Hacker News: billconan

New comment by billconan in "Ask HN: If someone invested $100k now for your startup, how would you spend it?"

billconan — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:50:46 +0000

paying the cloud cost,

claude code subscription,

hiring contractors for (game) assets

hiring CPAs for taxing

New comment by billconan in "MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control"

billconan — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:21:35 +0000

does it have gpu support?

New comment by billconan in "Rpdfium: Ruby implementation of Pdfium, Chrome's PDF engine"

billconan — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:47:21 +0000

it is a binding, not an implementation

New comment by billconan in "DiffusionBlocks: Training Neural Networks One Block at a Time"

billconan — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:43:57 +0000

I do not understand.

how is this different from building smaller transformer layers, and each layer just denoises less?

New comment by billconan in "Tcloc: Treemap Count Lines of Code"

billconan — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:11:12 +0000

I need something similar for measuring folder sizes.

New comment by billconan in "Godot WebGPU"

billconan — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:14:34 +0000

very slow on my macbook air

New comment by billconan in "What if the browser was the server?"

billconan — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:05:12 +0000

how is this different from service worker?

New comment by billconan in "Cplt: Run AI coding agents or a plain shell inside a kernel-level sandbox"

billconan — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:53:32 +0000

can it run the chrome browser?

New comment by billconan in "Ask HN: What percent of your YouTube consumption is listening only?"

billconan — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:04:08 +0000

50%

New comment by billconan in "Show HN: NoonFlow – a macOS workspace I built for Claude Code and Codex"

billconan — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:58:24 +0000

I couldn't find the source code in the repo

New comment by billconan in "Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files"

billconan — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:46:33 +0000

LGPL issues aside, will a project like this need to pay the h264 patent fee?

New comment by billconan in "Ask HN: Can you show me some useful AI-written programs?"

billconan — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:33:02 +0000

I recently vibe coded an e2e encrypted file vault for myself. I use it a lot. It also has built in offline music player and read-it-later.

I also have built a p2p based remote shell to manage my servers. Also works well.

New comment by billconan in "US Electricity Price Heat Map"

billconan — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:52:06 +0000

It says California is cheaper than Texas? That contradicts my personal experience.

New comment by billconan in "Show HN: I ran 28 OpenClaw instances as a team for 2 months"

billconan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:45:36 +0000

how much did you pay for APIs during the 2 months?

New comment by billconan in "Show HN: Open-Source Animal Crossing–Style UI for Claude Code Agents"

billconan — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:53:42 +0000

does it use the claude code api or the claude code cli? You know, the claude code api is more expensive.

I also hope it can have a webapp version, rather than electron. because most of our work are on a remote server.

New comment by billconan in "Where to work: compare cost of living and PPP worldwide"

billconan — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:32:12 +0000

is this accurate? it doesn't seem to count the state tax?

New comment by billconan in "Show HN: OctoFlow – A GPU-native programming language"

billconan — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:10:26 +0000

I'm curious how a gpu language's syntax design can be different from CUDA kernel?

Because I think there is no way to avoid concepts like thread_id.

I'm curious how GPU programming can be made (a lot) simpler than CUDA.

New comment by billconan in "The only moat left is money?"

billconan — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:50:45 +0000

> you attend to those needs faster than competitors

I wonder if this type of hustling can be called moat building?

New comment by billconan in "The only moat left is money?"

billconan — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:38:27 +0000

how to prevent others from building a copycat using ai?

New comment by billconan in "Web-based video editor powered by WebGPU"

billconan — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:33:17 +0000

can you workaround the browser tab memory limit (4gb or 16gb) to process long clips?