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The Biggest Winners of China’s World Humanoid Robot Games

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-16 06:35:46

China just hosted the first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games—basically the Olympics, but for robots. The three-day event kicked off Thursday, August 14, inside Beijing’s 12,000-seat National Speed Skating Oval, a venue originally built for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Over 200 teams from 16 countries including Japan, Brazil, Germany, and the U.S., competed across 26 competitions. The contests ranged from classic track-and-field events and gymnastics to kickboxing, soccer, medicine sorting, and even

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Picking a Spot for NASA’s Lunar Nuclear Reactor Is Trickier Than It Sounds

gizmodo.com Clive Neal 2025-12-16 06:36:22

In a bold, strategic move for the U.S., acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announced plans on Aug. 5, 2025, to build a nuclear fission reactor for deployment on the lunar surface in 2030. Doing so would allow the United States to gain a foothold on the Moon by the time China plans to land the first taikonaut, what China calls its astronauts, there by 2030. Apart from the geopolitical importance, there are other reasons why this move is critically important. A source of nuclear energy will be

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The circular economy could make demolition a thing of the past

news.ycombinator.com José Manuel Cabrero 2025-12-16 20:42:31

Most of us are already quite comfortable recycling our household waste. In Spain, for instance, millions of tonnes of packaging are processed every year, but did you know that buildings and their materials can also be recycled, or that an entire building could be completely dismantled and reassembled? Formula 1, often a laboratory for innovation, offers us a real-world example of this in the form of the Red Bull team’s “pit box”, known as the F1Holzhaus – literally, “the wooden house”. It made

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LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare

news.ycombinator.com Gary Marcus 2025-12-16 20:04:34

Last October, I wrote an essay called “When it comes to security, LLMs are like Swiss cheese — and that’s going to cause huge problems” warning that “The more people use LLMs, the more trouble we are going to be in”. Until last week, when I went to Black Hat Las Vegas, I had no earthly idea how serious the problems were. There, I got to know Nathan Hamiel, a Senior Director of Research at Kudelski Security and the AI, ML, and Data Science track lead for Black Hat, and also sat in on a talk by tw

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LLMs and Coding Agents = Security Nightmare

news.ycombinator.com Gary Marcus 2025-12-17 08:04:34

Last October, I wrote an essay called “When it comes to security, LLMs are like Swiss cheese — and that’s going to cause huge problems” warning that “The more people use LLMs, the more trouble we are going to be in”. Until last week, when I went to Black Hat Las Vegas, I had no earthly idea how serious the problems were. There, I got to know Nathan Hamiel, a Senior Director of Research at Kudelski Security and the AI, ML, and Data Science track lead for Black Hat, and also sat in on a talk by tw

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Ars Technica System Guide: Four sample PC builds, from $500 to $5,000

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-17 08:00:25

Sometimes I go longer than I intend without writing an updated version of our PC building guide. And while I could just claim to be too busy to spend hours on Newegg or Amazon or other sites digging through dozens of near-identical parts, the lack of updates usually correlates with "times when building a desktop PC is actually a pain in the ass." Through most of 2025, fluctuating and inflated graphics card pricing and limited availability have once again conspired to make a normally fun hobby a

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Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 23:29:55

‍ “Men would rather pop Viagra forever than let a leech near their body,” Dr. Andrei Dokukin says with only a hint of hyperbole. From his Long Beach, California, clinic, Dokukin is one of the only medical doctors in America practicing leech therapy (also known as hirudotherapy) for internal medicine and non-surgical conditions. While his clients are treated for chronic pain, arthritis, and circulatory issues, rather than erectile dysfunction, Dokukin notes that ED could, in fact, be successfull

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We Hit 100% GPU Utilization–and Then Made It 3× Faster by Not Using It

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 10:31:05

We recently used Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B to embed millions of text documents while sustaining near-100% GPU utilization the whole way. That’s usually the gold standard that machine learning engineers aim for… but here’s the twist: in the time it took to write this blog post, we found a way to make the same workload 3× faster, and it didn’t involve maxing out GPU utilization at all. That story’s for another post, but first, here’s the recipe that got us to near-100%. The workload Here at the Daft

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Watch Figure 02 Humanoid Fold Laundry in New AI Demo

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 22:00:00

When the newest demo of the Figure 02 humanoid robot folding towels dropped, I knew I had to make a video about it. CNET's robot coverage always gets comments from viewers asking if robots could do their laundry. In the demo, Figure 02 folds towels at a rate of approximately 22 seconds per towel. Figure With advancements in AI and robotics, the dream of automated household chores feels closer, but it's not quite here yet. I tested my laundry-folding skills against Figure 02's robot to see just

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Roblox cracks down on its user-created content following multiple child safety lawsuits

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 14:34:52

Following a wave of lawsuits alleging that Roblox doesn't provide a safe environment for its underage users, the gaming platform made a series of sweeping updates to its policies. To address recent concerns, Roblox published a post on its website detailing these major changes, including restricting all unrated experiences, which is what Roblox calls its user-generated games, to the developer or those actively working with them. Roblox said this change will roll out in the coming months, represen

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Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 17:04:29

Dev Compass Discover your programming philosophy through this compass that maps your preferences along two key dimensions: Abstract Style ↔ Concrete Style and Easy for Humans ↕ Easy for Computers. Answer 20 questions about your coding preferences and see where you fall on the developer compass.

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Trump's Anti-Science Agenda Is Massively Hampering His Plans for AI, Experts Warn

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-16 12:00:44

President Donald Trump's cost-cutting measures to decrease the federal budget have already been backfiring. Federal workers are being fired and rehired. Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency has been deemed an utter failure as well. And now, the United States' lead in AI technologies and Trump's own policy proposal to boost AI are under threat due to Trump's anti-science agenda, The Guardian reports. Last month, the Trump administration released its "AI Action Plan," a poli

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How a mysterious particle could explain the Universe’s missing antimatter

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-16 10:15:17

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current theories, matter and its counterpart, antimatter, ought to have been created in equal amounts at the time of the Big Bang. But antimatter is vanishingly rare in the universe. So what happened? Physicists don’t know the answer to that question yet, but many think the solution must involve some subtle dif

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PuTTY has a new website

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 12:35:06

PuTTY landing page PuTTY is a free software SSH client for Windows and also Unix, including an xterm -style terminal emulator. It is written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham. Go straight to the download page for the latest version, or to the main website.

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IEEE Computer Society Announces Recipients of Inaugural Career Catalyst Scholarship

computer.org Joshua Roller 2025-12-16 23:00:55

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 15 August 2025 – The IEEE Computer Society (CS) is pleased to announce the first recipients of its inaugural Career Catalyst Scholarships. Evaluated by a set of criteria that includes academic performance; technical skills and experience; leadership and extracurriculars; statement of purpose; industry readiness and professionalism; and letters of recommendation, each candidate underwent a rigorous review by a panel of industry judges. Selected from a pool of over 105 applic

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Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude code for embedded software

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 12:38:05

Hey HN - We’re Bob and Ethan from Embedder ( https://embedder.dev ), a hardware-aware AI coding agent that can write firmware and test it on physical hardware. Here’s a demo in which we integrate a magnetometer for the Pebble 2 smartwatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOpAfeiFQkQ We were frustrated by the gap between coding agents and the realities of writing firmware. We'd ask Cursor to, say, write an I2C driver for a new sensor on an STM32, and it would confidently spit out code that used

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Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude Code for Embedded Software

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 00:38:05

Hey HN - We’re Bob and Ethan from Embedder ( https://embedder.dev ), a hardware-aware AI coding agent that can write firmware and test it on physical hardware. Here’s a demo in which we integrate a magnetometer for the Pebble 2 smartwatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOpAfeiFQkQ We were frustrated by the gap between coding agents and the realities of writing firmware. We'd ask Cursor to, say, write an I2C driver for a new sensor on an STM32, and it would confidently spit out code that used

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DINOv3

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 17:02:46

🆕 [2025-08-14] 🔥 DINOv3 backbones are now available in Hugging Face Hub and supported by the Hugging Face Transformers library DINOv3 🦖🦖🦖 Meta AI Research, FAIR Oriane Siméoni, Huy V. Vo, Maximilian Seitzer, Federico Baldassarre, Maxime Oquab, Cijo Jose, Vasil Khalidov, Marc Szafraniec, Seungeun Yi, Michaël Ramamonjisoa, Francisco Massa, Daniel Haziza, Luca Wehrstedt, Jianyuan Wang, Timothée Darcet, Théo Moutakanni, Leonel Sentana, Claire Roberts, Andrea Vedaldi, Jamie Tolan, John Brandt,

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GPT-5 brings big improvements to Mac vibe coding

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-18 06:00:35

My former colleague Parker Ortolani has been experimenting with “vibe coding” for months, building native and web apps by steering large language models with carefully crafted prompts. GPT-4o and Claude helped him get functional prototypes running, but GPT-5 is the first model that delivers the complete experience he’s been waiting for. Here’s how GPT-5 improves on earlier models: What makes GPT-5 better for vibe coding Parker says it plainly in his blog post: “The good news is that GPT-5 is

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Axle (YC S22) is hiring product engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 14:00:30

We are looking for talented engineers to join our team as early members. As a Product Engineer, you’ll help build the platform that makes this possible. From structuring and cleaning complex data to using LLMs for automated data extraction, you’ll have the chance to wear a lot of hats and shape the future of our platform. We’re looking for individuals who think creatively about problems, push for real-world customer impact, and are excited about helping financial data reach full connectivity.

Topics: building complex data high team

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Former Hospital Worker Allegedly Stole Skin Grafts in California

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-20 14:50:51

A man in Southern California has been arrested for allegedly stealing from three area hospitals. But the things he stole weren’t your run-of-the-mill items. The man made off with about $300,000 in surgical equipment and skin grafts, according to the Mercury News. Jason Brauner, a 47-year-old man from San Jacinto, California, allegedly posed as a hospital employee to pilfer the highly unusual property. The Riverside County Sheriff said in a press release that Brauner was arrested on Aug. 6 and c

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Axle (YC S22) Is Hiring Product Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 20:00:30

We are looking for talented engineers to join our team as early members. As a Product Engineer, you’ll help build the platform that makes this possible. From structuring and cleaning complex data to using LLMs for automated data extraction, you’ll have the chance to wear a lot of hats and shape the future of our platform. We’re looking for individuals who think creatively about problems, push for real-world customer impact, and are excited about helping financial data reach full connectivity.

Topics: building complex data high team

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Mbodi AI (YC X25) Is Hiring a Founding Research Engineer (Robotics)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 20:00:53

Description: Join Mbodi AI (YC X25), an AI robotics startup founded by two former Googlers committed to pushing the boundaries of intelligent robots. Mbodi is an embodied AI platform that makes robots learn like humans, with natural language. So anyone can teach robots new skills by talking to them and execute the learned skills reliably in production, in minutes. We are pioneering the next wave of robotics, where advanced generative models meet real-world applications. Backed by top investors

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New Study Shows Smartwatch Stress Sensors Have No Idea What They're Doing

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-23 04:53:28

You might want to think twice before you put a lot of stock in the latest stress charts from your fitness wearable. A recent study from the Netherlands' Leiden University, published in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, has found that when smartwatches and similar devices record readings on stress, fatigue or sleep, they're frequently getting it wrong. Researchers studied 800 young adults using the same Garmin Vivosmart 4 smartwatch model. They compared the data the smartwatch

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iPhone 17 Pro Will Reportedly Get Higher Price Tag, But Also More Storage

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-23 18:59:42

The price of an iPhone Pro has been $999 since 2019, but a new leak appears to corroborate what has been rumored before -- that the price is going up. The iPhone 17 Pro, set to launch in September, reportedly will be priced $50 more at $1,050 in the US before taxes, according to Chinese leaker Instant Digital. The model will also reportedly get a storage boost from the Pro's usual 128GB to 256GB. For context, if you were to bump up to 256GB on the iPhone 16 Pro, that would cost you $100 and bri

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LinkedIn’s Mini Sudoku is a clever twist on the classic puzzle

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-23 18:59:20

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. I love sudoku, so I just couldn’t resist checking out LinkedIn’s new Mini Sudoku game that it launched this week. Two puzzles in, I can already tell you that I like it a lot. The rules in Mini Sudoku are quite similar to regular sudoku: you need to fill in all of the blank spots of a puzzle with a number, but a number can’t repeat in a line, row, or box. But the twist with Mi

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What are Apple’s options for an AI acquisition beyond Perplexity?

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-25 15:26:30

Since Apple’s latest earnings call, talk of a potential Perplexity acquisition has quieted down (the fact that Perplexity was once again allegedly caught red-handed sidestepping content restrictions didn’t help). Meanwhile, with the ever-increasing number of engineers from its Foundation Models team jumping ship, Apple’s need for fresh talent is getting more urgent by the day. But if Perplexity is a no-go, who else could Apple buy? I used to agree with Jason Snell’s frequent argument on the Up

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Anthropic just made its latest move in the AI coding wars

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-12-26 05:10:33

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The AI coding wars are heating up. One of the main battlegrounds? “Context windows,” or an AI model’s working memory — the amount of text it can take into account when it’s coming up with an answer. On that front, Anthropic just gained some

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Claude can now process entire software projects in single request, Anthropic says

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-26 15:00:03

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Anthropic announced Tuesday that its Claude Sonnet 4 artificial intelligence model can now process up to 1 million tokens of context in a single request — a fivefold increase that allows developers to analyze entire software projects or dozens of research papers without breaking them into smaller chunks. The expansion, available now in pub

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Are Gesture-Enabled AirPod Live Translations Incoming? iOS 26 Beta Suggests Yes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 14:56:00

Some models of Apple's popular AirPods may soon be able to do live, in-person language translations when you squeeze both stems at the same time. According to an image posted by websites including 9to5Mac, the touch gesture is featured in a system asset that's part of Apple iOS 26 developer beta 6. In the image, the gesture is shown on a pair of AirPods with words in languages including English, Spanish, German, French and Portuguese. In June, Apple showed off AI-powered live translations featu

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The Biggest Winners of China’s World Humanoid Robot Games

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DINOv3

GPT-5 brings big improvements to Mac vibe coding

Axle (YC S22) is hiring product engineers

Former Hospital Worker Allegedly Stole Skin Grafts in California

Axle (YC S22) Is Hiring Product Engineers

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Anthropic just made its latest move in the AI coding wars

Claude can now process entire software projects in single request, Anthropic says

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