Underrated reasons to be thankful V

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That your dog, while she appears to love you only because she’s been adapted by evolution to appear to love you, really does love you. That if you’re a life form and you cook up a baby and copy your genes to them, you’ll find that the genes have been degraded due to oxidative stress […]

Blender facial animation tool. What else should it do?

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LiveLinkFace ARKit Receiver is a Blender add-on that receives facial tracking data sent from the Live Link Face app on iPhone and automatically applies it to Shape Keys in Blender. 🎨 A simple tool that allows artists to animate their models using their own facial expressions. 📱 Dedicated to iPhone Live Link Face (ARKit mode) […]

The Input Stack on Linux: An End-to-End Architecture Overview

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Let’s explore and deobfuscate the input stack on Linux. Our aim is to understand its components and what each does. Input handling can be divided into two parts, separated by a common layer: Kernel-level handling: It deals with what happens in the kernel and how events are exposed to user-space The actual hardware connected to […]

It’s Been a Very Hard Year

27th of November 2025 Unlike a lot of places in tech, my company, Set Studio/Piccalilli has no outside funding. Bootstrapped is what the LinkedIn people say, I think. It’s been a hard year this year. A very hard year. I think a naive person would blame it all on the seemingly industry-wide attitude of “AI […]

’Extraordinary Discovery’ at Orkney’s Ness of Brodgar Neolithic Site

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27 November 2025 ShareSave ShareSave Scott Pike Archaeologists are to resume digging at the Ness of Brodgar on Orkney after 3D radar technology led to an ”extraordinary discovery”. The dig team at the Ness, one of the most important Neolithic sites in the British Isles, are not revealing what they believe the find to be […]

We’re Losing Our Voice to LLMs

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Home Blog Social media has become a reminder of something precious we are losing in the age of LLMs: unique voices. Over time, it has become obvious just how many posts are being generated by an LLM. The tell is the voice. Every post sounds like it was posted by the same social media manager. […]

Don’t be a scary old guy: My 40s survival strategy with charm

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Hi, it’s Takuya.Last week I had my birthday and turned 41 (November 19th). When I was younger, I could never really picture what life in my 40s would look like. It’s this vague age where you don’t have a clear image of how you’re supposed to live, right? Even if I try to look back at […]

Show HN: Runprompt – run .prompt files from the command line

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A single-file Python script for running .prompt files. Quick start | Examples | Configuration | Providers Quick start curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chr15m/runprompt/main/runprompt chmod +x runprompt Create hello.prompt: — model: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514 — Say hello to {{name}}! Run it: export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=”your-key” echo ’{”name”: ”World”}’ | ./runprompt hello.prompt In addition to the following, see the tests folder for more […]