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Re:Home and Factory Robots on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:50PM (#50075776)
Tracking which companies have robots out with customers!
Re:Filing the Corners Off MacBooks on Friday April 10, 2026 @06:43PM (#47724664)
yay
Re:Show HN: MyraOS – My 32-bit operating system in C and ASM (Hack Clu... on Monday October 27, 2025 @03:47AM (#45718344)
wow, just wow

i did something similar when i was 18. got to the point of filesystem and mouse driver.

Re:Show HN: Walk and Talk on Thursday June 08, 2023 @11:08PM (#36252628)
I saw some people
Re:Show HN: Chat to People in a Room on Sunday May 28, 2023 @06:07PM (#36108252)
thanks! yeah gotta make it better on mobile, such small screens!
Re:Show HN: I made a simple starter web app in Node.js on Sunday November 27, 2022 @01:06PM (#33765033)
Not sure how to add links: https://github.com/tjacobs/Basic-Web-App-Template

Show HN: I made a simple starter web app in Node.js

Posted by tomjacobs on Sunday November 27, 2022 @01:02PM
from the show-hn dept.

I have this problem every year or so; I want to create a web app that has the basics: a database, user sign in, runs on AWS, a templating engine, and has a small learning curve so that I don't have to learn five new skills and frameworks at the same time just to get started. But there's always a new javascript framework system to learn, always new little gotchas to get me, and always promising...

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022) on Monday May 02, 2022 @08:41PM (#31242946)
Ghost Robotics | Android developer, and other robotics positions available | Full-time | REMOTE/ONSITE, VISA | Philadelphia, PA

Ghost Robotics builds autonomous legged robots.

You may have seen our videos: https://www.ghostrobotics.io https://twitter.com/Ghost_Robotics

Our customers include more than 25+ US and allied government agencies, defense and industrial enterprises.

Location: Philadelphia, PA (remote considered, must be able to come into office one day per week on average)

Compensation: Competitive base, full benefits, and highly motivating equity incentive package.

Responsibilities:

    - Develop new features, maintain, and upgrade the Ghost Robotics controller Android java app.
    - Work on bug fixing, regression testing, and improving app performance. 
    - Gather customer feedback, document and communicate customer functional requirements. 
    - Work with colleagues to design and implement user interface support for new robot behaviors. 
    - Work with UI/UX designers to iterate on app designs, with user feedback, and implement designs.
Experience:

    - Four years minimum developing Java Android applications.
    - Bachelor’s in software, computer engineering, or similar discipline.
    - Experience developing a mobile app from early concept into production. 
    - Experience working with remote data via UDP, HTTP, REST APIs, and JSON.
Email your resume to: [email protected]
Re:Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch on Saturday January 15, 2022 @08:09PM (#29952262)
Absolutely amazing. That's a lot of work.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021) on Monday August 02, 2021 @10:34PM (#28045146)
cool
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021) on Monday August 02, 2021 @10:26PM (#28045099)
cool!
Re:Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D on Monday December 21, 2020 @09:37PM (#25502263)
Great! Nothing like a pandemic to push tech forward.

This would work well with a physical controllable positionable telepresence device as well:

http://teleportconnect.com

Move around in a shared real space together.

Re:Show HN: Drive My Robot on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @09:14AM (#25345330)
raw h264 over websockets
Re:Show HN: Drive My Robot on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @08:34AM (#25344775)
done, thanks! didn't seem to work though
Re:Show HN: Drive My Robot on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @08:30AM (#25344743)
h264 raw over websockets, js decoder
Re:Show HN: Drive My Robot on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:08AM (#25342101)
crash
Re:Show HN: Drive My Robot on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:28PM (#25341394)
No prob!
Re:Show HN: Drive My Robot on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:05PM (#25341209)
SHIFT for TURBO!
Re:Show HN: Drive My Robot on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:01PM (#25341179)
ha, that's me taking over control
Re:Show HN: Drive My Robot on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:01PM (#25341178)
any webdevs out there, love to help?

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