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I have no idea how or why this is on HN, but we did print a couple of them to test out, and they work! It is a goofy idea, but there are genuinely some scenarios where it would be useful. We’re thankful to have attracted such a clever and creative community.

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Presumably because it's funny, whimsical, and imaginative.

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Where is the cynism I’m looking for?

Someone say that this is pointless since you can do the same thing by utilizing existing tools like your table!

A table, by definition, is a surface upon which a cup can be placed. A cup holder on the other hand envelops the cup and prevents any sliding movement. This makes a cup holder ideal in moving vehicles.

cupholders seem to have fallen behind starbucks law of cup capacity, and now serve to hold the bottom of the cup in place while the rest of the cup freely rolls/pitches around the center of gravity of the coffee. This seems to be much more effective in tipping.

I really wish cars had more modular docking systems for electronics, drinks, snacks and sunglasses.

Yeah, but then the base module will cost 2000$ (or 20$/month), the cup holder attachment is another 200$ and the manufacturer will sent assassin squads against anyone daring to create compatible attachments or even the printable designs for them...

> cupholders seem to have fallen behind starbucks law of cup capacity

What you're looking for is a "cup holder expander" or "cup holder adapter". Much like the cigarette lighter became a power delivery standard because it's there, so too has the cup holder become a standard, although admittedly quite a bit more nascent.

the Ford Maverick did this an even provides templates for creating your own 3d prints that are compatible with their docking system

https://www.ford.com/support/how-tos/owner-resources/vehicle...

https://www.thedrive.com/news/44276/ford-releases-blueprint-...

It’s also confusing to call it a printable cup holder given “CUPS” on Linux. Probably trademark infringement. Blatant clickbait.

ChatGPT 4.0 will make all forms of coffee holders obsolete in 6 months anyway.

You mean it'll carry the coffee for us?

More like it’ll do all the thinking for us so we can go back to sleep. Coffee itself is obsolete.

It's going to drink all the coffee because it's just like a human brain and needs the caffeine to function decently.

Turns out caffeine was all that was in the way of AGI.

Hate when I wake up in the morning and ChatGPT keeps meowing at me to feed it. It's like it's never eaten before in its life.

> I have no idea how or why this is on HN

That's easy! It was submitted, and subsequently upvoted.

I immediately thought of, maybe you could use it to keep various cables out the way: anyone who does a lot of embedded work knows how busy the desk can get with a debug probe + serial + power + usb device under test, etc, etc

Good lord yes. Though I'd probably want a more dedicated cable organizer, with multiple separated brackets for organization and cutouts for removing and adding and reorganizing cables without unplugging them.

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