Charlotte's transport referendum has won. 1% sales tax increase is expected to generate $19 billion/20 years, funding: —Transit (40%): Red Line commuter rail, Silver Line light rail, Gold Line extension, Blue Line extension —Road projects (40%) —Bus improvements, creating frequent bus network (20%)

Trump tries to build a fake wall of inevitability around everything he does. Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.

Zohran Mamdani gives hope. Well deserved victory! feeling inspired by the people of NYC tonight.

I was so sad to hear about Daniel Naroditsky passing away. During the pandemic I spend hundreds of hours watching him teach chess on Twitch and YouTube. His famous super slow “speed runs”. I learned so much from him and I’ll miss him a lot. Rest in Peace. “Okay, so you lost your 1/2

didnt catch the AWS status page but pretty sure it was the green check with a little information icon. orange = amazon has shut down completely red = heat death of universe

This is a good video on a Chinese typewriter that can type 91,000 characters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ihu...

Overheard someone on the phone in Atlanta saying “… agentic workflows” and I am so happy to be working in Robotics where I have not heard anyone say that phrase in weeks.

This looks really dope, cant wait to try it out! :D

I am currently working on controlling my robot with my brain aka EEG. Its a lot tougher then I thought #maker #wip

Robot installing solar panels

🚨HUGE WIN for Michigan transit! 🚍 We just secured a record $160 MILLION increase — the largest in state history 🙌 Thanks to relentless transit advocates, pro-transit legislators, and @gretchenwhitmer.bsky.social! More buses 🚌 Future trains 🚆 More service ✅ More communities connected!

The latest version of MacOS and iOS is so sloppy. When they released Vision Pro as a half baked expensive thing I told Aosheng that it was day 2 for Apple. I am sad to be right. It’s so depressing to watch a company that you admired for so long dissapear in front of your eyes.

Spent some time this weekend working on a vagrant box that makes it easier to use ROS2 inside Ubuntu on an Apple Silicon Mac via VMWare Fusion. https://levlaz.org/vagrant-box-for-ros2-on-apple-silicon/

Orbstack is incredible for removing this pain: orbstack.dev

Not sure what is more challenging trying to get ros2 work done on MacOS or trying to get an Ubuntu VM running on an M series Mac. Just pain on top of pain everywhere you look. :)

In 2 years Nissans will have their own version of AutoPilot, thanks to Wayve global.nissannews.com/en/releases/...

You’re allowed to write a paragraph without using an emdash. Punctuation outside of commas and periods are most effective when used sparingly. A dash of em can go a long way. 😉

I miss scott-free august

Ok folks, we need to talk about the Vanta Llama.

Excited to share that I’ve joined Foxglove(https://foxglove.dev/) to build out the Solutions Engineering and Fordward Deployed Engineering functions. We’re building the observability stack for robotics and I could’nt be more excited to dive in.

A small rant on the contemporary Zeitgeist for the weekend. Fuck 996. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/4/996/

You know you are really getting deep into a learning hole when you look up a definition and the definition also has new words, and that definition also has new words.

Oh stop it, both the media for this idiotic reductive narrative and Dem centrists for being such astonishing wimps. The voters of NYC — especially young ones — made their clear choice, so either move along or go sit down. You win nothing by being cautious and scared www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

my BFF saw a PPT that said their CEO was into MCP but they dont TDD and they dont TIP so their MVP fell of HN,FP. they wanted B2B but got no RSVP so took their IDE plugged in API key and made an RPG that siphoned BTC. now their SAFE is worth 1000g and the MAU are looking quite healthy so 1/2

regex101 is still the best resource for quickly playing around with regex. https://regex101.com/

This is the kind of shit that caused me to crack open org-mode on emacs again for the first time this decade. The day I have to log in and toggle AI settings in emacs is the day I just stop using computers forever.

peak enshittification

The great bundling and unbundling cycle continues. Now that each streaming service is approaching 20 bucks a pop, it’s only a matter of time before a benevolant bundler comes along and allows us to subscribe to all the services for a discount. That discount will then increase every year 1/2

Poor little robot :'( www.news.com.au/technology/g...

emacs requires two key combos to do anything but I still somehow manage to fuck it up and get stuck in emacs hell all the time.

Windows 3.1 was the first operating system that we had on a home computer that my mom brought home around 1998 (already a generation behind). This post brings back some memories. https://www.xtof.info/inside-windows3.html

This piece about John McPhee’s writing methods is so good, makes me want to write. I also love that org-mode gets an honorable mention here. :) https://jsomers.net/blog/the-mcphee-method

agent.ai is the new opensea

This is some fresh hell, have not seen this in a desktop app before. But of course the pestering was inevitable.

Another banger from Ed Zitron @edzitron.com > Really, their argument comes down to one thought: you must get on board now, because at some point it'll be so good you'll feel stupid for not believing something that kind of sucks wouldn't be really good.

Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future. www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...

DHH is in his distro hopping phase. ubuntu, arch, looking forward to the linux from scratch omakase.

Not enough officially published rage bait books anymore. https://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf

C making a comeback? https://github.com/bravenewxyz/agent-c

Feeling happy that a bunch of the top stories on HN today were just links to github repos.

This post about browser agents falling for scams is interesting. If this tech actually takes off there is going to be a whole new game of cat and mouse starting up. https://guard.io/labs/scamlexity-we-put-agentic-ai-browsers-to-the-test-they-clicked-they-paid-they-failed

Such a cool post about restoring a Mac Classic https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/build-log-macintosh-classic

grug for design, hot tips in here. https://www.grug.design/know

I have no idea how I have never heard of @jessicatarlov.bsky.social, but she is a bad ass. The amount of patience and frame control that it would take to show up every day and sit next to these awful people on Fox News and still be the voice of reason is inspiring.

The other day at around 8am in WeWork two dudes show up as guests and took a look around. I overhead them in the hallway lamenting how WeWork does not have the same energy ever since Adam Neumann left.

Has anyone figured out how to disable gemini/ai inside of google docs? It’s gotten so bad with constant pestering that I used Pages for the first time this decade.

Bluesky is on the front of HN right now, go contribute the good word! @atproto.com #atdev #atprotodev news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4496...

How do you get over the cynicism? I miss being naive and optimistic.