Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app

Re:Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription... by iterateoften on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:33PM (#50473818)

Now think about a future where even asking gets you a refusal and silently put on a list. A future lawsuit could even force them to submit historical chats as evidence for things that people have written or are writing now that they think they are getting away with.

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Re:Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription... by jsLavaGoat on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:38PM (#50473902)

Right and at first people won't mind, but eventually they will not be able to help themselves enshittifying. Which is why I'm big on open weight models. I hope in 2031 there's a giant Mac mini sitting in my office running one.

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Re:Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription... by onefiftymike on Thursday November 12, 2026 @07:01PM (#50476244)

Would a giant Mac Mini just be a regular mac?

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Re:Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription... by shermantanktop on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:54PM (#50477523)

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Re:Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription... by xp84 on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:11AM (#50484691)

Clearly you don’t know Apple naming. It’s be a Mac Mini Pro Max Extreme.

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Re:Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription... by elephanlemon on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:32AM (#50485007)

I hope that good hardware is available sooner than locked down hardware.

From the Jensen thread:

> I hope this won't change NVIDIA's refusal to block inference for unsigned and registered open-models in the firmware of modern GPUs. Anthropic and others are pushing hard on this. First the hardware export ban, eventually the software one via hardware-enforced execution controls like IETF hinted at

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