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• The Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel's Antichrist Obsession

  by jpm_sd on 10/1/2025, 1:18 PM with 1 comments

• The Cracker Barrel Hype(rreality)

  by jpm_sd on 9/22/2025, 9:15 PM with 20 comments

• A nuclear fusion power plant prototype is being built outside Boston

  by jpm_sd on 5/6/2025, 6:12 PM with 1 comments

• Robots are fighting robots in Russia's war in Ukraine

  by jpm_sd on 2/10/2024, 4:35 PM with 2 comments

• Look, Up in the Sky It's a Can of Soup

  by jpm_sd on 11/4/2023, 6:15 PM with 2 comments

• From Math Camp to Handcuffs

  by jpm_sd on 2/18/2023, 2:53 PM with 1 comments

• Robot Electric Cargo Plane Could Be the Start of a Wave That Transforms Shipping

  by jpm_sd on 2/3/2023, 2:29 PM with 1 comments

• Why the multiverse is the movie fantasy for our times

  by jpm_sd on 12/28/2022, 1:18 AM with 0 comments

• Musk antagonist George Hotz hired to fix Twitter search – he’s got 12 weeks

  by jpm_sd on 11/22/2022, 8:48 PM with 1 comments

• Rats with tiny backpacks could soon save the lives of earthquake survivors

  by jpm_sd on 10/26/2022, 2:41 PM with 1 comments

• California’s strawberry fields may not be forever. Could robots help?

  by jpm_sd on 8/3/2022, 5:56 PM with 1 comments

• Hands-On with Tilt Five Production AR Glasses

  by jpm_sd on 7/28/2022, 7:06 PM with 0 comments

• The Peecyclers. Their Idea to Help Farmers Is No. 1

  by jpm_sd on 6/17/2022, 7:35 PM with 2 comments

• How Rivian’s CEO became the anti-Elon

  by jpm_sd on 5/6/2022, 1:49 PM with 24 comments

• Amazon Alphabet and Others Are Quietly Rolling Out Drone Delivery Across America

  by jpm_sd on 5/3/2022, 2:34 PM with 1 comments

• “Alien Drone Swarm” Form Giant Hovering QR Code over Austin to Promote ‘Halo’

  by jpm_sd on 3/15/2022, 7:12 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Does targeted advertising work at all?

  by jpm_sd on 2/6/2022, 1:49 AM with 153 comments

• One man's quest for the most accurate clock

  by jpm_sd on 2/1/2022, 12:27 PM with 0 comments

• Psyche: NASA Mission to a Metal World

  by jpm_sd on 1/31/2022, 3:23 PM with 0 comments

• Why Googleplex Architect Says Luxury On-Site Perks Are 'Dangerous'

  by jpm_sd on 1/25/2022, 6:25 PM with 60 comments

• Former SpaceX engineers raised $50M to build a Tesla for freight trains

  by jpm_sd on 1/19/2022, 5:21 PM with 24 comments

• Tilt-5 Was Magical

  by jpm_sd on 11/23/2021, 1:15 PM with 40 comments

• A flood of unknown products is making online shopping impossible

  by jpm_sd on 10/5/2021, 10:30 PM with 10 comments

• The Costly Pursuit of Self-Driving Cars Continues On. and On. and On

  by jpm_sd on 5/31/2021, 7:11 PM with 0 comments

• by jpm_sd on 4/29/2021, 6:51 AM with comments

• The Second Coming of Star Wars

  by jpm_sd on 2/16/2021, 3:47 PM with 0 comments

• Alphabet’s Internet Balloon Subsidiary ‘Loon’ Hit Financing Turbulence

  by jpm_sd on 11/18/2020, 6:44 PM with 1 comments

• Startup Has a Plan to Build the Missing Link for Self-Driving Cars

  by jpm_sd on 10/8/2020, 5:42 PM with 1 comments

• Move Over, Sustainable Travel. Regenerative Travel Has Arrived

  by jpm_sd on 8/28/2020, 3:39 PM with 1 comments

• “The stock market is a video game that people play on their phones”

  by jpm_sd on 7/30/2020, 4:58 PM with 0 comments

• by jpm_sd on 7/28/2020, 2:30 AM with comments

• by jpm_sd on 7/18/2020, 12:37 PM with comments

• by jpm_sd on 7/13/2020, 3:21 PM with comments

• Why Robotics Companies Fail [pdf]

  by jpm_sd on 6/9/2020, 2:03 AM with 0 comments

• The Unusual Ambitions of Chamath Palihapitiya

  by jpm_sd on 6/2/2020, 5:28 PM with 0 comments

• The Relentless Startup Fast-Tracking Ford’s Self-Driving Cars

  by jpm_sd on 5/6/2020, 12:09 PM with 0 comments

• Magic Leap Starts to Auger-In with ~3.7X the Money as Theranos

  by jpm_sd on 5/4/2020, 12:37 PM with 0 comments

• Moxie, a Social Robot That Helps Kids with Social-Emotional Learning

  by jpm_sd on 4/30/2020, 2:19 PM with 53 comments

• by jpm_sd on 4/30/2020, 2:18 PM with comments

• Alphabet's internet balloons remain grounded in Kenya

  by jpm_sd on 3/12/2020, 7:04 PM with 0 comments

• Waymo's Self-Driving Jaguars Arrive with New, Homegrown Tech

  by jpm_sd on 3/4/2020, 8:55 PM with 0 comments

• Waymo and Cruise Vie for Supremacy in Murky California Self-Driving Data

  by jpm_sd on 2/27/2020, 8:29 PM with 0 comments

• NTSB chair eviscerates Tesla for inaction over Autopilot concerns

  by jpm_sd on 2/25/2020, 8:21 PM with 1 comments

• Boston Dynamics Robot Dog Goes on Patrol at Norwegian Oil Rig

  by jpm_sd on 2/25/2020, 8:03 PM with 0 comments

• A Growing Presence on the Farm: Robots

  by jpm_sd on 2/24/2020, 11:56 AM with 0 comments

• As the Startup Boom Deflates, Tech Is Humbled

  by jpm_sd on 2/24/2020, 11:50 AM with 47 comments

• Alphabet takes the wind out of its Makani energy kites

  by jpm_sd on 2/18/2020, 11:59 PM with 3 comments

• Tesla driver in fatal crash had reported problems before with Autopilot feature

  by jpm_sd on 2/12/2020, 2:19 AM with 2 comments

• The World's First Smart Potato

  by jpm_sd on 1/21/2020, 6:02 PM with 0 comments

• Alphabet's Dream of an 'Everyday Robot' Is Just Out of Reach

  by jpm_sd on 11/26/2019, 7:57 PM with 0 comments

• The Everyday Robot Project

  by jpm_sd on 11/21/2019, 7:39 PM with 0 comments

• Two-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping

  by jpm_sd on 11/13/2019, 7:45 PM with 12 comments

• Uber Money is the company’s latest attempt to expand into financial services

  by jpm_sd on 10/30/2019, 2:43 PM with 0 comments

• Technology Companies Target the Cord Cutters

  by jpm_sd on 10/24/2019, 10:43 AM with 0 comments

• The Oceans We Know Won't Survive Climate Change

  by jpm_sd on 9/25/2019, 10:09 PM with 1 comments

• by jpm_sd on 9/24/2019, 2:21 AM with comments

• by jpm_sd on 9/8/2019, 10:50 AM with comments

• How Ford Is Keeping Autonomous Car Sensors Squeaky Clean

  by jpm_sd on 9/4/2019, 4:25 PM with 0 comments

• What If Silicon Valley’s ‘Brilliant Jerks’ Are Just Jerks?

  by jpm_sd on 8/31/2019, 2:35 PM with 53 comments

• Makani’s airborne wind power system takes flight offshore

  by jpm_sd on 8/15/2019, 4:54 PM with 1 comments

• WeWork IPO Shows It's the Most Magical Unicorn

  by jpm_sd on 8/14/2019, 6:13 PM with 168 comments

• by jpm_sd on 8/14/2019, 5:41 PM with comments

• Star Wars Is Struggling to Win over the Next Generation of Kids

  by jpm_sd on 8/9/2019, 12:49 PM with 0 comments

• The Great NASA Bake-Off

  by jpm_sd on 8/4/2019, 1:10 AM with 0 comments

• by jpm_sd on 8/2/2019, 6:47 PM with comments

• What Happens When the World’s Population Stops Growing?

  by jpm_sd on 7/31/2019, 6:21 PM with 0 comments

• California Pushes Ahead with Self-Driving Vehicles

  by jpm_sd on 7/31/2019, 3:35 PM with 0 comments

• The Slackification of the American Home

  by jpm_sd on 7/12/2019, 1:30 PM with 0 comments

• Building a Passive Radar System with RTL-SDR

  by jpm_sd on 6/18/2019, 3:39 PM with 0 comments

• Aurora to acquire Blackmore, industry-leading Lidar company

  by jpm_sd on 5/23/2019, 9:05 PM with 0 comments

• Humanoid Robots Are the Wrong Answer to the Right Problem

  by jpm_sd on 4/10/2019, 10:32 PM with 0 comments

• How we get to the next big battery breakthrough

  by jpm_sd on 4/9/2019, 11:14 PM with 0 comments

• Zipline Emphasizes Safety with Delivery Drones in Preparation for US Operations

  by jpm_sd on 3/4/2019, 8:35 PM with 0 comments

• Building Robots That Can Go Where We Go

  by jpm_sd on 2/27/2019, 5:23 PM with 0 comments

• by jpm_sd on 2/27/2019, 5:21 PM with comments

• Finally, Fusion Power Is About to Become a Reality

  by jpm_sd on 1/4/2019, 6:54 PM with 8 comments

• Rivian wants to turn adventure vehicles into fully electric cars

  by jpm_sd on 11/27/2018, 8:57 PM with 0 comments

• Why Are People Fleeing Central America? A New Breed of Gangs Is Taking Over

  by jpm_sd on 11/5/2018, 5:19 PM with 0 comments

• Caltech develops world's smallest optical gyroscope

  by jpm_sd on 11/2/2018, 3:55 PM with 0 comments

• Executive accused of harassment at Alphabet 'X' unit is out

  by jpm_sd on 10/31/2018, 5:00 PM with 82 comments

• MAKERphone – an educational DIY mobile phone

  by jpm_sd on 10/19/2018, 6:01 PM with 1 comments

• Raytheon High-Energy Laser Mission Scenarios [video]

  by jpm_sd on 10/15/2018, 3:47 PM with 0 comments

• Will the Bay Area Defend Against Rising Seas, or Embrace Them?

  by jpm_sd on 9/23/2018, 4:18 PM with 0 comments

• Software ‘Robots’ Power Surging Values for Three Little-Known Startups

  by jpm_sd on 9/18/2018, 7:23 PM with 0 comments

• The undertakers of Silicon Valley: how failure became big business

  by jpm_sd on 8/29/2018, 4:33 PM with 0 comments

• The undertakers of Silicon Valley: how failure became big business

  by jpm_sd on 8/23/2018, 5:12 PM with 0 comments

• Loon and Wing graduate from Google/Alphabet X

  by jpm_sd on 7/11/2018, 4:06 PM with 57 comments

• America’s largest supermarket chain is launching a driverless delivery service

  by jpm_sd on 7/6/2018, 5:47 PM with 0 comments

• Why Don’t People Who Can’t Afford Housing Just Move Where It’s Cheaper?

  by jpm_sd on 5/15/2018, 8:51 PM with 81 comments

• 'The Three-Body Problem' could be Amazon's next global blockbuster

  by jpm_sd on 3/28/2018, 4:10 PM with 0 comments

• Uber’s Collision, Facebook’s Disgrace

  by jpm_sd on 3/26/2018, 4:26 PM with 0 comments

• Custom carpentry with help from robots

  by jpm_sd on 3/2/2018, 1:02 AM with 0 comments

• Skydio’s AI-powered autonomous R1 drone follows you around in 4K

  by jpm_sd on 2/13/2018, 6:11 PM with 0 comments

• The Things We Carry

  by jpm_sd on 12/11/2017, 5:38 PM with 50 comments

• $1000 smart teapot discontinued

  by jpm_sd on 11/3/2017, 8:00 PM with 0 comments

• Stephen Fry: “The future of humanity and technology” [video]

  by jpm_sd on 10/17/2017, 10:19 PM with 18 comments

• Actually, Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock’s massacre was highly predictable

  by jpm_sd on 10/12/2017, 4:20 PM with 0 comments

• When Working from Home Doesn’t Work

  by jpm_sd on 10/4/2017, 7:31 PM with 0 comments

• Higher markups suggest an increase in “market power”

  by jpm_sd on 8/29/2017, 7:29 PM with 0 comments

• Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars

  by jpm_sd on 8/23/2017, 4:02 PM with 134 comments

• Alphabet's Green Energy Ambitions Hit Turbulence

  by jpm_sd on 8/15/2017, 8:19 PM with 0 comments

• The Lawsuit That Could Pop Alphabet’s Project Loon Balloons

  by jpm_sd on 7/10/2017, 7:32 PM with 0 comments

• Inside the car-eat-car world of self-driving technology

  by jpm_sd on 4/10/2017, 7:08 PM with 0 comments

• Google balloon mistaken for UFO as it crashes in Colombia

  by jpm_sd on 3/16/2017, 2:36 PM with 0 comments