Hacker News: xeromal

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

xeromal — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:27:18 +0000

I own a H2C and have been a huge fan of bambu for a few years, full disclosure.

I don't really see why everyone is up in arms about this. You are able to print in LAN mode or directly through USB drives without going through bambus servers.

Their slicer is open source but it downloads a plugin once you launch it if you choose to which is closed sourced that interacts with their APIs.

Someone reverse engineered the plug-in and put it into orca slicer and then claimed that the plugin should have been GPLed to begin with which I find dubious. I don't really see it being much different than downloading closed drivers on Ubuntu but I'm also not a open source lawyer.

To me, the problem with all of this is that it seems strange to want the plugin when bambu will just shut off their resources to unsigned versions of the network plugin if the orca slicer dev got their way.

I'm open to being convinced but I just don't think the cross-section of people who want this would actually want prints going through bambus cloud so this effort really feels vain.

It also feels like bad framing as well because every post I see about this thing really tries to blur the line and claim this plugin and orca slicer are one and the same.

New comment by xeromal in "Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan"

xeromal — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:37:10 +0000

Here's another interesting one. I think they cut a scene from a movie too.

https://youtu.be/Ozz8uxW733Q?t=81

New comment by xeromal in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

xeromal — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:24:51 +0000

Agreed. I make decent money as a software engineer but I've probably flow 50+ times with Spirit. Like you said, they are predictable and reliable. What I appreciated about their staff is that they were extremely friendly but also capable of putting entitled people in their place. Oftentimes on AA and United, assholes got their way but on Spirit, they squashed it fast.

The only people surprised by Spirit were people who don't read warning labels and then you should only be surprised once. Heck, I paid 3$ for coffee on spirit but they would gladly bring refills and were proactive about almost like a restaurant. On AA and United, you usually had to go up and ask.

On top of that, you could get the big front seat (tm) which wasn't first class but pretty good about 150$ if you waited until your flight to bid. I got it a bunch and it came with free snacks and drinks and it was much cheaper than buying business

I'm gonna miss it.

New comment by xeromal in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

xeromal — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:22:28 +0000

My github is littered with projects dating back to when I started as a dev in 2012. I'd just got burned out before completing them

New comment by xeromal in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

xeromal — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:20:22 +0000

Thanks for sharing!

New comment by xeromal in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

xeromal — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:33:53 +0000

Sounds like the massage moved his intestines around

New comment by xeromal in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

xeromal — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:33:59 +0000

I'll trust someone who has an account since 2018 vs 71 days ago. Especially when your name already indicates you're biased.

New comment by xeromal in "The Classic American Diner"

xeromal — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:19:59 +0000

I'd say a waffle house is a better chain if you're in the lower Southeast. Much closer to a true diner experience

New comment by xeromal in "The Classic American Diner"

xeromal — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:19:30 +0000

Do they serve hashbrowns?

New comment by xeromal in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"

xeromal — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:44:44 +0000

I think his point was made regardless of his mistake

New comment by xeromal in "Where did my taxes go?"

xeromal — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:26:05 +0000

Is the amount proportional to the per capita income of the respective countries?

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

xeromal — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:59:54 +0000

Not sure about this one but Gemini's prompt was exposed by Gemini itself

New comment by xeromal in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

xeromal — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:40:06 +0000

One of my favorite pastimes. There's a facebook group I'm in that has a member that ran over some old plastic part of his car that people pay good money for and the amount of chaos it caused in the group was indescribable. I watch the video anytime I need a good laugh

New comment by xeromal in "Microsoft PhotoDNA scanning problem"

xeromal — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:58:03 +0000

It's his face

New comment by xeromal in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

xeromal — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:24:55 +0000

Is that a problem? Seems like a fair strategy. lol

New comment by xeromal in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

xeromal — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:34:33 +0000

Why would Iran give the US fees?

New comment by xeromal in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

xeromal — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:31:58 +0000

Almost like a seeking flak shell. I had no idea.

New comment by xeromal in "Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission"

xeromal — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:20:09 +0000

Sometimes we need to disconnect from the internet and realize we can't solve all the world's problems. The best thing you can do is solve things in the communities you are in.

The entire world's problems is too much for one human.

New comment by xeromal in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

xeromal — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:55:49 +0000

I don't think I'll ever not get chills when watching a crewed launch. Godspeed!

New comment by xeromal in "I quit. The clankers won"

xeromal — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:57:54 +0000

How much of software programmer work is interesting? A fraction of a percent? I'd argue most of us including most startups work on things that help make businesses money and that's pretty "boring" work.