Shalomboy

I wish that weren't the only way to speak with you face-to-face. You're my favorite comment-writer on HN.

> New trucks optioned out cost $80k+ and plenty of people pay for that without having much justification of any kind for it.

In the US, certain purchase categories make taking on debt to cover upfront costs trivially easy. Open robotics platforms are not one of those categories, while automobiles are.

Oh no, John Apple has committed the classic IoT blunder of building the Facebook Portal.

That's good! However, there are bigger fish to fry here than tsk-tsking HN's commentariat. ICE is making allllllll sorts of lists based on skin color.

I don't think that's true.

Nate Silver hasn't look great in ages. I'd put him up against Ed.

I've chosen to believe that the author perished in front of their keyboard as soon as they embedded the YouTube link; their body must have slumped forward at precisely the angle needed to bump their head into their mouse until the left-click button collided with a book and clicked the 'publish' button.

How else could you explain writing, like, half of an essay puffing up a fellow blogger without actually making the case for why you like him?

Because the central limitation is still mass; a friction-fit frame light enough to sit on your face all day without fatigue is the market expectation for eyewear, and devices generally require parts which weigh more than glasses.

Cubozoa are ripe for study if you're curious about primitive vision and its applications. They are notoriously venomous, so handle with care, but if we can trust undergrads with caring for them in the lab I trust the average tinkerer can work out how to not get stung. This guy seems like he's got the right stuff.

We should really make a better shopify already; these guys aren't worth the salt they stand upon.

This is an exceptionally good work of fiction.

My greatest fear is that every maintainer living a life like this decides to give up.

I mean, I wouldn't want to have to bulk-purchase a large number of well-spec'ed laptops in this market. But you aren't wrong.

How could Chapo do this? /s

I would assume that all sorts of proteins would clear out of the brain in cases of prolonged oxygen depletion.

Why would Android Authority review any smartwatch on an iOS Device? It seems outside of their interests.

I disagree with the super limited warranty terms and the lack of charger for the Index 01, but I am happy to give Eric and the Pebble Team a pass this time while their company is in this stage. I really hope they adopt stronger pro-consumer practices as the company finds its footing, but if they don't the good thing about their watches is how durable they are. I kept my Pebble Time on wrist through 2023, and by then I only stopped because I got sick of trying to repair the adhesive connecting the front bezel(?) to the back case. The PT2 is already a marked improvement over that watch's build quality so I figure I'll be good for at least eight years of daily use.

Its so good having Pebble back in action though.

OP's interview with the F1 team sounds super cool, I'd actually love to hear more about their experience and the vibes they got from potentially working a dev job for a sports team. I had a close encounter with the analytics department of an MLB Team not too long ago and found that pocket of the tech world beyond fascinating. I just wish I had more exposure to the folks working in it.

I came to the comments to say the same thing! I would love to take a seminar or a class from the folks in their design department.

I've wanted to write something similar regarding anxiety on a blog of my own for close to a decade now, but I was always afraid to put my feelings to paper, in case they become real. If they stay in my head, I can dismiss them. OP, I hope you feel some relief having posted this; if it helped you, perhaps it could encourage other to let down their walls.

Thank you so much for sharing.

I think it ought to be said here in the comments that magazine's front page is anathema to the ideals of the comment section of HN, and whoever is funding these blowhards clearly doesn't share our ideals. Proceed with caution.

Pioneering was my favorite merit badge in scouting, and it was the only place I was exposed to the engineering discipline of knots before discovering them again as a college student.

Truthfully, this sounds like you're showing folks the magic code to get inside various arcade claw machine games.

I love the Autopian, glad they're on the HN front page. David Tracy's Jeep antics have kept me up at night worrying for at least 10 years now.

you would love https://www.windy.com

https://cardcluster.com/install - I gotta check my links better!

I think I could have bolstered this point by claiming "Windows and DirectX are losing ground", but I stand by my argument that Microsoft's gatekeeper status is eroding thanks to the growth [1] of Proton and Vulkan. Now native Vulkan implementations are not growing the way Proton is, but one could argue that Valve has done more to grow Vulkan support than Google's Stadia team ever did by removing the onus to write for it from game developers. Either way you slice it, Microsoft is now competing with Valve for OS installs. _____________

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-May-2026]

Valve does make its own DRM, and they could certainly find reason to improve its efficacy and roll back their current policy without upsetting the applecart

Valve is in a funny position now. They lived long enough to see every one of Sony and XBOX's moats dry up by being pro-consumer where possible, but with Steam as the leader of a fungible game distribution market it may no longer make good business sense to continue to act so benevolently.

We've reached a sort of gaming singularity where nearly every video game can be run on any hardware you choose or be streamed over the network to a thin client. PlayStation and XBOX consoles are basically dedicated gaming PCs that can only run Sony or Microsoft's version of Steam. DirectX is losing ground too thanks to Proton and Vulkan, so Microsoft won't have the last laugh there either. If Valve controls the store you purchase games from, the software which runs the games, and the operating system running the software, they are an ODM contract away from becoming Sony's PlayStation division, and look where they are now.

I can appreciate the author's perspective, but in my experience the magic of bringing the online world offline gave our product (https://ww.cardcluster.com/install - duelists, give it a try!) a significant amount of stickiness compared to other similar services. But it should be noted that we built our product with service workers in mind from the beginning; trying to retrofit service workers into a mature application with paying customers and all sounds extremely tricky.