Hacker News: owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=owenpalmerHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 03 Oct 2026 17:54:53 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "Meta VR Glasses"]]>erberg

]]>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:11:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825352owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825352https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825352<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "Midjourney Medical"]]>Why would you jump from an ultrasound to chemotherapy? It's not meant to be a definitive diagnosis, it's just an early screening process...

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:09:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609000owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609000<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "Midjourney Medical"]]>I'm not so worried about the data being useful, I'm worried about the machine actually working.

I mean, with that much data, you may be able to understand under what timeframe a tumor is actually of concern. What's so bad about having some false positives?

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:35:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579950owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579950https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579950<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "Midjourney Medical"]]>I think getting more medical data could prevent a lot of health problems, and collecting it in a relaxed and frequent environment could be interesting. This announcement is honestly just... a bit weird. They're talking about wanting to do a billion scans a month, but they haven't even mentioned what the ultrasound data can tell you about your health, nor have they showed a physical demo of the product. I think the latter is the most important part, does it actually work?

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:29:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579890owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579890https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579890<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"]]>Importantly, the researchers told it to do that specific task.

]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:47:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499698owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499698https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499698<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"]]>A law that is not enforced is ultimately a suggestion

]]>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:02:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469898owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469898https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469898<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"]]>> This is not just another incremental release. OpenCV 5 is a major step forward.

Am I the only one that finds this sentence very cheesey?

]]>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:21:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464212owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464212https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464212<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"]]>Why did you write it as "1969ties"?

]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:18:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448151owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448151https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448151<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"]]>Smoking has entered the chat

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 17:06:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111098owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111098https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111098<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "David Attenborough's 100th Birthday"]]>One of the most iconic voices.

https://youtu.be/P3ump1Buszo?si=0DoXiDTqZOyTBUst

]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 21:38:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069094owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069094https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069094<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"]]>I tried to become a contributor to Canvas (it's open source), but I couldn't even get a development environment setup because of their storage space requirements.

https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki/Quick-Start

> It is recommended that you have at least 150GB of available hard drive space, 8GB of RAM, and a quad-core CPU to use this script.

As far as I can tell, this is not for running a production environment with assets. This is just the development environment.

]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 21:32:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069042owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069042https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069042<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"]]>A truly wonderful read

]]>Wed, 06 May 2026 04:36:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032217owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032217https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032217<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "Ti-84 Evo"]]>70 months, or 5.83 years

]]>Sat, 02 May 2026 05:12:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983517owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983517https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983517<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"]]>What other reasons?

]]>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:37:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944208owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944208https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944208<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"]]>Perhaps red is selfish, but blue is most certainly foolish.

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:17:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913837owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913837https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913837<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"]]>Is it worse? Wouldn't the red people end up with more like-minded red people?

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:55:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913566owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913566https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913566<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"]]>> It's naive to think that 100% of people will press the red button.

Those who press the blue button are trying to save those who press the blue button. If they weren't trying to save each other, they wouldn't have to.

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:37:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913310owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913310https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913310<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics"]]>All textbooks are free if you know where to look

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:29:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913193owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913193https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913193<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology"]]>Optimized? Perhaps.

Optimal? Not even close.

]]>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:53:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902811owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902811https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902811<![CDATA[New comment by owenpalmer in "What we learned building a Rust runtime for TypeScript"]]>That does what?

]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:06:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47771531owenpalmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47771531https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47771531