<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: owenbrown</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=owenbrown</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 17:22:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=owenbrown" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How should I think about this, compared to GPUI (<a href="https://gpui.rs" rel="nofollow">https://gpui.rs</a>)? 
What are pros and cons?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:35:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50395521</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50395521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50395521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Mdt – save tokens reading changes to Markdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use shared markdown files to collaborate with agents. Their biggest complaint was that, when content changed, they needed to either re-read the full file or write code to find the difference.<p>So I made mdt. It's light - one binary, one sqlite file - and lets your agent track the changes to a shared file, so that it only reads the diff.<p>Ping me if I can make it better.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214296">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214296</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:39:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/markdowntool/mdt</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214296</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "When and why prototyping is still needed when working with AI agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hope this is helpful. I wish I'd read it 72 hours ago. 
TLDR: Use ChatGPT Desktop or Claude Desktop to prototype when 1) there are many branches and screens, 2) you're working in a compiled language, or 3) backend logic is gnarly.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://emmflow.com/blog/when-and-why-prototyping-is-still-needed-when-working-with-ai-agents">https://emmflow.com/blog/when-and-why-prototyping-is-still-needed-when-working-with-ai-agents</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000158">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000158</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:27:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://emmflow.com/blog/when-and-why-prototyping-is-still-needed-when-working-with-ai-agents</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000158</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "Fine, I'll build my own text editor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Check out Quick Memory. 
It’s a stripped-down, faster Obsidian. All rust, not html.<p><a href="https://qm.venka.com" rel="nofollow">https://qm.venka.com</a><p>It’s small (zip < 7MB) and fast (launches in 300 ms, opens Moby Dick in < 300 ms).<p>Ping me if you use and something is missing.<p>It’s my daily note-taking app.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:48:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537168</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537168</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m spending a significant portion of my day waiting for agents to execute.<p>What’s more interesting to me than time-to-first token or latency is the time it takes for the agent to execute, from starts to finish, excluding when it’s waiting on a human.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:22:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48840964</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48840964</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48840964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "Podman v6.0.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>PaaS like render.com explicitly support Docker.<p>As a developer, I wager that any gains I get from Podman will be dwarfed by bugs that I’m encountering in the other software I use.<p>I’m not implying that Podman causes the bugs. I’m saying that I’ll be more likely to be the first person to encounter the bug.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:50:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767192</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767192</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "Mr. Chatterbox is a Victorian-era ethically trained model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You could try these techniques to get over the data sparsity.<p><a href="https://qlabs.sh/10x" rel="nofollow">https://qlabs.sh/10x</a><p>It’s really cool, I’d love to see it smart.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:38:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591624</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591624</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The other demos didn't work for me, so I made <a href="https://github.com/owenbrown/transcribe" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/owenbrown/transcribe</a>
It's just a python script to test the streaming.<p>Wow, Voxtral is amazing. It will be great when someone stitches this up so an LLM starts thinking, researching for you, before you actually finish talking.<p>Like, create a conversation partner with sub 0.5 second latency. For example, you ask it a multi part questions and, as soon as you finish talking, it gives you the answer to the first part while it looks up the rest of the answer, then stitches it together so that there's no break.<p>The 2-3 second latency of existing voice chatbots is a non-started for most humans.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:08:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896272</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896272</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It would be interesting if someone built a platform like Brex or Expensify, to manage spending within these programs.<p>Something that balanced empowering participants and protecting their privacy, while also protecting them from financial abuse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:06:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856829</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856829</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A regular paper and pencil exam would be a better experience for the students.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:20:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470726</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>+ would be a much better experience for the students.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:18:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470714</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470714</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "Evolutionary Pressures Predict the Goals of Superintelligences"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the goals are super-intelligences, which I'm defining as organization composed of humans and AI agents, are knowable.<p>I'd love feedback.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zVr9-xBdlWaqpoHRt0iEqtNbO2o7uPzvD6KGZllmsi8/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zVr9-xBdlWaqpoHRt0iEqtNbO2o7uPzvD6KGZllmsi8/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742648">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742648</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:31:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zVr9-xBdlWaqpoHRt0iEqtNbO2o7uPzvD6KGZllmsi8/edit?pli=1&amp;tab=t.0</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742648</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead with Ads in Maps App"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This will destroy a lot of trust and between Apple and me.<p>When I buy Apple, I pay a premium price for a premium product.<p>The ways ads work, is that the ad revenue shows up in the company’s quarterly earnings, and very quickly the company has to increase ad load across every surface to meet earnings expectations. The user experience deteriorates, getting worse each year.<p>When I buy Apple, it’s based on my expectation that Apple will remain a premium, mostly ad-free experience for the life of the device. When, after my purchase, they make the product worse, like with the recent iOS update that rolled back usability, it destroys a lot of trust.<p>I will leave the ecosystem.<p>This is not in Apple’s long term best interests.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:37:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712273</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712273</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead with Ads in Maps App"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This will destroy a lot of trust and between Apple and me.<p>When I buy Apple, I pay a premium price for a premium product.<p>I would rather you simple charge me more for my product.<p>The ways ads work, is that the ad revenue shows up in the company’s revenue, and very quickly the company has to increase ad load across every surface to meet earnings expectations. The user experience deteriorates, getting worse each year.<p>When I buy Apple, it’s based on my expectation that Apple will remain a premium, ad-free experience for the life of the device. When, after my purchase, Apple make the product worse, like with the recent iOS update that rolled back usability, it destroys a lot of trust.<p>I will leave the ecosystem.<p>This is not in Apple’s long term best interests.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:35:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712251</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712251</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "Minesweeper thermodynamics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article makes a serious math error early on.<p>The author’s math considers how mines would be distributed if mines were distributed to the empty squares after reaching that board state.<p>This is wrong.<p>This is classic Monty Hall Problem. The author is doing the equivalent of saying “there are two doors left, so the odds are 50 / 50 that the prize is behind either door.<p>It invalidates all of the numbers after this point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:03:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45127407</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45127407</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45127407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "Dada, an experimental new programming language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every time I see a new language, I immediately check if it uses significant white space like Python. If it doesn’t, I sigh sadly and dismiss it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:53:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39616566</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39616566</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39616566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "The Flix Programming Language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It boggles my mind that any developer of a new language wouldn’t use Python’s significant use of white space.<p>You’re able to fit more code on a screen, and it’s less visual noise. It’s like Pareto better. I really don’t get why others don’t copy it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 16:24:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38422777</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38422777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38422777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "MacBook Air vs. pro for development work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You mentioned wanting to use dual-monitors. 
MacBook Air only supports one external monitor.<p><a href="https://www.apple.com/macbook-air-13-and-15-m2/specs/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.apple.com/macbook-air-13-and-15-m2/specs/</a></p>
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