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Claude Code teaching macOS to natively print to the HP Laser 1008a (kuber.studio)
130 points by amrrs 44 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Unfortunately this is a very misleading post. 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.


Can you please not copy-paste comments on HN? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353104)

It lowers signal-noise ratio and makes merging threads a pain.




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