Article URL: https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2026-04-26/hardenedbsd-officially-radicle Comments URL: https:/...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

How one venture firm is investing in an increasingly fragmented world

Geopolitical turmoil has made venture investing challenging, leading Kompas VC to carve out a niche in startups focused ...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Bugs Rust Won't Catch

Article URL: https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943499...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

When the Internet Was a Place

Article URL: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/09/when-the-internet-was-a-place/ Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Fuck Off AI Music

Article URL: http://fuckoffaimusic.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942952 Points: 5 # Comment...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

We decreased our LLM costs with Opus

Article URL: https://www.mendral.com/blog/frontier-model-lower-costs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship

It's a story Musk has told before -- in interviews and to author Walter Isaacson for his bestselling biography of Musk -...

Technology Apr 28, 2026

Claude system prompt bug wastes user money and bricks managed agents

Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/49363 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Apr 28, 2026

ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop

Article URL: https://www.buchodi.com/how-chatgpt-serves-ads-heres-the-full-attribution-loop/ Comments URL: https://news...

Technology Apr 28, 2026

Claude for Creative Work

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-creative-work Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Apr 28, 2026

OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins

“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is abso...

Technology Apr 28, 2026

Apple CMF (Color-Matching Functions) 2026

Article URL: https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/04/11/apple-studio-display-xdr-display-testing-results Comments URL:...

Technology Apr 28, 2026

It’s primetime for conspiracy theorist video creators

In the days since this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner was cut short when shots were fired at the event, there...

Technology Apr 28, 2026

Elon Musk appeared more petty than prepared

Today the first witness was sworn in in Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk. I was surprised by how flat he seemed. This is not th...

Technology Apr 28, 2026

Anti-Trump Instagram pic of seashells now enough to indict ex-FBI directors

The clown car is all gassed up.

Technology Apr 28, 2026

Carrot Disclosure: Forgejo

Article URL: https://dustri.org/b/carrot-disclosure-forgejo.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=479...

Technology Apr 28, 2026

James Comey indicted over Instagram seashell photo that allegedly threatened Trump

The US Department of Justice has once again indicted James Comey - this time, for an alleged threat the former FBI direc...