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Re:Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:50AM (#50286595)
I have a Phrozen SLA printer, and I would actually appreciate it if they integrated their design with the resin formulation more. Sure, it sounds bad to be locked into some material ecosystem, but resins are just not 'plug and play' by default, as filament is in FDM printing.

I just want it to print and not study chemistry & physics before doing anything. Formlabs seems to be able to deliver that.

Re:Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs on Sunday October 25, 2026 @07:07PM (#50236942)
Related work: Trello allows 'aging' for tasks. One can set them to become more transparent over time or turn into stained 'pirate' paper.

https://trello.com/power-ups/55a5d917446f517774210012

Re:The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future on Monday March 09, 2026 @11:58AM (#47310769)
I very key problem is the common narrative that green policies and the EU allegedly caused the downfall of the car industry (-> "Verbrennerverbot").

In reality, a way bigger impact seems to be that the Chinese govt decided to stop buying German cars once they could build their own (which they were always very transparent about).

The problem with this misdiagnosis that it leads to the wrong conclusion to double-down on a obsolete business model that the car industry is, instead of diversifying away from it.

Re:Making niche solutions is the point on Thursday January 29, 2026 @11:20AM (#46812308)
I think that is a fantastic insight that 'Making niche solutions is the point' with 3D printing.

Unfortunately, it is still very hard to _design_ niche solutions. The usability of CAD tools did not really improve at all in the last 20 years..

A big advantage of this technique is that the assembled model is 'isotropic'. If it was printed in one piece, it would be easy to split along the layer lines.

But when printing the plates separately, every face is equally strong.

Great project!

Re:I Designed a Dieter Rams Inspired iPhone Dock on Monday September 23, 2024 @10:54AM (#41626811)
really nice to see well designed, useful 3D printable products.

These kind of designs are essential for 3D printing to graduate from printing baby yodas only. Also, the high-quality photography and documentation helps a lot to go for the 3D print over temu.

Re:Apple introduces M4 chip on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @10:41AM (#40286088)
if only macOS would run on iPad..
Re:Browse Self-Hosted Software on Thursday April 04, 2024 @10:35AM (#39930952)
We just need to figure out how to get a one-click 'install' button on there ;)
> The Apple Vision Pro is the Northstar the VR industry needed, whether we admit it or not

I think that sums it up pretty well. More companies should launch products like that!

Re:Ask HN: When to Start a Business? on Friday February 02, 2024 @11:55AM (#39231018)
There is a cool study that says that the likelihood of your startup suceeding does not peak until your late 50s.

https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...

I think the public debate is so skewed towards young founders because it is so centered around extreme outlier founders and companies.

Since self-driving trucks do not need to rest, they can be also a lot slower while on the road to help with safety.
I'm wondering why there is so little talk about changing road infrastructure to make self-driving easier to pull off.

E.g. dedicated lanes for self driving or hand-off stations where human drivers can take over etc etc.

Amid the massive potential upsides, any reasonable government would invest in measures that turn out to effectivley improve self-drivability of the respective national grid.

This is a cool project that implements role-playing AI:

https://github.com/joonspk-research/generative_agents

Re:Gold Prices Are Hitting Records on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @12:12PM (#38546667)
How can gold and stock prices be at record high at the same time?
TL;DR

15% of Model 3's fail the mandatory audit after 2 years due to 'considerable defects'.

> If anything seeing Figmas success and acquisition will encourage more startups to launch products in theses categories.

this is not how antitrust works at all.

> There is ample evidence of competition

There is?

What I can verify:

To the best of my knowledge, this is the first work that proposes putting a photorealistic, perspective corrected face on a VR headset.

"FrontFace" (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3098279.3098548) is the first work that proposes putting eyes on a display on VR to "lower the communication barrier".

Facebooks paper on their technology is quite amazing: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3450550.3465338

I'm guessing (?) Apple's approach is similar.

Yes, feels awesome, thanks!
no insider knowledge, I just know that the work from facebook cited our work: https://research.facebook.com/blog/2021/08/display-systems-r...

They also add the display that would work with different angles. So it looks like, Apple implemented Meta's research. The timeline could work.

For completeness, there is also another paper "FrontFace" proposing a similar idea that was published around the same time: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3098279.3098548

Adding multiple viewpoints is actually sth Meta first proposed, based on the paper from above:

https://research.facebook.com/blog/2021/08/display-systems-r...

I have to try it out to see whether it's worth it. But since the display can be fairly low-resolution, I don't except that it adds a lot of cost. Weight would be a bigger concern to me..
Re:GNOME 44 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @07:14AM (#35272933)
So many UIs these days try to shove some random idea of a PM into ones face recently E.g. "OneDrive this", "Adobe Cloud that" on just saving a document.

GNOME apps would simply need to show up to become a superior experience in the long term.

Great to see that they do so much more than 'just show up'.

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