<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: gghootch</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gghootch</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:52:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gghootch" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gghootch in "Claude Haiku 5.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was waiting for this.<p>Planning on doing flash analyses of PRs that impact evals in some way, and then post comments on GitHub whenever there’s flaws in them<p>( <a href="https://evalship.com" rel="nofollow">https://evalship.com</a> )</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:21:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996747</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996747</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extra Headroom in prod: Input -34%, Output -33% across 183 Claude Code users]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://extraheadroom.com/blog/claude-code-savings-real-usage">https://extraheadroom.com/blog/claude-code-savings-real-usage</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978145">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978145</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:28:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://extraheadroom.com/blog/claude-code-savings-real-usage</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978145</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gghootch in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://nommer.ai" rel="nofollow">https://nommer.ai</a> turns recipes into 2-player mode so you can cook together<p>People seem to love the concept so far and are starting to sign up, now just need to figure out how to get them to actually use it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:55:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234448</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234448</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gghootch in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Location: Amsterdam<p>Remote: Yes<p>Willing to relocate: no<p>Technologies: product leadership<p>CV: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/garmdotcom/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/garmdotcom/</a><p>Email: garmtech@garm.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:48:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165906</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165906</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gghootch in "Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love it, but I want EU support!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:46:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100664</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100664</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Extra Headroom – cut Claude Code and Codex token costs by ~50%]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://extraheadroom.com/">https://extraheadroom.com/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098665">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098665</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:17:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://extraheadroom.com/</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gghootch in "Show HN: Turn any recipe into 2-player mode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If so that'd be great product feedback too :D!<p>In all serioiusness: in my experience the outcome is sort of the opposite of Overcooked. A genuinely tranquil cooking-together experience!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:01:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49036703</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49036703</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49036703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gghootch in "Show HN: Turn any recipe into 2-player mode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you!! Please post here to share what you think about it when you've had a chance to try it!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:41:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035451</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Turn any recipe into 2-player mode]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hi HN!<p>Me and my gf both love cooking, but for some reason cooking together always becomes a frustrating mess for both of us. When talking with friends about this, we discovered that many share this experience. What seems like a romantic date night opportunity always results in a more challenging dynamic than we'd all like.<p>So we decided to build an app that turns any recipe we upload into 2-player mode.<p>For us the app massively improves the cooking together experience by removing coordination friction. It basically allows each individual to focus on their own tasks: one cuts the onions, the other grates the carrots and then makes the sauce while the first grills something in the pan; and then it all comes together in the end.<p>The app is also of huge help when we're both too tired and don't feel like cooking: by spreading the workload cooking becomes a much lighter effort for both.<p>If that sounds appealing please do try it out!<p>iPhone: <a href="https://nommer.ai/ios" rel="nofollow">https://nommer.ai/ios</a><p>Android: <a href="https://nommer.ai/android" rel="nofollow">https://nommer.ai/android</a></p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035032">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035032</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 4</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:10:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://nommer.ai/</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gghootch in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mobile app that turns any recipe into 2-player mode, so you can cook together. Kind of like overcooked IRL.<p><a href="https://nommer.ai" rel="nofollow">https://nommer.ai</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:47:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48889236</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48889236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48889236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gghootch in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm working on Nommer - an app that turns recipes created for 1 chef into 2-player mode so you can cook together.<p><a href="https://nommer.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://nommer.ai/</a> has a waitlist, planning to ship v1 by end of month.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:18:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539166</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539166</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Reduce Claude Code token usage ~50% with Headroom]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hi HN!<p>For the past few months I've been building a Mac Menu Bar app that reduces your claude code token usage costs by ~50%.<p>This unlocks about 2x more usage within your same Claude Code plan.<p>Users seem to like it so far.<p>60 DAUs who together have saved 10.5B tokens so far, representing about $35k in savings.<p>I'd love for the community to try it out and get your feedback. It's admittedly still a bit rough around the edges so any bug reports are more than welcome too!</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322017">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322017</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 11:59:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://extraheadroom.com/</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322017</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gghootch in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://extraheadroom.com" rel="nofollow">https://extraheadroom.com</a><p>Menu bar app that reduces your Claude Code token costs by ~50% so you get 2x more usage out of your plan.<p>People seem to like it so far :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:04:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089478</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gghootch in "Claude Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for sharing your experiences. We incorporated changes in the latest version to improve this:<p>1. On install we explain what Headroom installs
2. We added an uninstall feature that removes all of this for you
3. On quit of the app, we immediately remove all items that may intervene with normal Claude Code behavior</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:18:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846500</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846500</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gghootch in "Claude Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for the feedback, will work on making this more transparent so future users do not have this experience.<p>I did want to call out that headroom is not based on RTK - it includes RTK sure, but headroom cli has a lot more going on under the hood. For more see <a href="https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:53:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803856</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gghootch in "Claude Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Way better. You don’t notice it’s there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:13:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797329</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797329</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gghootch in "Claude Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Caveman is fun, but the real tool you want to reduce token usage is headroom<p><a href="https://github.com/gglucass/headroom-desktop" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gglucass/headroom-desktop</a> (mac app)<p><a href="https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom</a> (cli)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:55:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795229</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gghootch in "Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, the change has been very noticeable imo.<p>Did you already try tools that can help to reduce token usage cost so you can get more prompts in within your same plan? Some great ones are<p><a href="https://github.com/gglucass/headroom-desktop" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gglucass/headroom-desktop</a><p><a href="https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk</a><p><a href="https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom</a><p><a href="https://github.com/samuelfaj/distill" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/samuelfaj/distill</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:49:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686800</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686800</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gghootch in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What does this have to do with OpenClaw exactly?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:58:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666993</link><dc:creator>gghootch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666993</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Headroom – Get 2x Claude Code usage by optimizing input data]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hi HN!<p>Frustrated with Claude Code usage limits I stumbled upon the awesome Headroom project by Tejas Chopra. After jumping through the hoops to install it, I realized the majority of devs don't necessarily use python and aren't comfortable just installing pip packages so I set out to create a Mac App wrapper with Tejas blessing. Here it is!<p>What Headroom does: It sits between your editor and Claude, compressing what gets sent — trimming redundant context, stripping boilerplate, and compressing documents — without dropping anything semantically meaningful. The result is roughly 2x more usage out of the same Claude plan.<p>Everything runs locally. Your prompts never touch our servers.<p>Pricing: Free tier available. Paid plans start at $5/mo and are tiered to match Claude's own plan structure (Pro, Max x5, Max x20). 14-day trial on signup.<p>Happy to answer questions about how the compression works, or anything else.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602591">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602591</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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