Hacker News: almog

New comment by almog in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

almog — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:58:26 +0000

Given how the cache eviction policy is mismatched with the 5h usage window, it might make sense to just stop at say 97% of the session max usage and keep running a script every 4 min and 50 sec that consumes a minimal number of tokens whose entire purpose is to keep the cache. reply

Claude's popularity is forcing it to hit the brakes on users

almog — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:41:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/claude-usage-caps-changes-popularity-anthropic-2026-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549343

Points: 1

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New comment by almog in "I built a programming language using Claude Code"

almog — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:27:03 +0000

Neither RAG nor loading the docs into the context window would produce any effective results. Not even including the grammar files and just few examples in the training set would help. To get any usable results you still need many many usage examples.

New comment by almog in "Silicon Valley engineers were indicted for allegedly sending secrets to Iran"

almog — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:21:34 +0000

Uh oh, two independent thought alarms in one day! The students are overstimulated. Willie! remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms.

Framework anounces another DDR5 RAM price hike, will now charge $10 per GB

almog — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:12:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/850376/framework-ram-memory-ddr5-price-hikes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419485

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by almog in "We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)"

almog — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:59:43 +0000

Posts like this on the front page make me miss N-Gate so bad...

New comment by almog in "Feds demand compromise on Colorado River while states flounder"

almog — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:53:30 +0000

Thanks, will add it to my reading list while I'd also recommend the classic on that topic, Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner.

New comment by almog in "AI will kill all the lawyers"

almog — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:59:36 +0000

Can you imagine a world without lawyers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG3uea-Hvy4

New comment by almog in "The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, Atlas are the same mountain range"

almog — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:48:17 +0000

If you want to section hike it, its entire North American part is covered by the Eastern Continental Trail (ECT), which some people (very few, as in a tiny fraction of all A.T. thruhikers) thruhike it in a single calendar year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Continental_Trail

New comment by almog in "Size of Life"

almog — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:05:08 +0000

One error I think I spotted: Wooly Mammoth atill lived 4000 years ago in Wrangel Island but the the website says it got extinct 10,000 years ago.

New comment by almog in "DMT-induced shifts in criticality correlate with self-dissolution"

almog — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:09:37 +0000

... It comes with a free frogurt!

New comment by almog in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

almog — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:52:26 +0000

Tens of thousands of users? Globally you mean? I doubt it's the user base size in Gaza but if that is actually what you meant, where did you pull that estimate from?

New comment by almog in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

almog — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:34:09 +0000

Other than the cold start problem which isn't discussed (what's the userbase size in Gaza?), the main argument for Bitchat (or any other off-grid network such as Meshtastic, Briar, etc.) in Gaza when mainstream E2E encrypted messaging apps already exist and are widely used, is to not be dependent on Israel for cell service.

While I do really like the idea of off-grid networks in general but for this use case, is it really that hard for a state actor to jam Bluetooth (or all ~2.4GHz communication) on a large scale?

New comment by almog in "Users Stuck in YubiKey Re-Enrollment Loop on X (Twitter)"

almog — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:32:45 +0000

And looks like in the process any drafts users may have had are all gone now.

New comment by almog in "Users Stuck in YubiKey Re-Enrollment Loop on X (Twitter)"

almog — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:15:53 +0000

Got here after finding myself stuck in that exact loop (which initially I assumed was a phishing attempt from a webview ad link I thought I accidentally clicked).

Looks like some users who have never used or heard of Yubikey report being locked out and stuck in the same loop.

New comment by almog in "Notes on switching to Helix from Vim"

almog — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:38:49 +0000

* Too late to edit but of course I meant Vim's verb-noun syntax.

New comment by almog in "Notes on switching to Helix from Vim"

almog — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:46:17 +0000

The one time I tried Helix, I could find no way to switch from noun-verb syntax to vim's noun-verb syntax, is it possible now?

Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say

almog — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:15:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/09/21/trump-autism-announcement-tylenol-leucovorin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45326716

Points: 22

# Comments: 25

Grandma Gatewood

almog — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:14:15 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45300753

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by almog in "American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana"

almog — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:08:14 +0000

Perhaps it is a good place to mention that _today_ is the last day to submit comments on the potential effects of rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/29/2025-16...