<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: bjconlan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bjconlan</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:07:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bjconlan" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ax/agent substrate is focused on enterprise inference. This is squarely targeting the training and reinforcement learning patterns (it's not to say these technologies don't overlap, but perhaps closer to kube with knative & kata container support (and some level of session persistence across all 3). Or nomad... Or any orchestrator that supports multiple underlying isolation techniques.<p>I can't work out from the paper if the session can cross all 3 types of isolation (between persistence) but I'm assuming it can if it needs to evolve tool calling and security requirements.<p>In any case it feels like they're just composing and mangling technologies into a platform and not bringing much to the table (from what I've read so far; ie still using well established isolation tech and not something unexpected like a microkernel) but the outcomes are impressive</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 01:04:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872394</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872394</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "There are no "rogue" AI agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, this all reminds me of facebooks "enter your email password so we can invite your friends" play which seemed so wrong at the time... But every non technical person at the time seemed to do it and by doing so grew the network and valuation to a surreal point to where it still sits today. I still cant rationalize it. (Except the wave allowed meta to consume Instagram and WhatsApp)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:32:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871885</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871885</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "OpenAI 'agent' hacked Australia's health service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow this really getting traction in the media here. No details unfortunately and given its a federal system it's likely managed by complacency to the lowest bidder I'm not surprised they don't have a clear details yet (altho I'd imagine they'll have event logs when that one guy who knows splunk come in). Most fed level projects are mandated to use a seam and follow persistence guidelines but nobody seems to actually verify/check this so we will see)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:56:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823779</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You know you're too old when you see the company name and think! Oh I wonder what Martin Odeskey , Jonas Bonér and co are up to. Wait, didn't they become lightbend... Altho this comment takes away from what these guys are doing which legitimately sounds interesting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:52:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720437</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720437</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have an old colleague who I've been leaning on for ai things (they're more on the pulse than I) who uses cue (cuelang.org) for distributing and formalizing a set of skills/prompts.<p>It's the best thing I've come across (that I don't need to mange myself)  
<a href="https://github.com/p3bot/start" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/p3bot/start</a><p>The tool itself does more than just manage skills/prompts but I found that part of it particularly good (well new to me; not familiar with cue but the idea seems like a good fit)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:32:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49597593</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49597593</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49597593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "A Meta-Framework of Spatiotemporal Composability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do like this; but the classic 'dll hell' issue looks like it might be ignored/overlooked  (2 plugins depending on the same plugin but of different versions).<p>I do like that they've thought primarily about implementing an entire IoC in a runtime environment (which seems like an obvious necessity if you have agents changing code underneath you.<p>Anyways this looks promising for the scenarios its designed for but wholy moley (<a href="https://deepseek-harness.github.io/deepseek-harness/en/reference/capability-seams" rel="nofollow">https://deepseek-harness.github.io/deepseek-harness/en/refer...</a>); I guess spring's boot (+collection of starters) might look the same to the uninitiated or even those who remember the good ol' HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:52:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343454</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "When online commenters detect my art as AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Besides the actual topic. The portfolio is fantastic! I particularly liked the yin and yang of world hunger. <a href="https://www.davidrevoy.com/article43/yin-and-yang-of-world-hunger" rel="nofollow">https://www.davidrevoy.com/article43/yin-and-yang-of-world-h...</a>. I mean not something I want to look at on a wall for too long but it draws on my enjoyment of dark comic book illustrations while also pointing to something topical</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:08:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195566</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195566</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks, I want to add <a href="https://www.arraycast.com/2025/01/04/Decker.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.arraycast.com/2025/01/04/Decker.html</a> which introduced me to it. I wish more people had exposure to q/k/apl and think this is a great way to do it.<p>I think this is the first time I've seen this hit #1 which is nice</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:26:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063389</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063389</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "Hy3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow thanks for pointing this out! This is actually what I was hoping would happen when the deepspec stuff  dropped! And having zlab create these confirms my bias that I think open models are the way.</p>
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<p>Yeah I'm with you, this feels like a case for assertions & not a new core feature. Perhaps I'm missing something because it was promoted by Michael Fogus and has been ratified by those who would know (Alex I'm assuming). To me it doesn't pass the test of necessity as something needed at the core but at least it feels somewhat ideomatic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:32:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811876</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811876</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "Real Linux. In a browser tab. No install. No server. No Docker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a pretty harsh critique, while I see the agent related markdown the application seems measured and well applied. Hardly seems like slop; it's might be a one man show+ai agent but the direction and project composition feel like it's something that's logical and manageable.<p>I personally like the idea even as a p.o.c (inline with bellards work). I'd like to see how nostr & cloudflare workers providing out of band ops on what is effectively a container per tab.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:48:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802211</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "TorQ: Kdb+ Production Framework"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're looking to use this with the community edition I would recommend reading through <a href="https://dataintellect.com/blog/running-torq-with-kdb-x-community-edition/" rel="nofollow">https://dataintellect.com/blog/running-torq-with-kdb-x-commu...</a> as they outline some of the factors that need consideration.<p>I really do love what kdb is doing but I think maybe they lost too much momentum (and confidence) when back flipping on previous agreements for the community editions. (Which I don't think they will again with the kdb-x releases as they have a good balance this time) It would have been nice to see torqx just work (tm)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 02:32:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243989</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243989</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "QUIC has a lot going for it, but it is a large library (six figure LoC)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Redacting "I noticed that a kernel level impl is only 9000 loc (shallow dive 
<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1029851/" rel="nofollow">https://lwn.net/Articles/1029851/</a>). As it doesn't fully implement the feature set.<p>Also I noticed that Plan 9's IL protocol (avoids head of line because the type of messaging it's used for) another point pointed out in the x comments.<p>I wonder if he's focusing on consumer distributed AI inference (due to quic being browser supported) or maybe just a comment on the protocol in general.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 01:47:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202086</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202086</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "A few words on DS4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is great! I feel the same way about the deepseek v4 architecture for commodity hardware.<p>Also have enjoyed playing with <a href="https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/nanowhale-100m-base" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/nanowhale-100m-base</a> (but early days for me understanding this space)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:45:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142260</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the kind of clojure port that I always was looking for. Mostly because I thought go's core library and channels abstractions hits a simpler/nicer base API which would with the core & async apis (not to mention scratches my big beautiful binary itch)<p>Thanks for your work will definitely check it out again once I get over renewed love for cpp (26)<p><i>Edit</i> how did glojure go under my radar also a great project from the looks</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 22:48:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48079008</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48079008</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48079008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah this reminds me of my favorite stack which I never got to actually work with; luvit.io (libuv with luajit; both hot items at the time).<p>I hope this becomes a thing, typing in lua might make it easier to scale for teams (which I think is always an issue with dynamic language)<p>I really should check up on what Mr Caswell is up to. He was quite inspiring with both his diy home improvements as well as activity in the development space.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:20:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906026</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906026</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While I haven't read all the posts here I was wondering if anyone also noticed a 10% usage before their most recent weeks usage even started? (Specifically over 2026-03-27/28) I was seeing weird service outages over this time too. I suspect they're not being 100% truthful with how they are recording usage (feels like they had an agent run a backfill approximation). So they blur it with weekends rates etc.<p>Anyways I don't have the knowledge as to how to audit this (claud pro) to confirm what feels like an onboard at any cost business behavior.<p>Is anyone currently auditing through openrouter/litellm and seeing any poor correlation to the session/weekly limit?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:44:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601662</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "US to embed Palantir AI across military"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sorry, I did compose it from my phone and wasn't clear. I realize the article talks to the Maven tooling I was talking to it's data aggregation and modeling suite more generally. (And obviously would have been used as part of the Iranian engagement. The "if at all" statement was meant to be "tongue in cheek" given the current mess being reported)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:49:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483623</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483623</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "US to embed Palantir AI across military"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm curious as to how Palantir has been used during the war or Iran (if at all or does it suffer from subjective bias). I know there were larger movements at play on a political level here but I'm becoming concerned about how much one "thought group" (in private corps) is having on the world's largest war machine.  might be dulling critical thinking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:58:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472868</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472868</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Token usage and agent usage optimisation?<p>It seems like a real problem for me. Probably because I'm not overly inspired to pay for a Claude x5 subscription and really hate the session restrictions (esp when weekly expend at the end of the week  can't be utilized due to session restrictions) on a standard pro model. Most of my tasks are basically using superpowers and I find I get about 30-90m of usage per session before I run out of tokens (resets about every 4 hours after which I generally don't get back to until the next day (my weekly usage is about 50% so lots of wastage due to bad scheduling). A tool like this could add better afk like agent interoperability through batching etc as a one tool fits all like scenario.<p>If this gets its foot in the door/market-share there is plenty of runway here for adding more optimized agent utilization and adding value for users.</p>
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