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New comment by bicx in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

bicx — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:37:08 +0000

I had been considering getting a Bambu printer precisely for this reason. I had gotten into 3d printing in the reprap era, before selling it off due to lack of space. I don’t really want to get back into that constant calibration and test prints every time the ambient temp or humidity changes a few percentage points. Not to mention the painstaking initial setup. I just want to design and print, not become a 3d printer technician again.

New comment by bicx in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

bicx — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:19:50 +0000

Greg Egan is a legend

New comment by bicx in "Can we code our way out of gentrification?"

bicx — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:51:44 +0000

Plans like this would be interesting to me if I believed it were possible to get all the necessary parties to agree.

New comment by bicx in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

bicx — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:23:28 +0000

This is really cool and addictive!

New comment by bicx in "Teaching Claude Why"

bicx — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:42:30 +0000

Side note: Anthropic has done well at achieving an immediately-recognizable art style.

New comment by bicx in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

bicx — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:49:29 +0000

I think if Walter White were the type to need ChatGPT to figure out meth production, he would have just spent the whole series in that RV, getting nowhere, and accidentally blowing himself up.

New comment by bicx in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

bicx — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:04:15 +0000

Sorry, this is not a good argument. It's sad that some skills are devalued when so many have invested years into them, but it is a net win when more people can create something without having to become an expert. Experts don't deserve to have a moat built around them. I say this as a software engineer with 16yoe who is dealing with the same challenges.

New comment by bicx in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

bicx — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:35:35 +0000

They already have corporate sponsorships from Google, Meta, Nvidia, and other big companies. Anthropic is just joining the list. This is actually good for Blender.

New comment by bicx in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

bicx — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:33:35 +0000

Not sure why this is getting backlash. Just look at https://fund.blender.org. Other corporate sponsors are Google, Meta, Nvidia, Netflix, even Adidas.

This just means more support for a major OSS project.

New comment by bicx in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

bicx — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:18:25 +0000

Going to have a chat with our JSON Engineers to see what our best move might be. It might be worth the adware if we can keep JSONing.

New comment by bicx in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

bicx — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:39:08 +0000

I built an internal company MCP that uses Google Workspace auth and injects a mix of guidance (disguised as tools) on how we would like certain tasks to be accomplished via Claude as well as API-like capabilities for querying internal data and safely deploying small apps internally.

I’d really love to get away from the SSE MCP endpoints we use, as the Claude desktop app can get really finicky about disconnects. I thought about distributing some CLIs with Skills instead. But, MCP can be easily updated with new tools and instructions, and it’s easy to explain how to add to Claude for non-technical people. I can’t imagine trying to make sure everyone in my company had the latest skill and CLI on their machine.

New comment by bicx in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)"

bicx — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:53:31 +0000

Honey Homes | Early Engineer (Full-Stack / AI) | REMOTE (US) | Full-time

We make homeownership effortless by pairing homeowners with a dedicated handyman and building the software that runs the home.

We're a small team with a product that's growing quickly, and we're backed by top investors. If you like building end-to-end systems with real-world impact, come join us.

Please get in touch at: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Honey%20Homes/b3cdd2cd-ffde-41f6-b8...

New comment by bicx in "I quit. The clankers won"

bicx — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:23:39 +0000

When they invented cars (and cars became popular and affordable), people did stop walking everywhere. Jogging wasn’t popularized until the 1970s, when we all realized we needed to be intentional with fitness in our car-based society.

New comment by bicx in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

bicx — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:54:16 +0000

No to Palantir in Europe

New comment by bicx in "Zero Days: Electric Motorcycles Are a Security Nightmare"

bicx — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:09:07 +0000

I recently started riding a motorcycle in the last 2 years. One of my favorite aspects of motorcycles are how easy it is to find a solid 30-year-old bike that still runs well and costs less than $5k. You can still buy parts for it… 30 _years_ later. Nothing else in my life shares that quality. I can continue repairing them and keep them running, which is a fun little hobby.

I really want to like the idea of electric motorcycles, but I have very low confidence that they would be built for the long term. Having to worry about software and security makes me even less excited.

New comment by bicx in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

bicx — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:55:50 +0000

Anthropic is the leading enterprise LLM provider. All they have to do is keep building a best-performing product, charge what they need, and keep costs as far down as possible. If my company knew there were an LLM 1.5x as good as Opus, they would be willing to pay 3x the cost. If it were being sold by Anthropic, they’d be even more likely to pay, since we could easily keep our same tooling.

New comment by bicx in "Parents are refusing routine preventive care for newborns"

bicx — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:30:54 +0000

“We do treat many, to catch a few” is not a secret though. It’s the basis for maintaining herd immunity via vaccination. I get being concerned about vaccines in newborns, but I have yet to hear a compelling argument that vaccines don’t play a significant role in disease eradication that we now enjoy.

New comment by bicx in "Put the zip code first"

bicx — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:01:55 +0000

This 1000 times. I’ve tried implementing what OP has mentioned, and quickly learned it isn’t possible. A city can also exist in multiple zip codes. And there can be multiple cities with the same name in the same state. So, to be safe, you have to enter city, state, and zip.

New comment by bicx in "US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide"

bicx — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:41:20 +0000

It means that if we cut off or discourage immigration, we can’t count on non-native citizens to continue boosting our numbers. So, we have to look at the native-born stats to get an idea of our future.

New comment by bicx in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

bicx — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:13:59 +0000

It’s hard to compare, honestly. Last year, my PM didn’t have the AI tools to do any of this, and engineers were spread thin. Now, the PM (with a specialized Claude Code environment) has the enthusiasm of a new software engineer and the product instincts of a senior PM.