Hacker News: exitb

New comment by exitb in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

exitb — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:15:21 +0000

I can use the webcam in LAN mode. Just - locally, in the slicer, not the cloud-based app.

New comment by exitb in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

exitb — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:44:35 +0000

It’s like the best you can hope for your small hobby YouTube channel is to graduate to general outrage.

New comment by exitb in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

exitb — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:39:18 +0000

It’s fully understandable to want that and exactly what I use too. It still sucks for people that did want to start their prints locally and control them over the app.

New comment by exitb in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

exitb — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:23:22 +0000

Some time ago the printers were able to communicate over both cloud and local protocols. Then, in a firmware update, they created distinct modes for those. You can still use the printers with OrcaSlicer, but in a mode that prevents being controlled by cloud too.

New comment by exitb in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

exitb — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:38:24 +0000

Notably, only five years have passed between last Russian solders leaving Poland and the country joining NATO. Quite a speedrun.

New comment by exitb in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

exitb — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:22:04 +0000

But would it be more wasteful than shipping a parcel with broken equipment?

New comment by exitb in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

exitb — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:28:24 +0000

Also, at some point someone will figure out how to reliably produce non-smelly LLM replies.

New comment by exitb in "The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness"

exitb — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:31:37 +0000

> Consciousness is an illusion. It is the software telling itself something.

An illusion is a misinterpretation, which implies an observer. Who’s the observer then?

New comment by exitb in "Coding Models Are Doing Too Much"

exitb — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:26:51 +0000

As mentioned in the article, prompting for minimal changes does help. I find GPT models to be very steerable, but it doesn’t mean much when you take your hands of the wheel. These type of issues should be solved at planning stage.

New comment by exitb in "Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes"

exitb — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:46:49 +0000

The average time before a car NEEDS a replacement part to run must be at least a few years. That's a different situation from flipping a switch to turn all connected cars off.

New comment by exitb in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

exitb — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:49:32 +0000

That’s true. It doesn’t even have to be just „anyone” as they sell compute module upgrades themselves. The thing it though, the old ThinkPads are already here, readily available. It’s still more environmentally conscious to get one every few years instead of buying a new compute module.

New comment by exitb in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

exitb — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:23:42 +0000

It's an interesting concept, but perhaps a bit financially and environmentally wasteful, when you can get a 10 year old ThinkPad for 10% of the price that will perform roughly as well as this one. We don't need to bring more low-powered laptops into this world.

New comment by exitb in "Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin"

exitb — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:51:52 +0000

Was there anything resembling tourism in 300 BC?

New comment by exitb in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

exitb — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:03:14 +0000

It's such an underrated advantage of open source operating systems that if you like some bit of software, you'll likely be able to use it for decades to come. Even a core bit of software like a window manager. I grew to hate how you need to conform to someone's whim at Apple or Microsoft, or else you get locked out of new features.

New comment by exitb in "Peter Steinberger – WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send"

exitb — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:04:09 +0000

It strikes me as odd that we've got so many agent harnesses, orchestrators, sandboxes, yet no one made a communicator for AIs yet.

New comment by exitb in "The AI Layoff Trap"

exitb — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:53:01 +0000

Having large amounts of people with unfulfilled needs is not exactly a novel idea.

New comment by exitb in "Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT"

exitb — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:42:49 +0000

Teaching the user how to solve problems instead of solving them outright.

New comment by exitb in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

exitb — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:41:21 +0000

They do control the content on the notification. It's a bit odd to put the sensitive text in the notification only to recommend disabling it at the system level.

New comment by exitb in "Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming"

exitb — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:56:11 +0000

There are also drop-in replacements for the unlit screens of genuine units.

New comment by exitb in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

exitb — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:38:01 +0000

Notably, up until now Pro had 6x usage of Plus. So the title is only slightly misleading.

On the other hand, the benchmark of Plus usage seems to be to be all over the place, so it’s difficult to say now how does the usage compare to the old Pro.