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Desmond Morris has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51y797v200o
71•martey•5d ago

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cf100clunk•4d ago
His anthropological views raised more questions than answers, challenging us to ponder just how far modern humankind had progressed from our days of living in caves and hovels, dressed rudimentally in animal hair. His conclusions could be arbitrary, but nevertheless provocative.
Angostura•2h ago
Yes. I wasn’t always convinced he was consistently right, but he was consistently interesting
ultratalk•4h ago
Is this the same guy who wrote Peoplewatching?
ajb•3h ago
It is
palad1n•1h ago
Also Bodywatching.
Invictus0•4h ago
The infamous orgasm episode (NSFW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RkhQsGCXco
Cider9986•1h ago
Watch without signing in to youtube (https://app.ytdown.to/en27/)
ajb•3h ago
RIP. He's better known for his works about people and sex, but I know him from his book "Catwatching", which is a very thoughtful observational study of cats.
ultratalk•2h ago
Is this the same guy who wrote Peoplewatching (Manwatching, I believe, is what it was called earlier)?
dkarl•1h ago
Little tidbit that isn't mentioned in the article: he was a consultant on the film Quest for Fire and developed movement patterns and gestures for the actors.
Pet_Ant•1h ago
“The Naked Ape” is seminal work. When I found it in the bargain bin of used bookstore I was incensed!
hermitcrab•5m ago
"Morris had spent his national service lecturing soldiers in fine arts"

Imagine trying to explain impressionism to some conscript squaddies.

Can you stop beans from making you gassy?

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-reduce-bean-gas-tested-11883862
32•jstrieb•1h ago•7 comments

The Free Universal Construction Kit

https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
189•robinhouston•3d ago•37 comments

1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

https://www.hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/
465•stephen-hill•3d ago•82 comments

The AI Industry Is Discovering That the Public Hates It

https://newrepublic.com/article/209163/ai-industry-discovering-public-backlash
82•chirau•37m ago•53 comments

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you...
90•speckx•5h ago•51 comments

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
505•calcifer•15h ago•297 comments

Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

https://blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/
46•thehappyfellow•4h ago•13 comments

Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp

https://coalton-lang.github.io/mine/
31•varjag•4h ago•1 comments

Desmond Morris has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51y797v200o
72•martey•5d ago•13 comments

Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games

https://github.com/MartinGalway/C64_music
147•ingve•11h ago•18 comments

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/
128•adunk•10h ago•20 comments

GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-bio-bug-bounty/
107•Murfalo•7h ago•87 comments

Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021)

https://parl.ai/projects/params_vs_compute/
39•jxmorris12•1d ago•5 comments

What async promised and what it delivered

https://causality.blog/essays/what-async-promised/
106•zdw•3d ago•101 comments

Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau

https://lute.luau.org/
32•vrn-sn•2d ago•5 comments

Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets

https://getkloak.io/
21•neo2006•2h ago•15 comments

Hokusai and Tesselations

https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/
78•srean•4h ago•13 comments

How Hard Is It to Open a File?

https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/
15•ffin•1d ago•2 comments

Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001824
42•wslh•3d ago•16 comments

A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp

https://github.com/nakagami/grdpwasm
96•mariuz•10h ago•39 comments

Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x

https://blisscast.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/windows-2-gui-wonderland-12a/
65•keepamovin•10h ago•47 comments

America's Geothermal Breakthrough Could Unlock a 150-Gigawatt Energy Revolution

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Americas-Geothermal-Breakthrough-Could-...
25•sleepyguy•2h ago•13 comments

Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay

https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/
251•rbanffy•20h ago•127 comments

North American Millets Alliance(2023)

https://milletsalliance.org/
6•num42•3h ago•2 comments

HEALPix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEALPix
45•hyperific•8h ago•6 comments

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

https://github.com/yuvadm/quantumslop/blob/25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5/URANDOM_DEMO.md
313•pigeons•20h ago•43 comments

Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI

https://victortaelin.github.io/lambench/
118•marvinborner•10h ago•36 comments

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
506•alcazar•1d ago•129 comments

Commenting and approving pull requests

https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/on-commenting-and-approving-pull-requests/
71•jwworth•2d ago•61 comments

Panipat: The rise of the Mughals

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/panipat-rise-mughals
51•Thevet•3d ago•58 comments