Hacker News: shrx

New comment by shrx in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

shrx — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:04:51 +0000

> They're going to move Fable off of the subscription tiers to API-only.

Is this official? When?

New comment by shrx in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

shrx — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:30:27 +0000

Do not print a key fob out of PLA. It will not survive summer car temperatures. A better choice is PETG, or ABS and ASA if you have an enclosed printer that can vent outside.

New comment by shrx in "The One Dollar Counterfeiter"

shrx — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:32:37 +0000

That's weird. Can't think of a legal basis that would allow the bank to refuse it. They have machines that verify it's not counterfeit after all. People regularly pay for used cars with cash here, and I've never heard of anyone refusing a 500€ note.

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

shrx — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:28:18 +0000

> if the printer was also advertised as working (with full functionality) with third party clients

I don't think this was ever the case. But I'm happy to be proven wrong here.

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

shrx — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:43:49 +0000

That is literally what they said:

> I can no longer use OrcaSlicer to interact with my printers (e.g. sync filaments) and start prints remotely.

The remote interaction with the printer goes via their cloud.

> If you tell me my new toaster can send a live video of my bagel to my phone then I am entitled to receive that functionality without being subject to your shitware.

No you aren't. You might be able to use 3rd party clients, but this is never a given. BambuLab owns their cloud servers, they can choose which clients they will allow to use them.

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

shrx — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:34:47 +0000

> This is false. After the authorization-related firmware changes last year LAN mode doesn't allow 3rd party slicers to connect.

I can connect to my P2S in LAN mode with OrcaSlicer just fine (currently using the latest 2.4.0 nightly).

> be able to connect to printers in a different subnet

This is a separate issue, I think even Bambu Studio can't connect to printers in LAN mode on a different subnet.

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

shrx — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:34:06 +0000

The part of the slicer connecting to their cloud IS closed source.

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

shrx — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:31:58 +0000

Why do you feel entitled to use their cloud services with 3rd party applications?

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

shrx — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:21:58 +0000

It can talk to the printer directly if you use "LAN mode". This also work with 3rd party slicers like OrcaSlicer.

New comment by shrx in "Don't hijack my mouse pointer"

shrx — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:09:35 +0000

Try https://dmnsgn.me/blog/from-glsl-to-wgsl-the-future-of-shade...

New comment by shrx in "The One Dollar Counterfeiter"

shrx — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:16:29 +0000

what?

New comment by shrx in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

shrx — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:34:57 +0000

The irony is that I only know about this game through memes like this. I've never seen an actual ad for it anywhere.

New comment by shrx in "Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations"

shrx — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:38:42 +0000

I bought a ~60€ Redragon linear switches keyboard for my office desk to replace the company-provided shitty Logitech, not expecting much, and was very surprised by the quality. So competition is definitely tough.

New comment by shrx in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

shrx — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:37:22 +0000

But it still degrades performance.

New comment by shrx in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

shrx — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:50:15 +0000

Are you saying dropping cache after 1 hour is not intentionally degrading performance?

New comment by shrx in "An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road"

shrx — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:11:55 +0000

I traveled some of the countries along the way last year, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan (by hiking and offroad vehicles). The landscape is beautiful, but be very prepared to survive in the scorching sun and dust in the desert for days without any option to resupply food and water. We met some solo cyclists along the way, I have great respect for those individuals. For example, this is how the main road looks like in some parts of Tajikistan: https://i.imgur.com/MlZauBn.jpeg The traffic on these roads consists mostly of Chinese trucks and an occasional crazy traveler like us. Note how a secondary track emerged along the side of the main road because the original one became so filled with potholes.

New comment by shrx in "The Gemini app is now on Mac"

shrx — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:54:27 +0000

Meanwhile, I still can't use Gemini as my Android Auto assistant.

New comment by shrx in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

shrx — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:30:49 +0000

Can you list some examples? When I lived in Chicago it was quite common for cyclists to shout this on the long lakefront trail, I wonder if that's the case there too.

New comment by shrx in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"

shrx — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:00:03 +0000

> I haven't figured out how to block ads on my phone

Firefox + ublock origin + consent-o-matic saves the day for me.

New comment by shrx in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

shrx — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:16:56 +0000

No such option. Apparently it needs to be allowed by the vendor (Samsung)?