Hacker News: luma

New comment by luma in "Microsoft doubles down on controversial quantum computing claims"

luma — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:50:30 +0000

The key word here is "information". No known quantum effect results in information being transferred faster than the speed of light (which might be more correctly known these days as a the speed limit of information). Entanglement, even at great distance, does not violate this principle as that cannot be effectively used to transfer information.

New comment by luma in "Microsoft Doubles Down on Controversial Quantum Computing Claims"

luma — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:03:56 +0000

No quantum process currently known allows for information transfer faster than the speed of light.

New comment by luma in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

luma — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:49:43 +0000

Flux.ai offers a PCB design solution which is a clear interest for Adafruit. Anyone have any idea what this is about?

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

luma — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:44:46 +0000

What's frustrating is that Prusa isn't too far removed from how Bambu works today. Prusa-Link (the onboard firmware) allows you to do very basic job control but has essentially zero machine control and very little telemetry. All the major functionality is behind their PrusaConnect cloud service, which they've now added a paid tier to, and which they've been promising for years to open source in order to allow print farms to run offline.

I love Prusa printers and all my machines are Prusa, but they really do need to get their software situation sorted because in it's current form, it's somewhat hard to distinguish from the operational reality of Bambu - if I want to use all the features on my XL, I need to send my files to Czechia first.

New comment by luma in "Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet"

luma — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:10:49 +0000

It's also completely blocked for me, thanks for a link I can actually read!

New comment by luma in "Google changes its search box"

luma — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:35:20 +0000

Because way more than three out of five Google results are SEO garbage or sponsored crap. The bar has been set extremely low by Google, a 60% validity rate sounds magical.

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

luma — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:17:08 +0000

Core1, add an INDX if you want multi tool (far more flexible and less waste than the AMS).

New comment by luma in "Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?"

luma — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:56:08 +0000

That'd be extortion, not blackmail. CF did neither thing.

New comment by luma in "The OpenAI Deployment Company"

luma — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:11:50 +0000

Different, this would be a "field engineer", which is pretty common for supporting customers which might have a lot of technical needs around your product. For example, some microcontroller vendors are pretty famous for having poor or non-existent documentation and instead rely on the dude on-site to tell your engineers how everything works.

New comment by luma in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

luma — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:28:52 +0000

Here's a chart of the top 10 professions per 100,000 FTE (basically, per capita): https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-inju...

New comment by luma in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

luma — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:43:59 +0000

Police aren't in the top 10 of most dangerous professions in the USA[1], and when they are injured, it's overwhelmingly the result of traffic accidents.

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t03.htm

New comment by luma in "LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb"

luma — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:26:56 +0000

It falls on its face as soon as they offer to sell that data to someone else, which is exactly what they're doing. Can't have it both ways.

New comment by luma in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

luma — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:33:45 +0000

The example they give in TFA is having the user scan a QR code, presumably from a mobile device.

New comment by luma in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

luma — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:31:29 +0000

And also great reasons for Bun to port themselves elsewhere. If they aren’t allowed to contribute to Zig, there’s very little reason to select Zig moving forward.

New comment by luma in "A desktop made for one"

luma — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:25:51 +0000

How does any of that impact a user who just has a specific task they want to accomplish and who doesn't have a CS degree?

Is it "their" software? Sure, if it meets their needs. What if the AI changes? Who cares, I already have the software. All the what ifs are solved by taking the current code, stuffing into into any AI you like today, and getting the new version.

As a user, this all sounds like a great deal. Devs can continue wringing their hands over code quality and long term support and architecture and preferred framework, meanwhile the user who had an itch got it scratched and didn't need nor care about any of those things.

New comment by luma in "The USB Situation"

luma — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:56:35 +0000

There are a handful of dedicated devices that will read the eMarker, eg https://www.amazon.com/s?k=USB+emarker

A recent HN thread announcing a Mac app that can read them along with discussion on alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972511

New comment by luma in "The USB Situation"

luma — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:19:36 +0000

Most USB C cables do have a label, but it's an electronic one. Desktop and mobile OSes could do a better job of surfacing this information for the user.

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

luma — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:55:39 +0000

Noctua is awesome in a lot of ways, one of them is offering full CAD models: https://www.noctua.at/en/3d-cad-models

New comment by luma in "Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days"

luma — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:55:20 +0000

etsy, mostly for lack of a better option and a lack of desire to self host, deal with taxes, etc.

New comment by luma in "A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU"

luma — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:04:19 +0000

My guess, the article itself is clearly AI authored and there are a fair number of us who don't particularly like the writing style. Further, it implies something about the original human's own valuation of this work - if they decided to let the machine handle it, why should I spend my own time reading what they didn't bother to write?