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Viam Blog
Company blog · viam.com/post · on HN as biotinkerhardwareai
Viam Blog is the company blog at viam.com, writing about hardware and ai. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Viam's site for its product pages, such as the platform overview, which explains an open-source robotics and AI developer platform. Many links are job postings that describe the company.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Agentic infrastructure to develop, deploy, and operate robotics applications safely.
Most-linked posts?
- /5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-01-27
What Hacker News says?
Viam | Staff Software Engineer & Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure | Onsite 3 days (New York City/NYC) | https://www.viam.com/ Viam (founded by former co-founder/long-time CTO of MongodDB) is an open source robotics + AI developer platform. It is a single platform that brings software engineering maturity to robotics and automation. Why this could be interesting to you: Impact: ~100 people (~70 engineers) wit…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)”Submitted Viam: Modern robotics platform as a story · 43 points
HN discussionI work for Viam[0] and while all of our actual calculations are made using Spatial Vector Algebra[1], inputs can be made in a number of different ways and supporting DH is crucial for allowing pre-existing configurations to be easily brought over to our platform. SVA can also conveniently be easily used for both kinematics and dynamics. Personally I find SVA way more intuitive than DH or PoE. [0] https://www.viam.co…
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on “Robotics 501: Mathematics for Robotics”Submitted What Do You Want to Build? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionViam | https://www.viam.com | NYC (Hybrid, 3 days onsite) Open-source robotics + AI platform that brings software engineering maturity to building robotics and automation (we are a platform company -- not building a single robot or product). ~100 people total (~70 engineers). Tech: Go, MongoDB, Linux, GCP Roles: Staff Backend Engineer; Lead Software Engineer (people management + hands-on backend); Staff Technical Wr…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)”Submitted Automated agriculture: Building a DIY hydroponic gardening system as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTheir platform overview page does a decent job of talking about it without buzzwords. https://www.viam.com/product/platform-overview Basically, device drivers, data sync, control logic and ML inference all in one plus the glue to use it all together. I agree that they would benefit from a page dedicated more towards engineers and less towards marketers.
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on “Cake is watching you: I built a camera cake”Submitted Laundry machine called – it wants predictive maintenance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe changed the URL from https://www.viam.com/ to the page that seems to give more of an intro to what this is.
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on “Viam: Modern robotics platform”Submitted The 30M new neighbors protecting our city as a story · 2 points
HN discussionViam | NYC (Onsite 3 days/week) | Staff Engineer, Fleet Management | Lead, Data Platform | VP / Director Engineering | https://www.viam.com Viam makes robotics as programmable as software. We build a unified software layer for robotics, connected machines, and devices across hardware, cloud services, edge compute, data systems, and AI workloads. Founded by former MongoDB CTO/co-founder Eliot Horowitz. Open Source. S…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)”Submitted Building a Smarter Sprinkler System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is really cool, and something I’ve thought about a lot from various perspectives. This space badly needs some source of cohesion. You don’t need my advice but I noticed you said: > Our hope is to make device integration simple… I think you should use more assertive language! You know it can be done so you don’t need to hope — it’s what you’re going to do! Do or do not, there is no try! I love this idea in any c…
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on “Launch HN: Seam (YC S20) – API for IoT Devices”Submitted Deploying physical AI at scale: Key insights from our panel discussion as a story · 1 points
HN discussionViam | Senior & Staff Engineers Backend Engineers | NYC Hybrid 3 days (New York City) | https://www.viam.com/ Viam (founded by former co-founder/long-time CTO of MongodDB) is an open source robotics + AI developer platform. It is a single platform that brings software engineering maturity to robotics and automation. Why this could be interesting to you: Impact: ~100 people (~70 engineers) with only a handful at Staf…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)”Submitted An entrepreneur's path to building a voice-guided cooking assistant as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHonestly, just pick up some components (motors, webcams, sensors) from Amazon plus a Raspberry Pi. Google some tutorials on how to interface with those components programmatically. Beyond that, ROS is the heavily adopted project that can help coordinate all in a robot system: https://www.ros.org/ . It's a big project with a big learning curve. Some newer platforms like Viam aim to simplify all of this: https://www.v…
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on “Ask HN: Best way to learn DIY robotics?”Submitted Auto-labeling in Viam can elevate your edge ML project as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Local LLM and machine learning for plant care as a story · 1 points
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