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comma.ai blog
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comma.ai blog is the company blog at blog.comma.ai, writing about ai and hardware. Since 2021, 45 different Hacker News readers have linked it 64 times, most often “Chestnut”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- /a-100x-investment-part-2/6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-07-19
- Chestnut4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-08-12
- Launching the Comma Body4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-05-04
- A drive to Taco Bell without a disengagement with openpilot3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-21
- Comma.ai Autonomy3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-27
- Don't rent the cloud, own instead3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-04
- Learning to Drive from a World Model2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-29
- Development Speed over Everything2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-14
- Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-24
- A 100x Investment (2019)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-19
What Hacker News says?
A lead would need to teach significantly more to even be considered. Does the vehicle have (1) an after-market device installed that (2) detects that a first component stopped sending commands to a second component and (3) uses relay switch to disconnect the failed first component from the second component and (4) starts sending commands to the second component on its own that are indistinguishable from those sent b…
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on “Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit”Submitted Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit as a story · 1212 points
HN discussionComma is actually hosting a hack in February, if anyone is feeling up to trying something like this on another "vintage" car https://blog.comma.ai/comma-hack-5/
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on “Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot”Submitted Happy 10k Day as a story · 146 points
HN discussionGoing to leave this here https://blog.comma.ai/a-100x-investment-part-1/ https://blog.comma.ai/a-100x-investment-part-2/
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on “GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house”Submitted Comma.ai: Refactoring for Growth as a story · 133 points
HN discussioncomma.ai | SW/HW Engineers, Designer | Full-time | On-site| San Diego, CA | https://comma.ai/jobs We're the Android of self-driving cars. -> Second largest fleet after Tesla, 54% miles engaged -> Open source, profitable, and lots of cool problems to work on -> 21 people, mostly engineers: https://blog.comma.ai/refactoring-for-growth Our hiring process: * programming challenge or bounty * quick technical phone call *…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)”Submitted A 100x Investment (2019) as a story · 127 points
HN discussionI don't think that's what Hotz is saying at all, but he's saying that he's not person for the job anymore. He writes: "My two part blog post from 2019 remains a true description of the space." And this is a quote from (part two of) that blog.[0] > Nobody will have cars without a safety driver in cities anytime soon. Self driving appears to be like fusion, but instead of being perpetually 50 years away, it’s perpetua…
Comment linking /a-100x-investment-part-2/
on “I’m taking some time away from Comma”Submitted Openpilot 0.10 as a story · 26 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.comma.ai/a-100x-investment-part-1/ https://blog.comma.ai/a-100x-investment-part-2/ It's basically a bunch of apples-to-oranges comparisons that don't make sense.
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on “I’m taking some time away from Comma”Submitted The Comma Four as a story · 11 points
HN discussioncomma.ai | Software + Hardware Engineers | San Diego, CA | ONSITE Our mission is to solve self driving cars while delivering shippable intermediaries . We build and sell the comma 3X to a growing fleet of users and get back 3M minutes of driving data every week for training openpilot. Some background on what we're hiring for: https://blog.comma.ai/refactoring-for-growth/ https://comma.ai/jobs - Systems Software Engi…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)”Submitted openpilot (open source ADAS) 0.9.8 release as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI saw this in Comma AI's blog post - they have also been sued and are planning to fight back: https://blog.comma.ai/ourfirstlawsuit/
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on “Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll and won (2019)”Submitted Comma.ai Autonomy as a story · 7 points
HN discussion>Each robot had several human escorts, and the robots were limited to slow walking and a few slow hand gestures. More importantly, the robots were limited to doing no real work. They just feebly pick up objects and place them somewhere else, which I am pretty sure doesn't require AI. For example, the vid shows the robot pouring hot water into a glass with a massive funnel strapped to it. Why not have the robot fill…
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on “Tesla Optimus Bots Were Remotely Operated at Cybercab Event”Submitted Comma.ai: End-to-end lateral planning as a story · 6 points
HN discussionApparently some just gamble that by having some instances of every time, they won't all go down: "However, your cloud provider can pull these virtual machines out from under you at any time without notice (because someone else is willing to pay more). So how do you lower the probability of losing all of your instances to nearly zero? Cloud providers generally need to have a large buffer of capacity and they have man…
Comment linking /scaling-for-10x-user-growth/
on “GCP releases Spot VMs, the next generation of Pre-emptible VMs”Submitted Openpilot 0.10 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionthru the footer i discovered https://blog.comma.ai/autonomy/ which i have to call out for clear simple communication which i loved
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on “Comma.ai: Refactoring for Growth”Submitted Learning to Drive from a World Model as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.comma.ai/commabody/ The comma body is the first “intermediary” for the new mission. It’s also the pathway to supporting all cars that a human can drive. The endgame of comma isn’t a box that sits on your windshield, it’s a robot person that gets in the driver’s seat. And it will be able to do a lot more than drive. Appears to me to be a distracting pivot. Especially given the “Stay Focused on the Missio…
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on “A 100x Investment (2019)”Submitted A drive to Taco Bell without a disengagement with openpilot as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDon't miss part 2: https://blog.comma.ai/a-100x-investment-part-2/
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on “A 100x Investment (2019)”Submitted Bugs That Broke Driving as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPart 2: https://blog.comma.ai/a-100x-investment-part-2/
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on “A 100x Investment (2019)”Submitted Openpilot 0.9.9 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI am going to leave this here https://blog.comma.ai/a-100x-investment-part-1/ https://comma-ai.medium.com/a-100x-investment-part-2-569b714...
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on “Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns”Submitted Bugs that broke driving: Machine Learning edition as a story · 2 points
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