In every Bambu thread lately the assumption is that these battles are about regaining local access, but this whole battle started over trying to get Bambu Network cloud access back into OrcaSlicer.
This is the first three lines of the FULU fork of OrcaSlicer from Louis Rossmann:
> This version of OrcaSlicer restores full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers.
> You are not limited to LAN only.
> It works over the internet just like before, through BambuNetwork, with full functionality for normal use and printing.
Reading the comment sections are confusing because so many people without Bambu printers have assumed the battle is going the other way, with users fighting to not use Bambu’s cloud servers.
Your comment is close to getting to the root of why the arguments are getting weird: The Chinese government isn’t interested in scooping up all of the trinkets being printed. Anyone using a Bambu printer for anything sensitive was already using LAN mode or SD card for printing. The users fighting for this wanted to go back to sending their prints through the cloud for convenience.
> Anyone using a Bambu printer for anything sensitive was already using LAN mode or SD card for printing
I'd like to just highlight that this may soon no longer be (legally) possible thanks to state legislation. At least in California, see: https://eff.org/3DPrintCA
I encourage folks to share this and the NY campaigns (eff.org/3DPrintNY), as this new surveillance does put people/industries relying on 3D printers at risk
This is worth pursuing for anyone with the symptoms.
However please do it with a reputable doctor, preferably associated with an established institution. Watch out for some of the specialty clinics and independent practice doctors who treat apnea like a cash cow.
Sleep study scoring is theoretically set by strict rules, but in practice there can be differences between operators and clinics. Some clinics use this to their advantage to push more treatments and equipment and they’ll do it in ways that are most profitable for themselves. If they can’t get you scored high enough on the first sleep study they’ll pressure you to keep coming back for more studies or in some cases to start paying out of pocket after your insurance company starts refusing so many repeat studies with negative results.
The better clinics are not afraid to tell someone they don’t have apnea or that they likely won’t benefit from PAP machine. They also aren’t shy about telling someone that weight management can be the best long term solution for weight-related cases, whereas some clinics won’t mention it because they want you coming back to them for never ending management.
Multiple opinions won't necessarily help unless you research first. I'm not sure about other disciplines but in orthodontics for example there is a very definite split between whether they are "airway focused" or mainstream. I saw 6 or 7 different doctors, dentists and orthos in the UK over a period of about 10 years and none of them saw anything wrong with my jaws. Saw an airway focused ortho and a surgeon specialising in maxillo-mandibular advancement surgery and they recommended aggressive surgery. I agree with them, mainstream medicine is ignoring an epidemic of jaw underdevelopment because it challenges current practices in orthodontics.
We already had that. Memory prices got really low for a while. If there are too many companies with too much capacity they’re forced to race to the bottom until one of them collapses and reduces supply.
Yup, see my previous boom-and-bust comment. In particular vendors will remember the price crash in 2022/23, the industry only recovered once the AI mania set in. There'd been another boom around 2020/21 when supply-chain panics meant hyperscalers bought up huge inventories, and just before that another low around 2019. So the current situation is standard pre-bust behaviour.
We go through this with every startup cycle. Startups are not expected to be profitable because they’re spending so much money on growth and R&D. The concept of running a business in an intentionally unprofitable state is confusing to those who don’t understand startup funding.
The weird thing is that so many people believe that inference is unprofitable. There are large open weights models that companies run at a profit while charging far less than what OpenAI and Anthropic charge. Deepseek V4 just made their 75% off deal permanent and it was already very cheap.
Yes, you have to consider costs of training the models, but as usage grows it’s going to become a smaller and smaller part of the business.
I think we will see some data center businesses and AI companies blow up, but I think the people expecting the entire AI scene to blow up because prices quadruple are going to be disappointed.
I wonder how much of this reasoning will make sense in the future. How much of the way you are thinking is based on the past curves reality worked before? Are you taking into account exponential acceleration? I guess abundance will flow in such a way that the idea of debt will be a thing of the past.
> You have no idea whether those companies are making a profit.
I doubt the various providers on OpenRouter are benevolently operating at a loss because they’re so generous.
You can also calculate the cost to run these models yourself. They are open weight and the hardware required to run them is not a secret. They can be modeled and many have done the business modeling.
I’m always surprised at how many Hacker News commenters are unaware that a lot of financial modeling and analysis has been done on these companies and models. It’s naive to think the the hottest topic in tech has not already been dissected and analyzed by the finance industry at every level.
Selling a brands new project at a loss to gain market share or to compete with other companies doing it because you hope you can outlast them isn’t being benevolent or generous.
If you want to link to a specific cost analysis that was performed by someone without a vested interest in generating hype then do it and we’ll discuss that.
Because what you wrote sounds an awful lot like “let me tell you a lot of very smart people are saying it.”
GPU depreciation cycles are slowing down a lot. A big chunk of frontier model inference is still being run on Hopper-era GPUs because anything more recent is heavily bottlenecked and it makes more sense to use the newer stuff for training,
It’s a brand new market that they want to claim a share of. I doubt they would be making much money of selling deepseek inference right now even if it were profitable, so why not throw sum subsidies at it for a little while in the hope that you are one of the big names left standing once everyone runs out of money.
I don’t know enough to be certain either way. But I will say that I know that Amazon has operated certain product segments at a loss before. Whether that’s with direct price subsidies or credits is irrelevant in the face of a new product with hype unlike anything I’ve ever seen in over 20 years in the industry. It’s highly plausible in the face of this absolute mania and FOMO that Amazon is operating open source inference at a loss to gain market share. They might think that inference prices will drop in the future.
They might be panicking because they don’t have good models of their own. Or they might just be price matching other open source inference providers. They have cut prices to keep up with competition many times over the years.
Whether they are doing it or not, you don’t know they aren’t, and it’s plausible that they are. So the claim that starts with “we know that people are making a profit selling open source inference at X price therefore Y” is unfounded.
> I don't recall such a massive rupture in opinions about modern technology.
When I was young I ran into a number of adults who refused to use e-mail. They thought it was a disgrace, a fad, or useless. They hated being forced to write emails and tried to force everything into being a phone call or a meeting.
Back then changes happened more gradually.
It took a long time for technologies like cell phones and email to permeate. AI went from a novelty to being the only topic in tech overnight by comparison.
> Even fight over blockchain and NFTs looks minuscule compared to AI.
Blockchain and NFTs were a useless sideshow. Their investors and hodlers were trying to force them into places they weren’t useful, but you could ignore them and your life wouldn’t be any different.
AI is infiltrating tech jobs whether you like it or not.
Outside of tech and email jobs AI isn’t as big of a talking point. I talk to construction contractors and some people in other physical jobs who are positive about it. They don’t see any threat to their job but they’ve found a lot of ways to use it for things like helping with translations and quickly searching for advice.
If you actually try and use frontier models with basic harnessing and skills setup, you can’t seriously make this claim. Agentic coding is getting extremely good when you take time to properly setup an environment for an agent to work in.
Libraries pay higher rates for ebooks than the retail price. They have to renew the license. A publisher can choose not to license their ebooks to a library if they want. Each license can only be lent to one person at a time and there are usually time limits.
In other words, it's completely different in every way.
> Data can't be owned in the first place. We can debate the merits of copyright but it's not a property right.
This is factually incorrect. I don’t know if you’re unaware of the law or introducing your own beliefs about what it should be, but this is not how the law works.
I think it’s funny how much this battle has been contorted since it started.
This fight started because someone added Bambu Cloud support back into OrcaSlicer because it’s what users wanted.
These are the first 3 lines of Louis Rossman’s fork’s README:
> This version of OrcaSlicer restores full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers.
> You are not limited to LAN only.
> It works over the internet just like before, through BambuNetwork, with full functionality for normal use and printing.
Yet reading all of the comments on HN you would be left with the impression that Bambu was fighting to force everyone to use their cloud service.
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