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Trump administration bans new Chinese humanoid robots
- Avicebron 2mo agoBrother, at least let us get our hands on some to reverse engineer.
- yogthos 2mo agoTrump banned Huawei when US companies started having trouble competing with them. Biden banned Chinese EVs when they got better than Tesla. Now Trump is banning Chinese humanoid robots. A ban on Chinese open weight AI models feels inevitable at this point.
- SlightlyLeftPad 2mo agoI’m new, Which ones are the best to download or experience now?
- toomuchtodo 2mo agoKimi K3 at the moment. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Kimi%20K3&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- SlightlyLeftPad 2mo agoSomeday when it rains 8xB300 nodes…
- toomuchtodo 2mo agoRun Kimi K3 on a local computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098395 - July 2026
- toomuchtodo 2mo agoKimi K3 now runs on one consumer GPU - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102291 - July 2026 https://x.com/Akashi203/status/2082555972380401852 https://x.com/Akashi203/status/2082555972380401852 https://github.com/RightNow-AI/local-kimi https://github.com/RightNow-AI/local-kimi
- yogthos 2mo agoQwen 3.6 27b is still the gold standard for running locally.
- esafak 2mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120299
- impulser_ 2mo agoDam, we are never going to have anything cool in the US. Our robot companies are too busy raising money to make more cool looking power points to then raise more money to burn not making an actually sellable product before they go under :(
- verdverm 2mo agoLearn you some Mandarin for a great good
- ColdStream 2mo agoIt is starting to feel like if the US bans a technology then you know that is the good stuff. In the same way all the best albums had the "Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics" label on the front.
- downbad_ 2mo agoLike they threatened to ban TikTok because it was so good it was sucking millions of Americans in.
- thingswecantsay 2mo agoThis is absolutely the case. Look at the price/performance on chinese phones or cars vs. those available in the US. Especially given some of the explicit claims in our declaration of independence regarding trade restriction, it boggles my mind that people aren't more pissed off about this, as beyond the lack of any personal access to better products, the outcomes of such a system in the long term have long been proven out. Pulling a quote from [0], as I suspect we all know how well the USSR's economic policy served it: 'The stated tasks of the monopoly of foreign trade are: to ward off capitalist eco- nomic penetration, to provide "maximum assistance" to domestic capital formation' It's a handout to uncompetitive corps in the US, as well as a guarantee that they can continue to be uncompetitive, and any claims that it protects US jobs are laughable given how much of that industrial base has been shipped overseas. It effectively only serves to force the US population to be a captive audience to the monopsonists, at the cost of rendering the entire country less productive and less free. More impactful than robots, as well, concurrently the administration has also banned all foreign solar inverters, hamstringing solar deployment [1] [0] https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2804&context=lcp https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article... [1] https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/07/28/fcc-bans-foreign-produced-solar-inverters-grid-lockout-begins-today/ https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/07/28/fcc-bans-foreign-prod...