alt Hacker NewsThis post feels really weird, DreamLabs isn’t some well known project like Anthropic or OpenAI and Dream-1 wasn’t really an awaited release.
But somehow this was pushed to the front page of HN before receiving a single comment with a title reminiscent of a major LLM release. Like I can only find 1 other reference historically to this lab and nobody noticed it or cared.
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It does seem weird. In my experience HN generally shows little interest in robotics research, so I'm surprised to see this up top. I'm biased but I think Physical Intelligence's recent announcement is more impressive, with greater diversity of robot embodiments and more impressive real-world tasks in real workplaces. https://www.pi.website/blog/api-beta
I upvoted it while I ruminated on what I wanted write as a comment. It could have been a “multiple people are typing…” moment.
So essentielly comments from simonw? Sounds like what you describe
Random Wikipedia articles make it to the front page all the time. What’s so weird?
I posted it after I discovered the model on https://robocurve.org/
I discovered the Robocurve benchmark after someone on X was saying that Kimi K3.1 Pro was performing particular bad on it.
Anyway I found the model particularly interesting because I think it's the first time I see an API for a random bimanual robot. Also HN removes "Introducing" so it's just the name of the model.
There are PR agencies that take care of your content to be trending. They do use fake accounts to upvote and manipulate, but you as a customer don’t have to know that.
It only takes a few upvotes to get any story to the front page briefly. And on Saturdays there is just less competition.