<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>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:26:54 +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 "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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:05:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36806745</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36806745</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36806745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "Google DeepMind"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if they will converge on using Trax (Google Brain) or Tensor Flow / PyTorch.<p>I use Trax is my NLP class, so I hope it gets more adoption.</p>
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<p>I've always found it odd that cash-rich companies keep bank accounts, when they could purchase short-duration t-bills.<p>There's now at least one business bank the will purchase t-bills on a companies behalf with minimal transaction costs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:36:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35103527</link><dc:creator>owenbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35103527</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35103527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by owenbrown in "A common trap for people entering programming jobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This advice may make sense for some languages, but it certainly doesn’t make sense for Python.<p>Python generally provides one and only one best way to do things. With one exception (single quotes vs. double quotes) I can’t think of any cases where my company didn’t espouse or require using regular, idiomatic Python.<p>My company consistently preferred using expressive features do the language. For example, using list comprehension instead of for-loops.<p>After learning Python, reading up on the frameworks used at my company (Django and Django Rest Framework) would be the next best use of a new dev’s time.<p>This advice might be specific to Django and Django Rest Framework. Both frameworks are old, popular, and opinionated; other people have thought through the best way to do things.<p>Understanding all the packages in the standard library is by no means a requirement, but knowing the language itself backward and forwards pays enormous dividends when debugging.</p>
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