Hacker News: owenpalmer

New comment by owenpalmer in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

owenpalmer — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:47:52 +0000

Importantly, the researchers told it to do that specific task.

New comment by owenpalmer in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

owenpalmer — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:02:17 +0000

A law that is not enforced is ultimately a suggestion

New comment by owenpalmer in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

owenpalmer — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:21:20 +0000

> 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?

New comment by owenpalmer in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

owenpalmer — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:18:18 +0000

Why did you write it as "1969ties"?

New comment by owenpalmer in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

owenpalmer — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:06:50 +0000

Smoking has entered the chat

New comment by owenpalmer in "David Attenborough's 100th Birthday"

owenpalmer — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:38:14 +0000

One of the most iconic voices.

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

New comment by owenpalmer in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

owenpalmer — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:32:46 +0000

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.

New comment by owenpalmer in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

owenpalmer — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:36:20 +0000

A truly wonderful read

New comment by owenpalmer in "Ti-84 Evo"

owenpalmer — Sat, 02 May 2026 05:12:39 +0000

70 months, or 5.83 years

New comment by owenpalmer in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

owenpalmer — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:37:18 +0000

What other reasons?

New comment by owenpalmer in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

owenpalmer — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:17:13 +0000

Perhaps red is selfish, but blue is most certainly foolish.

New comment by owenpalmer in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

owenpalmer — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:55:53 +0000

Is it worse? Wouldn't the red people end up with more like-minded red people?

New comment by owenpalmer in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

owenpalmer — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:37:34 +0000

> 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.

New comment by owenpalmer in "Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics"

owenpalmer — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:29:52 +0000

All textbooks are free if you know where to look

New comment by owenpalmer in "PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology"

owenpalmer — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:53:48 +0000

Optimized? Perhaps.

Optimal? Not even close.

New comment by owenpalmer in "What we learned building a Rust runtime for TypeScript"

owenpalmer — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:06:23 +0000

That does what?

New comment by owenpalmer in "What we learned building a Rust runtime for TypeScript"

owenpalmer — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:41:58 +0000

I can't seem to tell exactly what they built. They call it a runtime, but they're using NodeJS?

Did they implement a transpiler in Rust?

They also seem to be calling Rust from JS, but not through wasm...

They seem to be doing something with Rust and http, but they're also just using "Pingora"...

Additionally, their homepage is about 20 fps while scrolling on my phone (pixel 4a, brave)

I would honestly love for someone to explain to me wtf is going on.

New comment by owenpalmer in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

owenpalmer — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:43:39 +0000

Alternatively, they could just make the web UI good.

New comment by owenpalmer in "Show HN: I built an OS that is pure AI"

owenpalmer — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:51:24 +0000

> It generates real wasm that runs directly on the machine.

Well, it's not directly on the machine. You still need the wasm engine/runtime to run it

New comment by owenpalmer in "Show HN: I built an OS that is pure AI"

owenpalmer — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:57:34 +0000

They're like an OS by analogy, but all of them require an actual OS to interface with the hardware. I don't think making that term fluid is a good idea. If we did, how would I refer to... "an actual OS"?