Hacker News: widenrun

Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?

widenrun — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:49:35 +0000

I asked this in 2024 and would love to see the change: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41748125

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275508

Points: 153

# Comments: 111

Ask HN: Is anyone still using the ChatGPT browser, Atlas?

widenrun — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:53:30 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958267

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Atanasoff-Berry Computer

widenrun — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:45:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/birth-of-the-computer/4/99

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717292

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by widenrun in "The Brand Age"

widenrun — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:01:27 +0000

Complication parity across all platforms

New comment by widenrun in "How will OpenAI compete?"

widenrun — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:12:15 +0000

Today I heard at least 5 times something along the lines "I got this from ChatGPT", "I asked ChatGPT"...

Individualized Networks

widenrun — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:21:11 +0000

Article URL: https://stratechery.com/2026/spotify-earnings-individualized-networks-ai-and-aggregation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028814

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

John von Neumann's MANIAC I (1952)

widenrun — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:15:54 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANIAC_I

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46644935

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by widenrun in "PGlite – Embeddable Postgres"

widenrun — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:10:47 +0000

Using this for testing... it feels like a sweet spot between in-memory SQLite and spinning up a full Postgres instance. I'd been looking for this for a while and I'm pretty happy with the faster tests. And so far no blockers from its limitations.

New comment by widenrun in "A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development"

widenrun — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:33:54 +0000

I'm using conductor.build and running both Claude Code and Codex. It's taken 95% of my workflow and I'm loving it (I'm not affiliated with them at all, genuinely enjoying it and hoping it succeed)

New comment by widenrun in "No Calls"

widenrun — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:30:59 +0000

I hope this reaches other companies selling to technical people. I’ve also been a CTO at a $xxM ARR company, and I made several buying decisions for competitors who let me try their product without requiring a meeting.

Of course, some people do prefer calls, but I think there’s a disproportionate default to “book a call first” when selling.

Naval Ravikant: "The single most important book on parenting"

widenrun — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 03:13:48 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/naval/status/1878884784572903789

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42693099

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

We Are the Robots

widenrun — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 02:00:32 +0000

Article URL: https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/we-are-the-robotsWeAretheRobots

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42414038

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?

widenrun — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 06:37:06 +0000

It's been 8 months since the initial reviews, so I would love to know if anyone has managed to really become productive and comfortable working hours a day on the Apple Vision Pro.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41748125

Points: 118

# Comments: 112

New comment by widenrun in "AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products"

widenrun — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 04:45:49 +0000

You are forgetting marketing is temporal. Fifteen years ago you could sell your software as the Cloud version of a legacy app. Right now, there's a window that being the AI version will get you a call.

New comment by widenrun in "The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day"

widenrun — Thu, 09 May 2024 02:27:09 +0000

> A software launch is like performing live theater for introverts.

This should be the title!

New comment by widenrun in "Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?"

widenrun — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:01:56 +0000

When thinking about historical events, I like to see a visual timeline. I built WorldInTimelines [1] when I was first playing with GPT.

[1] https://worldintimelines.com

Ask HN: What advice would you offer to parents raising bilingual children?

widenrun — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 23:33:25 +0000

While the long-term benefits of bilingualism are obvious, I can only imagine how hard it is for a young kid to deal with the differences, accents, making friends, feeling confident...

If you grew up bilingual, what advice would you give to a parent raising a bilingual toddler?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38596104

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

A Camera, Not an Engine

widenrun — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 04:27:49 +0000

Article URL: https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/a-camera-not-an-engine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38578579

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by widenrun in "Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget"

widenrun — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 10:09:52 +0000

Exactly, it reminds me of this:

"Drift to low performance is a gradual process. If the system state plunged quickly, there would be an agitated corrective process. But if it drifts down slowly enough to erase the memory of (or belief in) how much better things used to be, everyone is lulled into lower and lower expectations, lower effort, lower performance."

-- From the book "Thinking in Systems".

Shrdlu is a 1968 program for understanding natural language

widenrun — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 01:28:16 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38551750

Points: 4

# Comments: 0