Hacker News: brovonov

New comment by brovonov in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

brovonov — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:23:57 +0000

Bambu has the slicer (orca, bambu) download a plugin (owned and written by bambu, closed source.) which is what the controversy is about.

New comment by brovonov in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

brovonov — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:19:00 +0000

They had that chance to create proper auth and api for years and many developers and myself have been asking for it. Never happened, and I suspect will never happen.

New comment by brovonov in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

brovonov — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:12:32 +0000

Voron isn't a company, nor are they after a profit, all designs are 100% opensource. Sovol runs on a profit and uses opensource designs to run their products.

New comment by brovonov in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

brovonov — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:50:00 +0000

> At the end, it boils down to money: there are tons of ads on Notepad++ website, so having a competitive offering like "Notepad++ for Mac" threatens that business strategy.

Tons of ads? Really? I had to turn off my adblocker to check, but there is a single ad block on the bottom left. Is that considered a ton?

Bambulab against reverse engineering (OrcaSlicer-bambulab plugin)

brovonov — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:57:18 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jarczakpawel/OrcaSlicer-bambulab

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878153

Points: 9

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New comment by brovonov in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

brovonov — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:55:56 +0000

is there even a reason to use axios?

New comment by brovonov in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

brovonov — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:21:39 +0000

But you won't. Let's be real here. Yeah, lets gently remind ai spammers that they are truly helping but submitting bogus Issues, PRs, bug bounties, or whatever. Just like scammers from fake call centers, they are only in it for the money and hoping one hit sticks.

New comment by brovonov in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

brovonov — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:52:13 +0000

They are not contributors, they are spammers. There is a difference. Do you reply to spammers with friendly greetings?

New comment by brovonov in "A Year of 3D Printing"

brovonov — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:14:20 +0000

The U1, so far, is looking to be a great printer. No idea on long term, but you will not find another toolchanger at that low of a price.

New comment by brovonov in "A Year of 3D Printing"

brovonov — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:10:32 +0000

That is mostly true, PLA is ONLY biodegradable in a facility that can handle that. Your run of the mill recycling center in your city probably can't or won't take your PLA prints.

New comment by brovonov in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"

brovonov — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:52:42 +0000

It seems to be pirated icon packs. see the other comment in this same parent comment.

New comment by brovonov in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"

brovonov — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:50:57 +0000

From the little research I did, they do appear to certain block apps.

https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/blob/b0ecfb84...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/7azc2i/deleted_by_...

https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/issues/940

https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/pull/902

From the dev themselves in that PR

> @dasBiest: It's our business to prevent unauthorized use of iconpacks.

> Just like Substratum is keeping you away from using pirated themes for example.

New comment by brovonov in "We collected 10k hours of neuro-language data in our basement"

brovonov — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:30:34 +0000

Sell it to an ad agency.

New comment by brovonov in "A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat"

brovonov — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:31:25 +0000

It kind of is, a better metric is HDT (Heat Deflection Temperature), and it is based on curve usually load over temp.

New comment by brovonov in "A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat"

brovonov — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:27:26 +0000

Plastics under load have a lower Tg.

New comment by brovonov in "A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat"

brovonov — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:25:12 +0000

Polymaker's ABS is dubious too because it is blended with PETG. They are coming out with a Pro version that has a higher Tg and requires way higher chamber temps to print properly.

New comment by brovonov in "A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat"

brovonov — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:18:03 +0000

Lower, according to the report

"Two samples from the air induction elbow were subjected to testing, using a heat-flux differential scanning calorimeter, to determine their glass transition temperature. The measured glass transition temperature for the first sample was 52.8°C, and 54.0°C for the second sample"

Yeah, they might have used ABS-CF filament, but unless they got it from a good brand that uses good resin and proper printing parameters, the actual Tg will be lower, plus the stress from the vibration/load could have made the part fail if it was not for the heat later in flight.

New comment by brovonov in "Red Alert 2 in web browser"

brovonov — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:18:37 +0000

Yes, because they don't own the assets.

New comment by brovonov in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

brovonov — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:04:09 +0000

Has to be a mix of both.

New comment by brovonov in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

brovonov — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:00:26 +0000

Good thing I already moved away from gh to a selfhosted Forgejo instance.