Hacker News: mnbbrown

New comment by mnbbrown in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

mnbbrown — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:09:15 +0000

I've loved using pgdog for the last 6 months. It's been incredibly stable. It's nifty how they've solved the LISTEN/NOTIFY on a transaction pooler problem.

New comment by mnbbrown in "Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition"

mnbbrown — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:22:15 +0000

Added gladia..

- 1. Soniox (stt-async-v4): +176 new cases, running total 176/248 (71.0%)

- 2. ElevenLabs (scribe_v2): +26 new cases, running total 202/248 (81.5%)

- 3. Speechmatics (enhanced): +12 new cases, running total 214/248 (86.3%)

- 4. NVIDIA Parakeet (TDT 0.6B v2): +6 new cases, running total 220/248 (88.7%)

- 5. Mistral (voxtral-mini): +3 new cases, running total 223/248 (89.9%)

- 6. Gladia: +2 new cases, running total 225/248 (90.7%)

- 7. AssemblyAI (universal-2): +1 new cases, running total 226/248 (91.1%)

- 8. Deepgram (nova-3): +1 new cases, running total 227/248 (91.5%)

- 9. Cohere (transcribe-03-2026): +0 new cases, running total 227/248 (91.5%)

- 10. AssemblyAI (universal-3-pro): +0 new cases, running total 227/248 (91.5%)

New comment by mnbbrown in "Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition"

mnbbrown — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:18:12 +0000

They are all transcribed by multiple blinded "accent natives". But yes, your point is valid - going to see if I can tease out the "single person accuracy".

New comment by mnbbrown in "Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition"

mnbbrown — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:43:11 +0000

Ran it over our internal dataset of ~250 recordings of people saying british postcodes (all kinds of accents, etc) - it's competitive for sure!

Soniox (stt-async-v4): 176/248 (71.0%) ElevenLabs (scribe_v2): 170/248 (68.5%) AssemblyAI (universal-3-pro): 166/248 (66.9%) Deepgram (nova-3): 158/248 (63.7%) AssemblyAI (universal-2): 148/248 (59.7%) Cohere (transcribe-03-2026): 148/248 (59.7%) Speechmatics (enhanced): 134/248 (54.0%)

P.s. how do I get this to render correctly on here?

New comment by mnbbrown in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

mnbbrown — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:03:54 +0000

Incroyable! Competitive (if not better) than deepgram nova-3, and much better than assembly and elevenlabs in basically all cases on our internal streaming benchmarking.

The dataset is ~100 8kHz call recordings with gnarly UK accents (which I consider to be the final boss of english language ASR). It seems like it's SOTA.

Where it does fall down seems to be the latency distribution but I'm testing against the API. Running it locally will no doubt improve that?

GoCardless (YC S11) sells for €1.05B

mnbbrown — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:44:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/7904647c-91ea-4e90-b496-5d249a7a5d91

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231987

Points: 2

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Founder-led sales, from the perspective of a Founder, leading sales

mnbbrown — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:44:46 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/inbox/post/180021176

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46067161

Points: 1

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The Economics of Model Intelligence

mnbbrown — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:57:06 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/home/post/p-176201646

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45912495

Points: 1

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Using the node 18 native test runner with TypeScript and React

mnbbrown — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 10:21:42 +0000

Article URL: https://matthewbrown.io/2025/09/04/node-test-runner

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45125612

Points: 1

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New comment by mnbbrown in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)"

mnbbrown — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 20:35:55 +0000

Elyos (https://elyos.ai) | London, UK | ONSITE | YC S23

Company: We're the UK's fastest growing AI voice company (~30% MoM) - very deeply focused on the trades industry right now (think your friendly neighbourhood plumbing company).

We're a small but experienced team hiring 3 more to join:

- Founding Engineer - Founding SDR - Founding Operations Lead (customer success)

Tech: GKE, python, postgres, telephony/media streaming, realtime LLMs, contextual eou detection, the occasional REST API.

https://careers.elyos.ai/ or message me - matt (at) elyos.ai

Mention bananas for extra kudos.

20 days, one porsche, and a Greek wedding

mnbbrown — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 21:43:16 +0000

Article URL: https://matthewbrown.io/2015/07/14/london-to-greece-porsche-997

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44279042

Points: 4

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New comment by mnbbrown in "Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director"

mnbbrown — Sat, 03 May 2025 08:45:52 +0000

As someone who’s from Brisbane but spent the last 7 years in London you’re 100% correct. Brisbane is the best city in the world. I’m excited to eventually move back.

Defining AI Tools in Python

mnbbrown — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 10:47:18 +0000

Article URL: https://matthewbrown.io/2025/03/26/ai-tools-in-python

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43480745

Points: 2

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Async Pytest in Python 3.11+

mnbbrown — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 03:15:12 +0000

Article URL: https://matthewbrown.io/2024/05/19/notes-on-pytest

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43146095

Points: 1

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Ask HN: iOS STT for postcodes, addresses better than deepgram?

mnbbrown — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 03:32:05 +0000

Why is iOS speech to text so much better at numbers, addresses and postcodes than Deepgram, whisper, etc?

It nails them - the rest are mediocre at best. Does anybody know of a model that's accurate with this sort of data?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42914633

Points: 1

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New comment by mnbbrown in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)"

mnbbrown — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 23:32:07 +0000

That’s cool!

Very familiar with BMSs but the lack of open standards and protocols has been extremely frustrating - makes me appreciate how good we have it with HTTP, etc.

Lots say they support BACnet but that’s only if they’ve been configured and the points exported, etc.

Haystack is a great step forward for labelling too but adoption seems fill with complexity :)

New comment by mnbbrown in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)"

mnbbrown — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:02:37 +0000

Decarbonising buildings and massive warehouses..

It's a very fun mix of hardware (for data collection), and crazy SQL queries to model energy flows between buildings, solar, batteries, etc. Considering just one building is pretty easy:

consumption = imported - exported + generated - stored + dispatched. carbon = carbon intensity * imported cost = tariff * imported

but then you add a site with a couple of buildings, solar on one of them, grid limited exports, etc modelling these flows is challenging. Like consider the case where one building got 10% of it's imported power from another building's excess solar, then calculating carbon becomes more difficult.

and once you've figured all that - then you have to figure out what makes commercial sense to do next.. install a battery, expand solar, move onto a TOU tariff, do nothing - and that's a whole other world of optimisation problems.

Ask HN: Please stop hosting engineering blogs on medium

mnbbrown — Wed, 15 May 2024 07:52:50 +0000

So much knowledge stuck behind a paywall.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40364195

Points: 6

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New comment by mnbbrown in "Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes"

mnbbrown — Sat, 04 May 2024 12:42:29 +0000

Could ask for a username the first time they publish. Low friction

RouterPi – A Compute Module 4 Router

mnbbrown — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:00:34 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.zakkemble.net/routerpi-compute-module-4-router/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39854346

Points: 1

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