No stable salary. No benefits. No employment relationship.The Uberization of white-collar work?<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1562564055-71e051d33c19?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MXwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MjJ8fEVtcGxveW1lbnR8ZW58MHx8Mnw&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
Hi HN, we’re Brandon and Kingston, the founders of Hebbian Robotics. We built HFlow (https://github.com/Hebbian-Robotics/hflow), an SDK that turns multimodal recordings from robots and human operators into standardized, quality-checked episodes and queryable dataset manifests. A recording can contain synchronized video, joint states, actions, timestamps, and metadata, and HFlow processes those streams together.Here’s a demo of HFlow in action: https://www.youtube.co
I Tried to Beat Peter Norvig and Accidentally Became Ryan Gosling: Scaling a Meme to 10K RPS on 8GB RAMThe internet moves fast. One moment you are a nobody with a cheese bread recipe, the next, Ryan Gosling’s Twitter fingers have turned your side project into a distributed systems stress test. This is how we survived 10,000 requests per second on 8GB RAM with bounded queues, race condition free SQLite, and a healthy fear of thread explosion. The Gosling Effect: When Your Side Project
I built Invovanta to help freelancers and small businesses manage clients, create professional invoices, track payments, and keep their business information organized in one place.It also includes features like invoice PDFs, dashboards, client management, and AI-powered receipt extraction.I’d genuinely appreciate feedback from the HN community. What would you improve, remove, or add?
RAMageddon is real, as we've seen tech prices rise because of the global RAM and component crises. While it hasn't hit TV prices yet, Samsung has warned that price hikes can't be ruled out because of the ongoing memory chip shortage.• Shop Best Buy's full Labor Day saleNow, enough bad news; the good news is that TV costs haven't been affected yet, and thanks to Best Buy's Labor Day sale, you can get our best-rated TV at its lowest price yet. The retailer has LG's 65-i
Asobo Games says it's interested in making a new A Plague Tale game set in the modern dayThe studio says it would be like The Last of Us, since Naughty Dog's game was a "big inspiration"Actor Anna Demetriou says a modern-day spin-off would work well since the Macula is "fantastical"Asobo Games has said it "would love" to make a new A Plague Tale game set in the modern day, since Naughty Dog's The Last of Us influenced the series.In an interview with TechRadar Gaming a
New job projections show which may experience employment declines from 2025 to 2035, whether due to automation or another reason.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1652910159836-f04628b84637?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MXx8Sm9ic3xlbnwwfHwyfHwxNjUzMDcxMjcx&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
Samsung Galaxy phones have a dirty secret: the official thickness measurements do not include the camera bump. Most smartphones have this same secret, but Samsung’s design choices make it a particularly annoying problem. I set out to fix it.
Castle unveils four new loudspeakers in two rangesCastle Tintagel sell for lower prices, with refined driver combosCastle Walmer are a higher price, and one has an unusual driver layoutWhen you think about British Castle, you probably think about Windsor, Warwick or the Tower of London; little did I know that the name also referred to a brand making old-school-looking loudspeakers.I learned the truth because British Castle is back with a new quartet of speakers, all d
By almost any measure, Tim Cook has been one of the best tech CEOs ever. He diversified product lines, launched new lines of business, expanded across the globe, and grew Apple's overall market value ten-fold.Cook is the rare public tech figure who has, for the most part, survived the vagaries of a public life. Did he disappoint many when he appeared to bend the knee before the United States' divisive President? Absolutely, though if you understand Cook, and you liste
Aston Villa vs Newcastle: Monday, August 31 at 8pm BST / 3pm ET / 5am AEST (Tues)Streams: Sky Sports (UK) / USA Network via Fubo (US)Outside the UK? Use NordVPN to unblock your free streamWatch Aston Villa vs Arsenal live streams as the Gunners look to inflict more misery on the home side who lost their opening Premier League 2026/27game 4-0 after seeing a host of their best players depart over the summer. It’s been a tough start to the campaign for Aston Villa boss U
I write decoders for WebSocket payloads. Someone's app sends 214 bytes, I have no schema, and I have to guess what they are.The obvious way to build this is a chain of attempts: try JSON, try base64, try gzip, try MessagePack, return whatever sticks. That's what I built first. It was worse than useless, and fixing it changed how I think about this kind of code. Wrong answers cost more than no answerMessagePack is where I learned this. It's self-describing — the first byte tells you the type
Four months ago I published use-theme-mode, a small React hook for light/dark theming. It did what I wanted: managed the state, persisted the choice, read the system preference, and stayed out of my CSS.It worked perfectly in my demo.Then people started using it in apps that weren't mine, and I found four bugs that my demo had never once triggered. Not edge cases — the kind of thing that breaks a real page on a real Tuesday.This is what was wrong, why my testing missed it, and what 2.0 does abou
(https://businesschineseai.com)I Built an AI Platform to Practice Business Chinese Conversations (And What I Learned)How AI role-play transformed my approach to language learning, and the technical decisions behind building Business Chinese AIThe Problem: Learning Business Chinese is HardAs someone working with Chinese-speaking clients, I struggled to find good practice opportunities for business Chinese. Traditional language apps (Duolingo, etc.) focus on general vocabulary. Hiring a tutor cost
The least useful downloader interface is a text field followed by twenty identical buttons. It may technically work, yet it pushes every meaningful decision onto the user: Is this the right video? Does the file contain audio? Why is one MP4 much larger than another? Will the link still work tomorrow? Am I allowed to save it?I inspected the public Copy Video AI YouTube Downloader because it treats those questions as part of the interface. The page accepts standard watch URLs, Shorts, and youtu.be
Granton AdvertisingTech & Digital Infrastructure DivisionAugust 31, 2026Executive SummaryThe single greatest bottleneck to modern enterprise digital transformation is not the availability of AI models, but the rigid data isolation built into legacy core infrastructure. Decades-old software ecosystems—such as legacy property management systems (PMS), central reservation servers, and closed ERP configurations—were engineered as monolithic walled gardens. They lack the native streaming APIs, as
We recently ran Lighthouse audits across 40 top B2B SaaS web applications. Over 65% of them were failing Interaction to Next Paint (INP) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) targets.The culprit? Legacy onboarding and changelog widgets injecting 120KB–250KB of uncompressed JavaScript on initial page load.Here is a benchmark breakdown and how to get in-app experience infrastructure down to under 4KB. The Hidden Cost of Enterprise Onboarding ScriptsLegacy tools like Appcues or Pendo were designe
Your Next.js application might not be slow because your server is slow.It might be slow because you accidentally made the browser do work it never needed to do.I've seen developers increase server resources, change hosting providers, add caching, install optimization packages, and rewrite API calls......only to discover the real problem was a component importing a huge library for one tiny feature.So before you blame Vercel, your VPS, MongoDB, your API, or your internet connection, check these s
JavaScript Not Working? 15 Common Causes and FixesWhen JavaScript isn't working, the failure can range from silent UI unresponsive states to explicit browser crashes. A broken script typically falls into one of these core failure categories:JavaScript not loading: Broken file paths, incorrect server MIME types, or 404 network responses.Syntax & Parse errors: Code fails to compile before execution even starts.Console runtime errors: Uncaught exceptions (e.g., TypeError, ReferenceError) halt e
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