DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate(dronedj.com)

338 points by huerne 2 years ago | 540 comments

DroneDJ article reporting that a bill banning DJI drones passed the US House as part of the NDAA and moves to the Senate.

Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia(npr.org)

198 points by consumer451 1 year ago | 206 comments

Neros has raised $121M to build military drones(nytimes.com)

19 points by asix66 11 months ago | 31 comments

Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report(gizmodo.com)

79 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 57 comments

DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio(dronexl.co)

56 points by daau 2 months ago | 39 comments

Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles(arstechnica.com)

173 points by Bender 6 months ago | 57 comments

Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data(nianticlabs.com)

403 points by bookstore-romeo 1 year ago | 305 comments

Niantic blog post announcing its Large Geospatial Model, built from scans collected via Pokémon Go and other apps for visual positioning and spatial understanding.

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)

1348 points by xiaoyu2006 4 months ago | 488 comments

Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored(rachel.fast.ai)

549 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 134 comments

Rachel Thomas blog post on how a high-profile Nature paper using a Transformer to predict enzyme functions contained many errors that received far less attention than the original result.

US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report(cnn.com)

391 points by realsarm 1 month ago | 306 comments

CNN report on a US military near-incident after an AI system produced a hallucinated intelligence report, reportedly involving a Chinese ship.

Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns(geohot.github.io)

601 points by ppew 7 months ago | 402 comments

A blog post by geohot arguing that social media fear about falling behind on AI agents is nonsense and urging people to focus on creating value for others.

Happy New Year 2025

1123 points by martynvandijke 1 year ago | 244 comments

A Hacker News discussion thread where users exchange New Year 2025 greetings and reflect on the community.