Year: 2026

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk – dfdx labs

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk – dfdx labs

πŸš€ Check out this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: The finished setup in action: setting up a chessboard via teleoperation. Visible are the different camera feeds, the human operator, and the sensed robot state; the operator can switch between cameras. Robotics research has become cheap and accessible enough that small teams, and even individuals, can now do meaningful research on real hardware. There are two reasons for this. First, capable robot hardware has become dramatically more affordable: the physical setup below uses an industrial-grade arm, two cameras, and a full teleoperation setup while…
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The smartphone era has created an attention crisis, but slow technology is fixing it

The smartphone era has created an attention crisis, but slow technology is fixing it

πŸ’₯ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: AI,Hardware,austin murray,iPod,joy howard,screen time,slowtech,social media,Tony Fadell πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: When Tony Fadel entered the 28th Street subway station in New York City, he did not expect to come face to face with an advertisement for a product he designed more than 20 years ago. But there it was: a five-by-four-foot poster promoting the iPod Shuffle, luring passersby with the promise of β€œzero screen time.” "The first thing was, I think, 'Wait a minute, did someone change the ad?'" Fadel, known as the father of the iPod, told TechCrunch. β€œFor…
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Let’s Encrypt Community Support

Let’s Encrypt Community Support

πŸ’₯ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Welcome to Let's Encrypt Community Support 1 88793 August 7, 2015 Unable to activate using HTTP 4 196 June 19, 2026 EudaCertMgr - ACME client + selfsigned distribution solution 8 213 June 19, 2026 Nginx server sending wrong intermediate chain 14 145 June 18, 2026 Incomplete Certificate Chain (YE2 Intermediate CA) on Sophos Firewall Let's Encrypt Certificates 2 176 June 17, 2026 Chain validation issues with YE/YR under Linux distributions 11 1115 June 17, 2026 SSL Issue for Controller 4 68 June 17, 2026 Certificate…
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The new Mivo app takes a thoughtful approach to managing screen time

The new Mivo app takes a thoughtful approach to managing screen time

πŸ’₯ Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Apps,doomscrolling,iOS app,mindfulness,screen time,screen time management πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: Scrolling on social media is a very common problem and it can feel like an endless loop of constantly losing time. Instead of tackling this issue with strict limits, a new screen time app called Mivo Scrolling is trying to change things up. Mivo launched last month, and it doesn't look much different from other screen time apps. It tracks screen time and usage patterns, and provides insight into daily habits. However, Mivo believes what sets its app apart from…
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Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

πŸš€ Read this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette 18th June 2026 Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps, with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what, but I’m going to expand on that a little bit here to provide the why. The TL;DR Datasette Apps are self-contained HTML+JavaScript applications that run in a tightly constrained sandbox hosted on your Datasette application. They can use JavaScript to run read-only SQL queries against data in Datasette, and can…
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Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its own AI chips

Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its own AI chips

πŸš€ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: AI,Enterprise,AI chips,Amazon,AWS,nvidia,trainium πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: If Amazon Web Services succeeds in its goal, the cloud giant will penetrate deeper into Nvidia's market, in what could be one of the biggest challenges to Nvidia's AI chip dominance we've seen yet. Peter DeSantis, Amazon's head of AI, told Bloomberg that AWS is in talks to sell its Trainium AI chip to other companies for use in data centers. DeSantis declined to identify companies that could be buyers of these chips. The company tells TechCrunch that such talk about selling chips is…
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The Most Powerful Open-Weight Model Yet β€” and the Brutal Reality of Running It Locally

The Most Powerful Open-Weight Model Yet β€” and the Brutal Reality of Running It Locally

πŸš€ Read this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: Every few weeks the "best open model" crown changes hands. This week it's GLM-5.2, from the Chinese lab Z.ai β€” and unusually, the claim has teeth: it sits at #1 on the independent Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It's also MIT-licensed, has a million-token context, and ships with a genuinely clever architecture trick. So should you download it? That's where this gets interesting β€” because the full weights are 1.51Β TB, and "run it locally" means something very specific here. We haven't run it ourselves; what follows…
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Telegram’s ban in India has sparked a rush towards VPNs and competing apps

Telegram’s ban in India has sparked a rush towards VPNs and competing apps

πŸš€ Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Apps,Government & Policy,Exclusive,Telegram,Telegram ban,India ban πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: With India cutting off access to messaging app Telegram for a week over concerns about exam-related fraud, users have turned to virtual private networks (VPNs) and alternative messaging apps in unusually large numbers. Tuesday, the day India announced it was restricting Telegram, marked the biggest day for VPN app downloads in the country since at least the start of 2025, app intelligence firm Appfigures told TechCrunch. Downloads of major VPN apps rose 49% from a recent daily average of 139,000 to…
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Migrating from GNU stow to chezmoi

Migrating from GNU stow to chezmoi

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: I’ve been managing my dotfiles with GNU stow for a few years. I even wrote a piece with a corny title about that setup back in 2023. Stow served me well, but managing symlinks across multiple devices slowly became a pain in the butt.So I started looking around for a better tool and even considered writing my own. Then a colleague pointed me to chezmoi , and so far I’m liking it a lot. It does everything I need, and I’ve started tracking my agent…
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Source: Elastic has agreed to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85 million

Source: Elastic has agreed to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85 million

πŸ’₯ Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: AI,Enterprise,Startups,CRV,Exclusive,Elastic,observability,DeductiveAI,AI SRE πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: DeductiveAI, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to detect and fix software bugs, has agreed to be sold to enterprise software company Elastic for up to $85 million, according to a person familiar with the deal. Deductive, which was founded in 2023, made a stealth exit last November when it announced a $7.5 million seed round led by CRV with participation from Databricks Ventures, Thomvest Ventures and PrimeSet. The investment valued the startup at $33 million, according to PitchBook. Resilience and Conclusion did…
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