Inventiveness. Decision for action. A startup. Not following or depending on big business to make what you want, Imagination. Design and production. Sounds like hacker news to me!

Let's hope it's not a Start-up, or if it is, it's a honest 501c3.

My father went in for a routine hernia operstion. He had great insurance. Covered 100% of every overpriced procedure.

He was recovering at home, and was just going through the bill for no reason.

He noticed $690 for "Psychological Positivity therapy".

That explained the Teddy Bear, and flowers, none of us sent him.

Thankfully in the UK we have the national health service.

Thank you. This guy is filling a spot of supply and demand where profit is unlikely to be made. So it ends up in the public benefit/non-profit art segment.

He uses 3D printers to create unique designs that would otherwise be economically unviable. Seems pretty hackerish to me.

3D printers have been in the public’s hands for about a decade now. They aren’t exactly new or interesting technology and the use here isn’t particularly novel or interesting.

If you feel that way, I suggest you imitate Wittgenstein and pass over the article in silence.

Everything in your statement is false.

Most people don’t have the skills required to benefit from owning or operating a 3D printer, so most people don’t have anything to do with them.

They are still an emerging technology, with new applications reported steadily. Still, they are very interesting to most people, because 3D printing is basically wizardry in their eyes.

This use case is definitely novel, it even says so on the article. It may not be interesting to you, but your strong reaction reveals that you are actually angry at the feelings provoked by the article, and it might do you good to take a moment to analyse WHY you are having that kind of emotional reaction.

You could make the same argument for many of the react SSR articles which still make it here

Not the main reason most of us come to HN, but given the last year or so, many are ok with the occasional feel good story.

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

Why is this comment on hacker news?