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Rivian
Company blog · stories.rivian.comhardwareai
Rivian is the company blog at stories.rivian.com, writing about hardware and ai. Since 2023, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The New R1S and R1T”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Rivian's official company blog of product and news stories. Commenters link it for details on the second-generation R1 electrical architecture and compute platform, and for the Amazon EDV van news.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The latest articles, field notes, and perspectives from Rivian.
Most-linked posts?
- The New R1S and R1T2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-06
What Hacker News says?
Probably related: https://stories.rivian.com/meet-the-new-r1 > Our second generation R1 vehicles feature an entirely new electrical architecture and compute platform developed in-house by our hardware and software team. This significant update to our onboard computing system makes our vehicles more robust, less costly to produce and easier to service — all while improving the experience for our customers. Our new sy…
Comment linking /meet-the-new-r1
on “Volkswagen's cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software”Submitted The New R1S and R1T as a story · 15 points
HN discussion> or more tech startups in Louisville. Strongly agree, the Midwest is the future of advanced manufacturing, not California. Rivian is in Normal, IL, and expanding currently [1] for example. If we're going to spend the next 5-10 years building China's equivalent supply chain, the Midwest is a better location imho (cost of living, land costs, logistics, etc). If you were an investor, where would you build? Very wealth…
Comment linking /r2-expansion-03-2025
on “SF Mayor Lurie to tech CEOs: 'How can we get you back?'”Submitted Rivian Autonomy and AI Day as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt's designed to be modular (different lengths especially). There's a smaller variant for European roads that was just in the news: https://stories.rivian.com/amazon-announces-rivian-edv-europ...
Comment linking /amazon-announces-rivian-edv-europe
on “Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages”Submitted R2: Ready for the Wild as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Autonomy at Rivian as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted R2 Autonomy+ Roadmap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rivian Assistant and Rivian Unified Intelligence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted R2: Final Validation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Charger Reliability Scores as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sounds of Rivian as a story · 1 points
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