ND Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO (www.cgchannel.com)
379 points by cma 176 days ago | 79 comments on HN ~lite vlite-2.0
Summary ~lite
Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO, passing roles to Francesco Siddi and new leadership team.
Lite evaluation by llama-4-scout-wai-psq · editorial channel only · no per-section breakdown available
Longitudinal · 5 evals
+1 0 −1 HN
Audit Trail 23 entries
2026-03-05 11:50 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.280 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-05 11:50 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.28 (Mild positive) 0.00
2026-03-05 11:45 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.280 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-05 11:45 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.28 (Mild positive)
2026-03-05 11:36 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.120 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-05 11:36 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: +0.12 (Mild positive)
2026-02-28 08:25 eval_success Light evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-02-28 08:25 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: 0.00 (Neutral)
reasoning
Editorial stance on human rights is neutral
2026-02-28 08:25 rater_validation_warn Light validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 0W 1R - -
2026-02-28 08:14 eval_success Light evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-02-28 08:14 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral)
reasoning
Neutral tech news report
2026-02-28 08:14 rater_validation_warn Light validation warnings for model llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0W 1R - -
2026-02-26 06:53 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO - -
2026-02-26 06:44 credit_exhausted Credit balance too low, retrying in 269s - -
2026-02-26 06:39 credit_exhausted Credit balance too low, retrying in 293s - -
2026-02-26 06:10 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO - -
2026-02-26 06:08 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO - -
2026-02-26 05:59 credit_exhausted Credit balance too low, retrying in 298s - -
2026-02-26 05:54 credit_exhausted Credit balance too low, retrying in 352s - -
2026-02-26 05:45 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO - -
2026-02-26 05:41 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO - -
2026-02-26 05:32 credit_exhausted Credit balance too low, retrying in 353s - -
2026-02-26 05:29 credit_exhausted Credit balance too low, retrying in 339s - -