Hacker News: f1shy

New comment by f1shy in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

f1shy — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:36:16 +0000

Yes, but not bully the people sharing AGPL code. I would like to see how they do it.

New comment by f1shy in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

f1shy — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:29:58 +0000

I understand your point, but to compete against bambu, I think is necessary. I still find is the best option.

New comment by f1shy in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

f1shy — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:27:41 +0000

We could search in the source, but I’m 99.999% sure it is a PID, because of course has to work in different environments. So I do not think it should be a problem.

New comment by f1shy in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

f1shy — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:23:56 +0000

I don’t know if bambu is easier than Prusa. Bought myself a Prusa core one, having absolutely no idea whatsoever what is 3D printing, plugged in, the included filament in, just as the 10 pages manual says, click click, and I made my first print (no internet connection, no wifi, no registration, no app).

Then I installed the app (open source in github) and started using the “cloud” services. I consider myself pretty stupid with such things, and it was absolutely the easiest thing I’ve done in 10 years.

The price is very high though. But at least you OWN the damn thing.

New comment by f1shy in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

f1shy — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:29:40 +0000

You can say that with manual reveal of photographs, LP collections, a text written with a typewriter.

Is not the end of the world. Is a change.

New comment by f1shy in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

f1shy — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:57:42 +0000

In my experience they DO want more regulation. Regulation that helps them. The automobile’s industry was lobbying for years to have all kinds of things mandatory. They invented lots of standards and pseudo standards. At the end they shoot themselves in the foot.

New comment by f1shy in "America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy"

f1shy — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:21:44 +0000

> This country should be called the Corporate States of America.

Who knows a country in which is different, let me know, please, honestly.

New comment by f1shy in "It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs"

f1shy — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:03:27 +0000

The power of the central part.

New comment by f1shy in "It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs"

f1shy — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:02:02 +0000

oops! Now I read it... reads totally backwards. I meant, moving state is easier as moving between countries in the EU

New comment by f1shy in "It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs"

f1shy — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:36:24 +0000

Still easier to move country inside the EU, as an example.

New comment by f1shy in "It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs"

f1shy — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:35:00 +0000

AFAIK only Swiss and USA have a real federal estate. Good thing.

New comment by f1shy in "An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce"

f1shy — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:46:27 +0000

You can measure all the parameters you want. The question is: does it really matter? I know many doctors, and one of my favorite questions is about stethoscopes: I have unanimously the answer "I could just roll a piece of paper and if the room is quiet enough, I can do my work". My grandpa used one made out of wood, just a cone. Once, I was fascinated by a Littmann, with bluetooth audio, I told a friend doctor, that would be great (thinking about a present) the answer was "That is all hype, I can do with a $2 piece exactly the same". I pointed out the possibility to record the sound, to possibly defense in case of being sued: she laughed out loud, said is unpractical to record everything, would take too much time, and again, just a toy.

New comment by f1shy in "An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce"

f1shy — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:39:31 +0000

And patients. What would you think if the doctor in front of use is using a plastic thingy that seems more come from a doctor-toy-set?

New comment by f1shy in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

f1shy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:22:25 +0000

Neurosymbolic programming

New comment by f1shy in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

f1shy — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:54:10 +0000

Also in Germany, also using exclusively iPhone with carplay. Not perfect, but light years better than google maps.

New comment by f1shy in "Laws of Software Engineering"

f1shy — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:40:20 +0000

I have seen way too often, advocates of SOLID and patterns to have religious arguments: I don’t like it. That being said, I think there is nothing bad in SOLID, as long as treated as principles and not religious dogmas. About patterns, I cannot really say as much positive. They are not bad per-se. But I’ve seen they have made lots of harm. In the gang of 4 book, in the preface, I think, says something like “this list is neither exhaustive, nor complete, and often inadequate” the problem is every single person I know who was exposed to the book, try to hammer every problem into one pattern (in the sense of [1]). Also insist in using the name everywhere like “facade_blabla” IMHO the pattern may be Façade, but putting that through the names of all classes and methods, is not good design.

[1] https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

New comment by f1shy in "Laws of Software Engineering"

f1shy — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:27:52 +0000

I agree. But I have to say, when defining the architecture, there are things known that will be terrible bottlenecks later. They should be avoided. Just as the previous comment, about defining proper indices in a database. Optimization means making something that is already “good” and correct better. There is no excuse to make a half ass, bug ridden shitty software, under the excuse “optimization is for later” that is technical debt generation: 2 very different things.

New comment by f1shy in "Laws of Software Engineering"

f1shy — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:19:04 +0000

That is the giat of the leftpad history, isn’t it?

New comment by f1shy in "Laws of Software Engineering"

f1shy — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:17:47 +0000

It is to me incredible, how many „developers“, even “10 years senior developers” have no idea how to use a dubugger and or profiler. I’ve even met some that asked “what is a profiler?” I hope I’m not insulting anybody, but to me is like going to an “experienced mechanic” and they don’t know what a screwdriver is.

New comment by f1shy in "The seven programming ur-languages (2022)"

f1shy — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:41:48 +0000

Yes, but I still don't understand that explanation. Clearly self is a descendant of Smalltalk, that purified a part; but still is a descendant. At least I understand the "ur-" as indicating linage, more about time as features. For me is still backwards.