Hacker News: billconan

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?

New comment by billconan in "Show HN: PXG v3.0 – Searchable Compression via 2D Spatial Decomposition"

billconan — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:23:00 +0000

tried the link:

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New comment by billconan in "I did what Microsoft couldn't: Edit docs on a whiteboard [video]"

billconan — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:43:01 +0000

similar to https://www.nimo.space/

New comment by billconan in "Ask HN: Do you prefer AI coding in an IDE or CLI? And why?"

billconan — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:31:26 +0000

I prefer IDEs, they have better support for me to drag and drop my screenshots to the ai agent, my projects are ui heavy.

New comment by billconan in "Ask HN: What are some interesting projects you have built using Claude Code"

billconan — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:54:47 +0000

I built something like ssh, but using a p2p protocol.

I can remotely control my home server, do port forwarding, copy files etc.

New comment by billconan in "Rockstar Had Ideas for GTA Tokyo, Rio, Moscow, Istanbul"

billconan — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:06:24 +0000

I think they should open their map editor so people can make mods. that's a double win.

Kenshi is really smart on this matter.

New comment by billconan in "Ask HN: What Skills did you picked up in 2025"

billconan — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:44:20 +0000

vibe coding

New comment by billconan in "The new moat in AI isn't models. It's data infrastructure"

billconan — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:27:56 +0000

what's Claude + unified data ? and what's realtime data pipeline? '

New comment by billconan in "HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)"

billconan — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:00:22 +0000

mixing rendering definitions with content (PDF) is something from the printer era, that is unsuitable for the digital era.

HTML was a digital format, but it wanted to be a generic format for all document types, not just papers, so it contains a lot of extras that a paper format doesn't need.

for research papers, since they share the same structure, we can further separate content from rendering.

for example, if you want to later connect a paper with an AI, do you want to send

... ?

or do some nasty heuristic to extract the abstract? like document. getElementsByClassName("abstract")[0] ?

New comment by billconan in "HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)"

billconan — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:48:21 +0000

 abstract text ...

author one

author two

should be just:

[abstract]

abstract text

[authors]

author one | email | affiliation

author two | email | affiliation

New comment by billconan in "HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)"

billconan — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:42:18 +0000

I don't think HTML is the right approach. HTML is better than PDF, but it is still a format for displaying/rendering.

the actual paper content format should be separated from its rendering.

i.e. it should contain abstract, sections, equations, figures, citations etc. but it shouldn't have font sizes, layout etc.

the viewer platforms then should be able to style the content differently.