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New comment by cameronbrown in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

cameronbrown — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:53:18 +0000

> I also wonder if they are glad they published it

https://youtu.be/ue9MWfvMylE

Jeff Dean is asked this question by Geoffrey Hinton at 37:35 - might worth watching. Overall an interesting video.

New comment by cameronbrown in "We accepted surveillance as default"

cameronbrown — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:54:09 +0000

https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/investigation-into-googles-priv...

Disclosure: I worked on Privacy Sandbox.

New comment by cameronbrown in "Rewatch: Stargate SG-1 (2019)"

cameronbrown — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 14:05:55 +0000

Try watching until Season 2 if you can. The show got much better and it's honestly a shame it was cancelled when it just got good.

On Digital Gardens

cameronbrown — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 17:09:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cameronbrown.co.uk/~www/posts/digitalgarden.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29811688

Points: 1

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New comment by cameronbrown in "Stripe is kick-starting market for carbon removal"

cameronbrown — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:54:36 +0000

The best carbon capture technology is to plant trees. As in, billions of trees per year, which is carbon negative only if the net number of trees is growing. Maybe even get creative on the biology side of things to make them easier to plant in harsh environments.

New comment by cameronbrown in "Ask HN: How do you validate your startup idea when you've no distribution?"

cameronbrown — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 15:52:58 +0000

Good luck!

New comment by cameronbrown in "Ask HN: How do you validate your startup idea when you've no distribution?"

cameronbrown — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 19:54:25 +0000

As other people have mentioned, landing pages + waitlists aren't the best nowadays. I do think a better way to get traction is to go and find 1-2 customers who will work closely with you to build a product. You mention this is for creators, so if possible, leverage their follower base to drive viral growth.

New comment by cameronbrown in "Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources"

cameronbrown — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 11:36:27 +0000

Far easier to develop a culture of using something physical like yubikeys - over flimsy cardboard QR codes. The key metaphor makes a lot more sense that way, too.

New comment by cameronbrown in "GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces"

cameronbrown — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:34:53 +0000

I think a lot of these things are less important by the day though. Are VPNs or advanced security software even necessary if everything is in Notion/Google Docs and something like Codespaces is being used?

New comment by cameronbrown in "GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces"

cameronbrown — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:30:40 +0000

(Opinions are my own.)

It used to be entirely custom, but is currently being re-based on VSCode. Overall very similar feel to Codespaces, just tailed for how Google works.

New comment by cameronbrown in "Show HN: Visualizing a Codebase"

cameronbrown — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 22:24:06 +0000

Is there anything like this, but for visualising the connections between git commits, files, GitHub issues, maybe even classes etc...?

New comment by cameronbrown in "What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS"

cameronbrown — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 06:49:36 +0000

Craigslist has been utterly disrupted by FB Marketplace where I live, unfortunately.

New comment by cameronbrown in "What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS"

cameronbrown — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 02:56:40 +0000

Real estate and job listings, for one.

New comment by cameronbrown in "What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS"

cameronbrown — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 02:51:09 +0000

> email subscriptions to RSS for example, or perhaps even the other way around

There's actually quite a few powerful services to do this. I made a service called http://feedsub.com to do this a couple years ago. I'd also recommend http://mailbrew.com which has a nice digest format.

I think there's a lot of value in RSS as an underlying data layer for the web, and I think it's criminally underused on the consumption side nowadays.

For example, I'd very much like to see blogrings make a comeback, and there's probably room for a website community driven entirely by mailing lists and one of these RSS-to-email tools.

New comment by cameronbrown in "Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people"

cameronbrown — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 19:13:59 +0000

Awesome stuff. A couple years ago I built my own bespoke service (which I won't plug here) to do exactly this, but in a generic way. In retrospect, it would've been far more useful to build around this idea of following online creators, rather than letting people figure out the use cases on their own.

Have you thought about expanding this beyond just the people here? There are more casual use cases like following specific creators across Twitter/YT/Patreon are also be valuable imo.

New comment by cameronbrown in "Astronomers push for global debate on giant satellite swarms"

cameronbrown — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 22:32:07 +0000

> Could one see a table-sized satellite 200 miles away?

We could see many of them with just eyesight when they first went up. Proper instruments are definitely going to pick that up.

New comment by cameronbrown in "Canonical turned a profit, back above 500 employees"

cameronbrown — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 18:58:01 +0000

I would challenge the assertion that Android hasn't had an impact on software support for Linux.

For example, most game engines and hundreds of pieces of middleware are generally supporting Linux now (site note: middleware was IME the worst part about porting games to Linux, only second to the graphics stack), even if just for Android games. Vulcan rendering is widely supported for a similar reason.

You are right about userland though, and what excites me is this might be the first mainstream device with a traditional Linux desktop setup. Even if people aren't going to be running Photoshop, they will run Discord, and they will likely be hungry for other software after that.

New comment by cameronbrown in "Canonical turned a profit, back above 500 employees"

cameronbrown — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 16:43:14 +0000

Maybe. I think it will solve the bootstrapping problem of all games being Linux compatible. The demand for proper software might not be far behind.

New comment by cameronbrown in "Canonical turned a profit, back above 500 employees"

cameronbrown — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 15:37:30 +0000

This and the recent Steam Deck news makes me think we might have a few million Linux gamers soon. That might even be enough to tempt software support from the traditional vendors like Adobe.

Show HN: I made a power grid engineering puzzle game (Steam Playtest)

cameronbrown — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 19:02:52 +0000

Article URL: http://store.steampowered.com/app/890890/Green_With_Energy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27532194

Points: 3

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