https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/science/robots-pancake-ju...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/travel/biometrics-airport...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/technology/tesla-autopilo...
Which is the sort of thing they had in Wired and Omni. (We should be careful not to romanticize the omni/wired days. They weren't deep technical articles like HN has, but still interesting new tech that was somewhat hyped up.)