<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>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:48:30 +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 "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>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:55:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373498</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373498</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "Show HN: BioTradingArena – Benchmark for LLMs to predict biotech stock movements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used to work for a human that did this (sits mostly on the classical therapeutics side). He actually started a business where he was reviewing and auditing the submission processes outlining approvals but he had been around the game enough to know where the next submission would put them in the approvals process for a number of agencies.<p><a href="https://maestrodatabase.com/" rel="nofollow">https://maestrodatabase.com/</a><p>Looks like he's still on top of everything given the most recent blog post is from 6/2/2026.<p>I believe the insights here could be useful given he has sense of when the penultimate submission has occured (but I'm not entirely sure what that is on a % basis nor as a basis for if the stock of the company reacts)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:42:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919151</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919151</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, but it's specifically testing things that implement against a posix API (because generally that's what "native" apis do (omiting libc and other os specific foundation libraries that are pulled in at runtime or otherwise) I would suspect that if the applications that linked against some wasi like runtime it might be a better metric (native wasi as a lib/vs a was runtime that also links) mind you that still wouldn't help the browser runtime... But would be a better metric for wasm (to native) performance comaparison.<p>But as already mentioned we have gone through this all before. Maybe we'll see wasm bytecodes pushed through silicon like we did the Jvm... Although perhaps this time it might stick or move up into server hardware (which might have happened, but I only recall embedded devices supporting hardware level Jvm bytecodes).<p>In short the web browser bit is omitted from the title.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 01:13:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45817894</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45817894</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45817894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "An Efficient Implementation of SELF (1989) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or toit, which unsurprisingly has Lars Bak involved. A man with history touching all self, Jvm and v8 codebases.<p>I wouldn't be surprised if toit primaries, Kasper or Florian also have experience in these technological intersections.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 23:47:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716052</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716052</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "Bluefin LTS Is Released"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps if a supply chain attack is your largest concern then using some well vetted system like wolfi is more up your alley. (See some of their related repos on GitHub <a href="https://github.com/projectbluefin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/projectbluefin</a> - I've been following the development of it and currently it still under development.)<p>Again "vetting" is a source of contention here as I'm not sure how the quality of official rpm sources compare to those outlined in an sbom</p>
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<p>Yeah, but there is something else here too... I used cachy for a heartbeat and it advertises the same benefits; it just felt slower (notably on boot) Maybe it was just all the graphical load screens.<p>There's something clear had that made it feel modern, familiar and boring (which might not be for everyone) 90% of my tasks were in vscode devcontainers so kept things simple and out of the system for the most part.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:52:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44611525</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44611525</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44611525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "Shutting Down Clear Linux OS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fingers crossed. I probably just did my last fresh install of this a couple of days ago and my last swupd update now. You will be missed...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:44:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44611479</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44611479</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44611479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "RAG Is a Fancy, Lying Search Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do love the warnings here... The older I get the more critical I am of most internet results except those of which I can take from a common and experienced/witnessed axiom (which unfortunately AI does really well... At least entrusting me to said point). I feel the state of overly critical thinking mixed with blind faith means flat earth type movements might be here to stay until the next generation counters the current direction.<p>But to the article specifically; I thought RAG's benefit was you could imply prompts of "fact" from provided source documents/vector results so the llm results would always have some canonical reference to the result?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 02:08:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44280082</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44280082</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44280082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I must say this is amazing. The psychology and manipulation makes me realize how poor I am regarding trust even when the other side is pushing for some unconfirmed equilibrium.<p>In the game I acknowledge that I was aligned to the "Simpleton" strategy (before it was outlined). Looks like simpleton might actually be applicable in a more general sense too which is a little disheartening.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 01:03:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036709</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "LSP client in Clojure in 200 lines of code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah I feel yah; But to bolster the post:<p>I now want to hear more as to why Defold now has a clojure repl! I noticed some musings around some native bindings in gh issues which is "interesting" but I'm not quite getting it. I guess off to the forums I go!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 00:14:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43958402</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43958402</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43958402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no root or containers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is where I need to shout out to everyone's favorite developer Justine for keeping Linux cool:<p><a href="https://justine.lol/pledge/" rel="nofollow">https://justine.lol/pledge/</a><p>Which also points to landlock-make[0] or vice-versa (the original project that made me aware of the kernel functionality (although didn't realize it also isolated network which is great).<p>[0]<a href="https://justine.lol/make/" rel="nofollow">https://justine.lol/make/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:57:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43449696</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43449696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43449696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Italo Calvino was noted as being of great inspiration to Jonathan Blow (as a relative point of interest on the OP's question)<p>I think during one of the Braid 20th anniversary podcasts[0] he talks to it which I loved listing to (from a historic viewpoint; well moreso than a game dev/design)<p>[0]<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/7t7FUL1e9vMCLWpKqcknAL?si=B_Bd4sRJT3a6l6SCu7zzlQ%0A" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/show/7t7FUL1e9vMCLWpKqcknAL?si=B_Bd...</a></p>
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<p>Yeah I agree. The dithering effects in Everybody wants to crank the world[0] are much more visually satisfying but as you pointed out perhaps it's the levels of the textures that make it feel... Well like textures.<p>[0] <a href="https://aras-p.github.io/demo-pd-cranktheworld/" rel="nofollow">https://aras-p.github.io/demo-pd-cranktheworld/</a></p>
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<p>It's a shame that fanotify[0] wasn't pointed out in this document also.<p>Only since seeing it used in 'zigs --watch' impl on Linux[1] (and the fact that I need to enable admin capabilities to run this in a container) has informed me of it's existence.<p>0. <a href="https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.ht...</a><p>1. <a href="https://ziggit.dev/t/initial-implementation-of-zig-build-watch-just-landed-in-master-branch/5117/8" rel="nofollow">https://ziggit.dev/t/initial-implementation-of-zig-build-wat...</a></p>
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<p>Um? Should it be noted that cosmopolitan is currently at version 4?<p><a href="https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/4.0.2">https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/4.0.2</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 22:54:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903333</link><dc:creator>bjconlan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903333</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjconlan in "AMD says Intel's 'horrible product' is causing Ryzen 7 9800X3D shortages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it indirectly is (in the form of TSMC) as Intel have started to use TSMC fabs for some of their processor lines and I think this is eating into AMD (and other TSMC customers) production.<p>They had the same problem with apple and the 4nm fabs, but couldn't exactly say anything as smearish.</p>
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<p>Haha, oh I miss the Quebecois. Appropriation of Catholic vernacular make for the best profanities.</p>
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