Hacker News: bjclark

New comment by bjclark in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

bjclark — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:40:00 +0000

I work at a smallish public tech company and while this may be true at some companies, it's not true at all of them. We have almost no SaaS vendors. If we do have to buy software, we're almost only interested in On-Prem.

New comment by bjclark in "Ruby already solved my problem"

bjclark — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 18:10:14 +0000

Ruby’s performance has not been a bottleneck for multiple companies that have IPO’d and are worth billions of dollars.

New comment by bjclark in "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work"

bjclark — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 02:08:56 +0000

I came here to say this! Ward taught me this when I paired with him every day when we worked together. It’s his, dare I say, mantra when starting a new feature.

New comment by bjclark in "The GitHub website is slow on Safari"

bjclark — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:41:27 +0000

Have you used gitlab every day in anger? I don't think you'd feel the same if you have.

New comment by bjclark in "Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users"

bjclark — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:41:27 +0000

You should actually read the paper. N size of 16. Only 1 of which had used cursor more than 40 hours before. All people working in existing code bases where they were the primary author.

New comment by bjclark in "Claude 4"

bjclark — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:56:32 +0000

You’re both focusing on “doing blackmail” and the real WTF is that it’s doing it seemingly out of a sense of self preservation (to stop the engineer from taking it offline). This model is going full Terminator.

New comment by bjclark in "The great displacement is already well underway?"

bjclark — Tue, 13 May 2025 22:45:05 +0000

As someone with an 18 yr old account here, this site turned into engineering LARPing much farther back than 2 years ago.

New comment by bjclark in "The hardest working font in Manhattan"

bjclark — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:24:34 +0000

The BBC Micro keycaps were made by Comptec (mentioned in the article) in Gorton Modified. Source: I work at signature plastics and have seen the original tooling for it.

New comment by bjclark in "The hardest working font in Manhattan"

bjclark — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:21:35 +0000

The author wrote a whole coffee table book called “Shift Happens”. But it was a one and done kickstarter.

New comment by bjclark in "Android XR"

bjclark — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 01:09:41 +0000

Someone at Google actually got Apple to kill the Juno app on vOS because they decided to make this. Imagine that being your job.

New comment by bjclark in "Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?"

bjclark — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:58:56 +0000

Distributed startup founder here. We love Figma, keep in touch with Gather.town, and have been very happy with Flat.app for keeping us from Asana/Slack hell.

New comment by bjclark in "Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes"

bjclark — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 19:46:16 +0000

Piracy here means that you can sell 50k tickets to the same seat with a real valid rotating barcode.

New comment by bjclark in "Justice Department to file antitrust suit against Live Nation"

bjclark — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 03:34:03 +0000

And if you disbelieve this or want to see proof, check out Live Nations 10-k from 2015.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1335258/000133525816...

"Ticketing. Our Ticketing segment is primarily an agency business that sells tickets for events on behalf of our clients and retains a fee, or “service charge”, for these services. We sell tickets for our events and also for third-party clients across multiple live event categories, providing ticketing services for leading arenas, stadiums, amphitheaters, music clubs, concert promoters, professional sports franchises and leagues, college sports teams, performing arts venues, museums and theaters. We sell tickets through websites, mobile apps, ticket outlets and telephone call centers. During the year ended December 31, 2015, we sold 69%, 21%, 7% and 3% of primary tickets through these channels, respectively. Our Ticketing segment also manages our online activities including enhancements to our websites and bundled product offerings. During 2015, our Ticketing business generated approximately $1.6 billion, or 22.6%, of our total revenue, which excludes the face value of tickets sold. Through all of our ticketing services, we sold 160 million tickets in 2015 on which we were paid fees for our services. In addition, approximately 297 million tickets in total were sold using our Ticketmaster systems, through season seat packages and our venue clients’ box offices, for which we do not receive a fee. Our ticketing sales are impacted by fluctuations in the availability of events for sale to the public, which may vary depending upon event scheduling by our clients. As ticket sales increase, related ticketing operating income generally increases as well."

$1.6b of revenue selling 297m tickets. $5.79 per ticket. So you are paying $20 fees on a ticket, who do you think gets that money if it isn't Ticketmaster?

New comment by bjclark in "Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization"

bjclark — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 22:01:15 +0000

Zero to one is considered “R&D” and that’s what this entire thing is about.

New comment by bjclark in "Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff"

bjclark — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 04:57:08 +0000

99% of page views? Absolutely. Mr Beast absolutely has a YouTube contract and absolutely drives percentage points of traffic.

New comment by bjclark in "Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff"

bjclark — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 04:55:19 +0000

> Unless there's some kind option where youtube or twitch signs a contract with select creators and then hands them huge sums of cash upfront for the costs of future content production, or to license the creator's existing content to distribute via youtube/twitch

That’s exactly how it works. And the fractions (on Twitch) are between 50% to 70%.

New comment by bjclark in "Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff"

bjclark — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:30:05 +0000

When twitch was acquired by Amazon the rumor was that they were the single biggest AWS customer and they were going to go out of business because they didn’t have the cash to pay the bills. It would have been bad for AWS and Amazon was investing in games. If you read between the lines that’s basically said in this article from that time. https://www.vox.com/2014/8/26/6067085/amazon-twitch-tv-video...

New comment by bjclark in "Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff"

bjclark — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:23:22 +0000

I’m the founder and cto of a niche streaming platform. You don’t need to be google scale. You do need a different business model.

New comment by bjclark in "Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff"

bjclark — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:22:21 +0000

You’ve never heard of partnered twitch streamers or YouTube rev share?

New comment by bjclark in "Twilio: Someone broke into our AWS S3 silo, added 'non-malicious' code to JS SDK"

bjclark — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 19:19:33 +0000

> all documented in detail

Thanks for the giggle.