Hacker News: filcuk

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

filcuk — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:20:11 +0000

You'd do well to avoid them if you want to own your printer forever. I have 3 different Prusa printers, few of which have gone through several upgrades, and I love working with them (and not on them, as I'mnot the tinkering type).

New comment by filcuk in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

filcuk — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:22:19 +0000

That's pretty simple - the chosen display is best for core usage. Cleay visible in bright sun or dark, sharp angles, easy on the battery. For anything else, there's a HDMI out isn't there.

New comment by filcuk in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

filcuk — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:05:27 +0000

BW. I don't think colour would do much, as the screen is 250x122. Battery may depend on what you can find, but the one I have should last several weeks (still testing). I started on a tiny LiPo I ripped from my cat's floppy fish toy.

To give more info here, it uses Heltec Wireless Paper, which is a self-contained unit and just needs a battery added.

New comment by filcuk in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

filcuk — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:46:13 +0000

I'm using one of those devices with a tiny eink screen... as a pocket ebook reader. Sorry for the bait. Fun and easy project though, lookup Pala one if you're interested and dm me for improved firmware (restrictive license)

New comment by filcuk in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

filcuk — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:23:39 +0000

The latest UUID (7?) Uses half random gen, half timestamp. This not only makes it sortable by creation, but would also make a collision like this impossible.

New comment by filcuk in "Wacli – WhatsApp CLI"

filcuk — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:27:19 +0000

Who mentioned marketing? It's used for package tracking, order updates, bookings and so on where I live.

New comment by filcuk in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

filcuk — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:41:23 +0000

Because it has a legitimate use. As anything, the tools will be abused by malicious actors

New comment by filcuk in "Struggling to heat your home? How about 500 Raspberry Pi units?"

filcuk — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:50:06 +0000

Pure heating doesn't generate any work beside just heating. This is an interesting and a rather futuristic concept.

New comment by filcuk in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

filcuk — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:44:30 +0000

Having the tree easy to filter doesn't matter if it returns hundreds of commits you have to sift through for no reason.

New comment by filcuk in "The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer"

filcuk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:53:17 +0000

Which one of your friends can host an mp physics heavy game with a number of low-latency high-resolution video streams? I would estimate the average answer to be zero.

New comment by filcuk in "Poor Man's Polaroid"

filcuk — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:09:54 +0000

Funny, it's not two days that I've published what I called 'we have Polaroid at home' https://www.printables.com/model/1622259-14mm-label-tape-pic...

Note it's just a 3D printable stand for tiny printer labels (16mm wide). It was a literal 5 minute project but I liked the retro and restrictive aesthetic enough to share..

Such printer as shown is an absolute bargain at £15

New comment by filcuk in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

filcuk — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:20:36 +0000

I can't say this is exactly what you're after, but this article is really interesting https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html

Similar to what the author describes, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of this information is generally not public.

New comment by filcuk in "Open Infrastructure Map"

filcuk — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:20:24 +0000

First thing that caught my eye. Apparently the reason is to make use of stronger, more consistent winds on open sea.

New comment by filcuk in "You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here"

filcuk — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:50:43 +0000

If it's an individual, it could be as simple as portfolio cred ('look, I found and helped fix a security flaw in this program that's on millions of devices ')

New comment by filcuk in "D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders"

filcuk — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:18:55 +0000

Thanks for sharing. Looking at the first section- official mermaid playground supports both ui and text editing. It's been a life changer.

New comment by filcuk in "Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager"

filcuk — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:46:20 +0000

Don't use Google then.

New comment by filcuk in "Show HN: Windows 7 GUI for the web"

filcuk — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:41:47 +0000

Everything new builds on top of the old.

New comment by filcuk in "The Fairphone (Gen. 6)"

filcuk — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:37:46 +0000

It is 50mp camera still, otherwise you would not be able to increase quality by averaging those pixels. I dont think anyone need 15000px noisy poor quality image over standard high res with good quality

New comment by filcuk in "PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods"

filcuk — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:41:57 +0000

Teflon is typically not the issue, it's very non-reactive and non-sticky (duh), meaning it just passes through. Attaching such material to metal takes some serious chemistry, though.

New comment by filcuk in "3D printable 6" f/5 compact travel telescope model"

filcuk — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 10:37:16 +0000

That can be a bit misleading, I feel. It depends on how well the layers are fused together, post-processing, or even the orientation of the print. At best, it can be nearly as strong as a water bottle, but I wouldn't expect it to be.