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Posted by anant 3 hours ago

Muse Gadgets(gadgets.muse.ai)
64 points | 37 comments
belval 43 minutes ago|
I'll go against the grain and say that I like this, I genuinely don't think this is anything but some internal team being excited about their product and giving you some firmware to connect stuff to their agents. Meta the trillion dollar company will not move at all from this.
TomGarden 1 hour ago||
The larping as a grassroots/open source product is really off-putting. The only reason anyone would use this is that its "free" and comes with preloaded prompts for non-technical people.

No thanks.

logancbrown 1 hour ago|
LARPing would imply pretending to do something, but not actually doing it. Here they appear to be actually doing it (open source product). Is there something Im missing?
TomGarden 3 minutes ago|||
You only addressed half of it. I'm with you that the code is open source, but it's an open source client for Meta's proprietary service. The one original piece of hardware on this "Open source hardware for your Muse" page, the Home Link, only works with an active subscription. And the "grassroots" part is clearly larpy: a "by hackers, for hackers" voice in a Meta incubator repo.
mh- 1 hour ago||||
A surplus of outrage and a willingness to share your unfiltered reactions to things, I guess.
verdverm 1 hour ago||
celebrities and billionaires always catch more heat, can we not call out their bs?
verdverm 1 hour ago|||
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logancbrown 47 minutes ago||
Your response is unrelated to the content of this thread (the open sourcing of hardware/software)
verdverm 32 minutes ago||
sorry, cannot see past the terrible person

there are so many other awesome open hardware/software we could share and talk about, from other HNers, some in /new right now

...instead of this

karmakaze 1 hour ago||
It says make it your own. Then

> Gadgets you build with the Muse Gadget SDK need a token. Add it to your SDK configuration so your gadgets can pair with the Muse app.

> Each token can be used by a limited number of devices.

> The Muse Gadget SDK is intended for personal tinkering and is not a supported product or developer platform. The SDK can change, break, or stop functioning without warning.

Doesn't really feel like it's my own.

intrasight 30 minutes ago||
That has been the nature of every Facebook API ever released
therealpygon 1 hour ago||
Clearly you just made the completely unique mistake of not understanding it’s more like the “ownership” of digital movies, games and music where there is clearly no ownership. That is completely obvious to anyone who would see the word “own”…at least according to most companies court filings.

(I joke, but not really…)

verdverm 1 hour ago||
our digital landlords, we are but serfs
modeless 42 minutes ago||
Literally yesterday I ordered an ESP32-C5 board to build a home network proxy for cloud agents (including but not limited to Muse), and today they announce this. I guess this is confirmation I'm on the right track.
zmmmmm 58 minutes ago||
The general theme of meta's approach across the board here is interesting - basically, they are trying to win in part by taking risks others aren't willing to. I can imagine they saw that all the success is coming so far when a someone is willing to cross a boundary that wasn't previously thought acceptable - from releasing ChatGPT in the first place, to things like OpenClaw.

So now they are actively distributing SDKs and to let people "hack" custom hardware integrations to their already risky AI agents unleashed on the general public. Giving agents abilty to control things in the physical world - what could possibly go wrong?

But here we are: so far the story is pretty much 100% "fortune favors the bold", and Meta is leaning into it.

MetaverseClub 1 hour ago||
Please do not waste hardware (nowadays valuable) on Meta's privacy-leaking garbage.
bauerd 1 hour ago||
A Meta ecosystem is definitely not coming to my household.
compiler-guy 55 minutes ago||
Even ignoring all the privacy issues Meta has (and they are many, and we shouldn't), Zuck is happy to do a rug-pull on his users whenever he feels like it.

"Facebook's main purpose isn't really to connect with friends any more."

If he wakes up tomorrow and decides everything should be different, and that ruins your plans, well tough beans for you. I wouldn't touch this with a ten-foot pole.

kelvinjps10 2 hours ago||
This being Facebook is hard to trust with everything even considering they already have a lot of info on you
sajithdilshan 12 minutes ago|
I honestly don’t think I would have any gadget from meta even if they payed me.

As for AI, I would only use it for work and as a substitute for google search and don’t want it to do anything else in my personal life

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