Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development research project?

Re:Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development... by RubenSandwich on Thursday June 22, 2017 @09:10AM (#14611949)

They are still their slowly plugging away at projects: https://harc.ycr.org/.

Edit: You haven't heard from them because they are aiming very high so it will take years before any of their work hits the general public.

Edit 2: From my understanding, they are still working on their Universal Basic Income Research as well and have chosen Oakland as the testbed: http://basicincome.org/news/2017/04/httpswww-youtube-comwatc....

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Re:Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development... by baybal2 on Thursday June 22, 2017 @01:53PM (#14614013)

Do you have any contact with them?

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Re:Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development... by RubenSandwich on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:22PM (#14616748)

Nope. I just follow Bret Victor, who is in Y Combinator Research, very closely.

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Re:Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development... by forgotpwtomain on Thursday June 22, 2017 @09:19AM (#14611996)

I remember last time I looked at their projects page it was very underwhelming. Doesn't seem like that has changed.

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Re:Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development... by RubenSandwich on Thursday June 22, 2017 @11:49AM (#14613067)

These things take time. Good original research does not work in the same timeframe as front end frameworks.

Edit: I feel a bit bad about this joke. I know that Front End Frameworks take time too. For example React wasn't deployed internally in Facebook till 2011 and that was after two years of research and development on it. Then it was open sourced in 2013, so that's like 4 years of development before it was ready for public use. But jokes depend on culture and the culture of HN is: "Front End frameworks: lol".

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