Hacker News: chfritz

New comment by chfritz in "Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing"

chfritz — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:26:19 +0000

how is this different from using puppeteer to load the page and save the DOM as HTML?

New comment by chfritz in "Built a robot that scans Cracow's streets for graffiti"

chfritz — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:54:26 +0000

A script or program is not a robot.

Life is not a Simulation but a Thought Experiment

chfritz — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:16:24 +0000

Article URL: https://chfritz.github.io/writing/life-is-a-thought-experiment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269917

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

WebRTC Latency: side-by-side comparison [video]

chfritz — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:16:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmLS9rE6dTU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225205

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by chfritz in "Show HN: We sent a humanoid robot to clean a stranger's apartment in SF"

chfritz — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:17:19 +0000

Almost definitely 100% teleoperated -- the robot might move between places autonomously, but all the manipulation tasks, i.e., the actual cleaning, is not something anyone yet knows how to do autonomously reliably. And that's OK. However I'd like to know whether the data you gather from these cleanings is shared with other companies (who would be willing to pay a lot of money for it in order to train their own physical AI models).

Docker demystified: create your own containers in five minutes

chfritz — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:32:59 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/what-are-you-using-for-containerization-in-ros-deployments/54303

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139307

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Robot Teleoperation via WebRTC: Analyzing Latency

chfritz — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:52:52 +0000

Article URL: https://transitiverobotics.com/blog/webrtc-latency-breakdown/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039254

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by chfritz in "Ask HN: Hypothetical to robotics/autonomy engineers working on FSD"

chfritz — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:27:23 +0000

What a silly idea. Technology moves 20x faster than the legislature. There is no point in even trying this. By the time any suggestions would get implemented and (all?) signs replaced, they would already no longer be necessary -- like, 15 years past being necessary.

New comment by chfritz in "Robotics startups are losing to slow feedback loops"

chfritz — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:23:40 +0000

Makes a lot of sense, and seems better executed than AWS's pathetic RoboMaker attempt 8 years ago or whenever that was. Was looking for the team but there is no linkedin link on your page.

New comment by chfritz in "I am trying to collect a robotics community to learn robotics from scratch"

chfritz — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:42:38 +0000

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/927/

New comment by chfritz in "Show HN: RoboAPI – A unified REST API for robots, like Stripe but for hardware"

chfritz — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:09:29 +0000

The problem is not that there is no standard -- there is, it's called ROS. The problem is that manufacturers are not interested in opening their robots up to that degree.

Also, REST is a terrible idea for interacting with robots. REST is call-response based. But with Robots a pub/sub (like ROS or MQTT) or a blackboard data architecture (like what we used in Transitive Robotics) is much more efficient and natural.

New comment by chfritz in "Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture"

chfritz — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:56:14 +0000

Foxglove is not the only name in town. There are many, Transitive Robotics, the company I'm building is one of them. Different from Foxglove we are much more focused on live-remote monitoring and control, e.g., we have a pretty popular remote teleoperation module: https://transitiverobotics.com/caps/transitive-robotics/remo... You can find all the other modules we're currently offering here: https://transitiverobotics.com/caps/ The platform itself is and remains open-source.

Transitive Robotics announces Transitive 2.0 open-source robotics framework

chfritz — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:46:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.therobotreport.com/transitive-robotics-announces-transitive-2-0-open-source-robotics-framework/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757604

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by chfritz in "Transitive 2.0: store, visualize and alert about robotics fleet data"

chfritz — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:01:00 +0000

We are thrilled to announce a new major version of Transitive, the open-source framework for full-stack robotics. Version 2.0 adds significant new integrations and features: storage of historic and time-series data in ClickHouse, visualization in Grafana, and custom alerting via Alertmanager. Some of our capabilities, like the free Health Monitoring capability, already use these features, providing significant added value to robotics companies with growing fleets.

Transitive 2.0: store, visualize and alert about robotics fleet data

chfritz — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:01:00 +0000

Article URL: https://transitiverobotics.com/blog/transitive-v2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756458

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by chfritz in "Show HN: PhAIL – Real-robot benchmark for AI models. The gap to humans is 20x"

chfritz — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:12:22 +0000

This is absolutely awesome. Thanks for sharing! I would love to chat more with you. For context: we make a remote teleoperation solution for robotics. It's mostly used for mobile robots, but we've been getting a lot of inquiries regarding teleoperation for manipulation, so I've been learning more about this, in particular regarding the question of speed. I really appreciate these results!

Wing Expands Its Drone Delivery Service to the Bay Area

chfritz — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:11:07 +0000

Article URL: https://wing.com/news/wing-drone-delivery-bay-area

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495846

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by chfritz in "Show HN: Real-Time Robot Motion Planning in the Browser with WASM"

chfritz — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:24:00 +0000

Impressive!

A Modular Robot Dashboard

chfritz — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:10:11 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/transitiverobotics/transact

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267998

Points: 23

# Comments: 0

New comment by chfritz in "Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farming"

chfritz — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:39:09 +0000

Agreed. Feels icky. Made me want to leave the page as quickly as possible again.