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 […]
Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
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We’re Losing Our Voice to LLMs
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
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
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 […]
TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term
Hey everyone, As I find the topic of Google TPUs extremely important, I am publishing a comprehensive deep dive, not just a technical overview, but also strategic and financial coverage of the Google TPU. Topics covered: The history of the TPU and why it all even started? The difference between a TPU and a GPU? […]
Show HN: MkSlides – Markdown to slides with a similar workflow to MkDocs
Use mkslides to easily turn Markdown files into beautiful slides using the power of Reveal.js! MkSlides is a static site generator that’s geared towards building slideshows. Slideshow source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration file. The workflow and commands are heavily inspired by MkDocs and reveal-md. Build static HTML […]
The State of GPL Propagation to AI Models
When GitHub Copilot was launched in 2021, the fact that its training data included a vast amount of Open Source code publicly available on GitHub attracted significant attention, sparking lively debates regarding licensing. While there were issues concerning conditions such as attribution required by most licenses, there was a particularly high volume of discourse suggesting […]
Show HN: Spikelog – A simple metrics service for scripts, cron jobs, and MVPs
Built for side projects, MVPs, and small production systems. Need long retention, complex queries, and compliance? Use Axiom Just want to track a few numbers? Use Spikelog. Start Tracking Built because setting up Grafana to track one number felt ridiculous.
How Arthur Conan Doyle Explored Men’s Mental Health Through Sherlock Holmes
Note: This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. It includes links to external sites that may earn a commission for purchases. We did not add these links and have kept the original content intact. Arthur Conan Doyle was not just one of the world’s best crime fiction writers. He was […]