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Hacking a Casio F91W digital watch (Bluetooth and OLED display)
Show HN: Sneakily steer candidates toward naive brute-force solutions
I've noticed that several startups have been switching from leetcode-style assessments to some version of "clone starter code, build feature, submit code".A key issue with this seems to be that smarter AI models (like Opus 4.6) end up spoiling key insights of the problem by helping them too much with system design and ideation.I set up an assessment platform which basically serves as a...
Re:Flipper One Tech Specs
on Thursday May 21, 2026 @02:14PM (#48226851)
Re:Flipper One Tech Specs
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @04:42PM (#48213826)
It's about time someone rolled out a watch that has these capabilities.
Show HN: StrudelBot – 3D printed humanoid robotic hand with teleoperation glove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9rqOqkuWdw
I built this for fun a while back as a side project. I ended up applying to YC with it and got an interview, but didn't get funded.I tried to cold email several robotics systems integrator companies, but I had trouble finding a way to monetize it and ended up pivoting.The original idea was to use this as a testbed to refine sim2real transfer and robot RL policies.I assembled the hand from this...
Re:Anthropic acquires Stainless
on Monday May 18, 2026 @02:09PM (#48183253)
Does anyone have a good guess as to the strategic reasoning behind this?
I know that common reasons for acquisitions are IP, talent, or reducing competition.
It seems like IP can't be the reason here. How is this strategically advantageous to Anthropic?
Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
on Sunday May 17, 2026 @06:12PM (#48173638)
the proof is left as an exercise for the reader
Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
on Sunday May 17, 2026 @11:25AM (#48169769)
Thank you for trying to help address the bot problem, but this is a false positive.
Show HN: Gonfire – Assess how well candidates steer AI coding agents
When I graduated from a CS program in 2020, leetcode was basically a SWE entrance exam. Your ability to solve a coding puzzle thrown at you on the spot determined your fate.Recently, I’ve interviewed for a handful of “AI Engineer” positions at several startups and I noticed a shift in the format of technical assessments. Timed OAs and live leetcoding have been replaced with a “case study”...
Re:Waymo driverless cars become trapped in Atlanta suburb after glitch...
on Friday May 15, 2026 @07:54PM (#48155443)
I wonder what would cause this to all happen at a single location. If it's a "routing issue" like they said, it wouldn't make sense for all the cars to get stuck in a single spot like that.
I wonder if the radial symmetry and small radius of the cul-de-sac poses a challenge for GPS and lidar localization.
Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
on Friday May 15, 2026 @07:43PM (#48155368)
I'm curious how to best define what AI psychosis actually is.
My understanding is that regular psychosis involves someone taking bits and pieces of facts or real world events and chaining them into a logical order or interpolating meanings or explanations which feel real and obvious to the patient but are not sufficiently backed by evidence and thus not in line with our widely accepted understanding of reality.
AI psychosis is then this same phenomenon occurring at a more widespread scale due to the next-word-prediction nature of LLMs facilitating this by lowering the activation energy for this to happen. LLMs are excellent at taking any idea, question, theory and spinning a linear and plausibly coherent line of conversation from it.