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Make that N=2, the one person I know who suffers from phone-induced motion sickness says that having this feature on makes the sickness worse.

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Apologies - the source code was shared with me in confidence, dropping it on GitHub was explicitly one of the things I would not do with it. Will update you if that stance changes!…

The personality also comes from the system prompt, but I’ll grant you, it’s pretty minor. I’m looking forward to a future where everyone could have their own personality model that…

Local inference is definitely a good way to go here. Latency when talking to an embodied robot is extremely noticeable though, and pauses during voice chats are way worse than duri…

https://allevato.me/2026/04/03/reviving-a-robot

Are you perhaps thinking of torch.matmul? torch.mul (and torch.multiply, and the * operator) perform element-wise multiplication. torch.matmul was one of the first functions I impl…

An open source website I built to explain tensor functions in PyTorch: https://whytorch.org It makes tricky functions like torch.gather and torch.scatter more intuitive by showing …

Announcing WhyTorch, an open source website I built to explain PyTorch functions. It makes tricky functions like torch.gather and torch.scatter more intuitive by showing element-le…

I have a PhD in robotics. Got my start with Lego Mindstorms and highly recommend them. Another commenter mentioned FIRST LEGO League, which is a great idea. However, it does requir…

Yes. Here's Delta IV: https://www.ulalaunch.com/docs/default-source/rockets/delta-...

It may be marketing, but believe it or not, this is standard practice for rockets! Here's the ULA Delta IV User Guide - https://www.ulalaunch.com/docs/default-source/rockets/delta-…

Hello, Hacker News! I'm the dev for this project. Our early testers have found Cherry very useful for preventing interruptions during recording sessions. It works for any size stud…

Yep, I think it was a Twitter trending topic.

It was pretty incredible. The "diamond ring" really bursts out over the edge of the moon, and then it's glasses on or look away, because the sun's back.