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Instrumental
Company blog · instrumental.com/bloghardwarebusiness
Instrumental is the company blog at instrumental.com, writing about hardware and business. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Homepage of Instrumental, a manufacturing optimization and visual inspection company. HN comments mostly are hiring posts or mention it as a competitor, and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Find and fix known and unknown issues, improve yields, and transform operations using Instrumental's Manufacturing Acceleration Platform
What Hacker News says?
Instrumental | Onsite (remote during SARS-CoV-2) | Palo Alto, CA, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; New York City, NY, USA; San Diego, CA, USA; Longhua, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Can you imagine writing software with no debugger or logging, and you only get to run it every few weeks? That's what building hardware is like for many product companies. At Instrumental, we're building a manufacturing optimization system that colle…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)”Submitted Top Production Defects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInstrumental | ONSITE | Palo Alto, CA, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Charlotte, NC, USA; Longhua, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Can you imagine writing software with no debugger or logging, and you only get to run it every few weeks? That's what building hardware is like for many product companies. At Instrumental, we're building a manufacturing optimization system that collects data no one else can, and uses machine learning…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)”Submitted Hardware engineers speak in code: EVT, DVT, PVT decoded as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHow does this differ from instrumental? https://instrumental.com/
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on “Launch HN: Cerrion (YC S22) – Computer vision to reduce production line problems”Color me unimpressed. They are essentially "reimplementing" what Instrumental [1] - pioneer of and leader in the manufacturing visual inspection field - has already developed and has been successfully deploying globally. I know that Landing AI is saying that manufacturing is just the first of many potential applications of their platform. However, as of now, it is nothing more than vaporware and I have serious doubt…
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on “Landing AI: Visual Inspection Platform (Andrew Ng)”I am not working on: - An entirely user-mode Docker container runtime for Windows, which based on my initial research would have to be qemu running Linux slowly. Maybe it could all be WASM'd into the browser (even more slowly)? The interesting part there would be interfacing storage/networking vs. the browser. - Nested Windows RDP X509 [smart card] authentication through Guacamole or other browser-based RDP client i…
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on “Ask HN: What are you *not* working on?”