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XRWorkout - Gamified calisthenics in XR www.xrworkout.io

Blender Sensor Simulation www.blensor.org

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blensor··on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
Would someone doing a clean room reverse engineering be permissible to then share would they built?
blensor··on Show HN: Boing
I don't think you need to move the mouse, you just need to click slightly offcenter while still bein inside the ball.
blensor··on The 'S&P 493' reveals a different U.S. economy
Interesting idea, even average would probably already work, it would give high performers some impact but not as much as now.

But it kinda misses what the S&P is in my pov. An index tracking how the value of those companies developed over the years measures by what you would have now if you would have invested in each of them

blensor··on The 'S&P 493' reveals a different U.S. economy
I guess the story here is more like

If you take the Top 500 companies as an indicator how well your economy is doing, but everything is carried on the shoulders of only 1.4% of those 500 companies then what is the point of looking at the 500 companies in the first place.

Make an S&P10 then instead. or in addition to the S&P500

That would probably be a good way to look at it anyway. Looking at the trend of the S&P10 vs. S&P500 and if they agree then thumbs up, but if they disagree then things might not be as rosy as everyone thinks

blensor··on Blender Lab
+1 on that. Works for me after that
blensor··on US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
Since the democrats are not the ones in power at the moment, don't they have the bigger obligation towards the position of the people who voted for them. Which would be exactly the demand they are making right now.

The party who is running the country does in theory have an obligation to all Americans, the opposition has an obligation to their own block.

blensor··on Recall for Linux
Maybe they wanted to intentionally make it look like AI as an added pun
blensor··on Recall for Linux
I thought that at first too until I read the first bullet point

" Stores all you sensitive data "

That's a grammar error I don't expect an LLM to make?

blensor··on Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset
I can absolutely see that, yes

Not everything needs to be XR/VR/AR to be useful.

blensor··on Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset
That's something I am worrying about too
blensor··on Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset
I think the most defining factor of it is that you have the play store right there and can just run any normal android app too.

I even installed Termux via F-Droid today, and have a bluetooth keyboard with touchpad connected to it.

blensor··on A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Isn't the difference here that to poison wikipedia you have to do it quite agressively vy directly altering the article which can easily be challenged whereas the training data poisoning can be done much more subversivly
blensor··on Using a laptop as an HDMI monitor for an SBC
You may be interested in this then https://github.com/mgschwan/viture_virtual_display

Or now that I think of it, just use the glasses with a regular hdmi adapter ( but no 3dof tracking then )

blensor··on The HackberryPi CM5 handheld computer
I don't know what change they would need to make but the OrangePi had it for quite some time and it works well
blensor··on CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up
I heard that too, and it kinda makes sense, but what I also heard is that this one time price increase may not come all at once but drawn out over a longer period because some industries will eat the tariffs longer than others.

So instead of a massive inflation bump in one month you may get a sustained inflation rise over 6-12 months for example, which from the consumers POV probably looks just like higher inflation overall

blensor··on Removing yellow stains from fabric with blue light
I wonder if you could remove blue ink with yellow light. Specifically residue from ballpoint pens on furniture.
blensor··on Removing yellow stains from fabric with blue light
I haven't read the paper only looked at the first page with the two sheets, but I think the novel idea here is that it's using complementary colors.

Take a color that is maximally absorbed by the stain and thus get the most energy into it without affecting too much else.

I wonder if that would work with other colors as well.

blensor··on The HackberryPi CM5 handheld computer
The Raspberry Pi is in dire need of a DP Alt mode USB C port. Those small portable devices would pair nicely with the current wave of Display/XR glasses but they all need Displayport via USB.

And while you can work around that with an adapter it takes away from the simplicity of just plugging in the glasses ( and most of them get quite hot too).

blensor··on Reverse engineering Solos smart glasses
I found this yesterday https://minimis.life/ it also has cycling in mind based off their description
blensor··on AI is propping up the US economy
Prices going up is only true if you also let the specs go up

If you fix the specs and progress time then the prices go down considerably

Take the first Iphone which was $499 ( $776.29 if adjusted for inflation ) and try to find a currently built phone with similar specs. I couldn't find any that go down that far but the cheapest one I could find was the ZTE Blade L9 ( which still has higher specs overall ) then we are looking at over 90% price reduction

blensor··on AI is propping up the US economy
I don't understand your point then. The original product exists because someone used their own or their investors money and made a bet on an idea.

Then they hope they can sell it at a profit.

Products becoming cheaper is a result of the processes getting more optimized ( on the production side and the supply side ) which is a function of the desire to increase the profit on a product.

Without any other player in the market this means the profit a company makes on that product increases over time.

With other players in that market that underprice your product it means that you have to reinvest parts of your profit into making the product cheaper ( or better ) for the consumer.

blensor··on AI is propping up the US economy
That is literally what patents were invented for. Give the entity that puts the resources into creating something new some protection to be able to recoup that
blensor··on AI is propping up the US economy
I'd say prices of products come down due to competition, not due to the companies getting more money outside of the regular supply/demand relationship.

Let's assume you have a monopoly on something with a guarantee that no one else can sell the same product in your market. Then there is no direct incentive to make the product cheaper, even if you can produce it for cheaper. Adding more money on top of it that is supposed to trickle down in some way will not make that product cheaper, unless there is an incentive for that company to do so.

The real world is of course more complicated, let's say you have two companies that get the incentives and one of them is using it to make the product cheaper, then that will "trickle down" as a price decrease because the other company need to follow suit to stay competitive. But this again is driven by the market and not the incentives and would have happened without them just as well.

blensor··on Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
"The brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.."

Average duration per generation: 1.28 seconds

Characters processed per second: 30.35

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"Um"

Average duration per generation: 0.22 seconds

Characters processed per second: 9.23

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"The brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.. The brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.."

Average duration per generation: 2.25 seconds

Characters processed per second: 35.04

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processor : 0

vendor_id : AuthenticAMD

cpu family : 25

model : 80

model name : AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics

stepping : 0

microcode : 0xa50000c

cpu MHz : 1397.397

cache size : 512 KB

blensor··on Apache ECharts 6
This was such a random post on HN, because I didn't even know about echarts about 2 weeks ago. I had been using amcharts for the workout analysis in XRWorkout for several years but wanted to switch to a more open library.

Converting the old amcharts code to echarts worked almost automatically with Gemini 2.5 Pro and since a bit over a week all stats in the game ( via webview ) and in the web on the user portal are now using echarts.

I'm even using it in a Three.js visualizer for the recorded workout data ( which is still highly experimental so don't judge the visuals please ): https://portal.vrworkout.at/static/workout_visualizer/index....

blensor··on Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope
Would this really help though.

Let's assume there is a payment processor where anything goes, the company utilizing it would still be punished by the other payment processors.

I don't think Visa/Mastercard would care that you only sell the things they don't want through other payment processors, they still would threaten to cut you off entirely for having the content they don't like

blensor··on Do not download the app, use the website
The most annoying thing is repeat questions ( reddit, linkedin, facebook, ... ). If I already told the site 10 times that I don't want to use the mobile app, stop asking me. That's even worse than cookie consent banners, at least those stay away
blensor··on Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
So you are basically looking at "fMRI" of the "brain" while it's doing a wide range of things and cutting out the things that stay dark the most?
blensor··on Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
Not an AI researcher here so this is probably common knowledge for people in this field, but I saw a video about the quantization recently and wondered exactly about that, if it's possible to compress a net by using more precision where it counts and less precision where it's not important. And also wondered how one would go about deciding which parts count and which don't

Great to know that this is already a thing and I assume model "compression" is going to be the next hot topic

blensor··on OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative
I recently ( a few months ago ) finally caved an bought Davinci Resolve for linux and despite that I almost exclusively use Kdenlive instead every time I quickly want to make a video.

This of course is most likely a skill issue at my part but it really feels to me like kdenlive is getting in the way of my flow much less than davinci

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