alt Hacker NewsUnfortunately this is a very misleading article and headline. I don't doubt the end result - it's useful that it works, but it's not "natively" and, unlike what some people assume, Claude didn't write a driver. It basically used HP's existing proprietary driver in a Linux VM on macOS, and just bridged that to macOS.
It also requires a root launcher that runs code from the user ~/.hp1008 dir, so security is weakened.
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He could have done this with 10-15 minutes of googling instead of spending 4 hours prompting a LLM.
This comment should be pinned, and the fact that a misleading post continues to be on the first page blows my mind.
It's strange, because I have zero doubt in my mind that Claude could 100% genuinely reimplement the driver and port it to actually natively run on macOS, were it prompted that way.
yup, clocked this in just the first few lines of the transcript.
I am sooo tired of this AI generated slop.
For the amount of electricity wasted by the LLM in the data center it would have been more efficient to buy a new printer that works out of the box.
Ah, 2026... When the "tech write up" on page 1 of "Hacker News" is some genius selling an LLM creating a VM as "wrote a driver".
OP should probably add this to his list of accomplishments on LinkedIn...