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New comment by owaislone in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2"

owaislone — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:01:11 +0000

This project has been so impressive and exciting. I hope power management is a serious concern once they nail all the reverse engineering and functionality. Battery life would be a huge differentiator for the day to day macbook usage and traditionally Linux has been terrible at that due to lack of proprietary & highly tuned drivers

New comment by owaislone in "Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027"

owaislone — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:31:33 +0000

Good for you. Nobody is challenging what a web app can or cannot do. I love PWAs but services I need every day either don't have a web interface at all, have limited features or are unusable on a small screen let alone having a PWA. This is not about technical abilities but about what companies actually do.

New comment by owaislone in "Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027"

owaislone — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:31:24 +0000

Nothing is stopping you. You're free to use a desktop web app that either doesn't work or is terribly slow or has limited features on a mobile web browser. I'd love it if all apps were PWAs but that is not the case.

New comment by owaislone in "GrapheneOS in 2027 available on high-end Motorola phones"

owaislone — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:30:03 +0000

Apps. We'd love a completely different OS and it is viable on desktop because web almost does everything but on mobile you're basically locked out of very essential functionality like banking, transit, messaging etc. The compatibility layers aren't good enough (yet) to offer a seamless experience.

New comment by owaislone in "Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes"

owaislone — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:58:55 +0000

Thanks. Just set my shell and all IDEs to this. Perfect!

New comment by owaislone in "Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?"

owaislone — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:29:06 +0000

I check HN a few times a day. Anything I miss is probably not worth it anyway. Never felt I need to "keep up" with it.

New comment by owaislone in "Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes"

owaislone — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:16:05 +0000

Looks so nice. What is the easiest way to use this in ghostty+fish?

New comment by owaislone in "A new study of a bot running a store finds it is friendly but not very smart"

owaislone — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:54:36 +0000

Exactly. This is how I design agents as well. I essentially treat the agent as the web/mobile app, cli tool os API library not as part of my backend even though there is where it runs. The backend doesn't treat the agent in any special way. It simply gates all action based on the permissions of the user/guest that is using the agent.

New comment by owaislone in "What's the best programming language for coding agents?"

owaislone — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:44:13 +0000

In my experience, Dart/Flutter has been so much better than React. Go has been really good for the backend. Basically if the framework/language gives you structure and one way to do things, agents tend to create less mess with less guardrails from you.

New comment by owaislone in "Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac"

owaislone — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:39:21 +0000

Exciting! Maybe techniques like these can enable systems with 30-60GB memory and very fast SSDs of the future run very large models hopefully.

New comment by owaislone in "Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap"

owaislone — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:34:40 +0000

For anyone interested in this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPJkM95KpKo

New comment by owaislone in "Show HN: HART OS – an open-source AI OS built so frontier AI needs no datacenter"

owaislone — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:15:57 +0000

oh boy

New comment by owaislone in "Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds"

owaislone — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:23:04 +0000

- discuss the plan, dos-and-donts, instructions and have them add it to a PLAN_FEATURE.md with the goal, non-goal, non-negotiables, technical details on the top. - come up with phases to implement your thing. P1, P2, ... P8.. whatever - in each phase add simple one line TODOs with as much explanantion of the task as needed e.g, - [ ] Update DB schema, - [ ] Generate migrations - Ask the agent to go one phase or todo at a time depending on complexity. - if the context fills up, /clear the window and just ask it to do the next line. - if you wrote up all you care about in the plan properly, it'll follow what you need it to do.

New comment by owaislone in "Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds"

owaislone — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:47:51 +0000

Sure - define your project standards in the repo or agent's skill and tell it just that.

New comment by owaislone in "Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds"

owaislone — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:47:19 +0000

You have to treat it like a co-worker send you PRs for review. You review, ask to improve/cleanup stuff and it'll follow up. You can even ask it to remember so it follows the patterns in future. Even better, if you work with it to come up with a design first and then send it coding, you often don't need as much cleanup as the desired architecture is agreed upon early.

New comment by owaislone in "Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16"

owaislone — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:49:53 +0000

Enables the best git command ever: git bisect

New comment by owaislone in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

owaislone — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:16:52 +0000

Answer to almost all of your questions is that it entirely depends on the service what kind of auth implementation they offer. I personally have completely adopted passkeys and use them with every service that allows it.

I use ProtonPass and have made it the default password store on every device and browser. This way all passkeys get stored in proton and I can login from any other personal device with proton setup.

New comment by owaislone in "Solod: Go can be a better C"

owaislone — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:35:45 +0000

Yeah but they were intentionally trying to build a better C++/Java, not a better C. It wasn't even aimed at things that C is good at. It was mostly aimed at writing high performance servers that have to scale really big not only in terms of performance but software complexity, size and contributions. So Go is a better C++ or Java for writing servers according to its creators.

New comment by owaislone in "Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo"

owaislone — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:18:38 +0000

Isn't this basically the same a Framework Desktop which has been out for quite a while? Does it improve on it in any way?

https://frame.work/desktop

New comment by owaislone in "Immich 3.0"

owaislone — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:28:31 +0000

I've been considering it as well. I'm using 1.5TB in google one storage. mostly from photos/videos from the last decade from 4 family members.

Have you thought about backups and redundancy? I was thinking of hosting it on my homelab with backups on some cheap cloud storage but almost any cloud storage ends up costing somewhat similar to Google One so I've been a bit reluctant.

A good backup story is probably the only thing keeping me from switching.