Hacker News: kinlan

New comment by kinlan in "AI can cost more than human workers now"

kinlan — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:32:15 +0000

Slopidly slop slop

Show HN: Web Push Notifications for Hacker News

kinlan — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:41:44 +0000

I built a little tool that lets you subscribe to posts, comments and users and get notified when they change.

It needs an account on val.town, but that's about it.

Also note, for top stories it can get quite chaotic.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636820

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by kinlan in "Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens"

kinlan — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:53:10 +0000

I think we still skew back to an insanely high input token ratio when you consider agentic loops. For example, when I see the tools I use do a web fetch or a search or other tool use, it's an incredibly high number of new input tokens.

New comment by kinlan in "Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens"

kinlan — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:49:13 +0000

That's actually useful to know and it aligns with what I see (I wrote the cost post)

Token Salary

kinlan — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:10:58 +0000

Article URL: https://aifoc.us/the-token-salary/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579138

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

The Prompt Is the Program

kinlan — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:14:12 +0000

Article URL: https://aifoc.us/prompt-is-the-program/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550100

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kinlan in "Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died"

kinlan — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:30:59 +0000

I still spend time in Bangor

New comment by kinlan in "The browser is the sandbox"

kinlan — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:06:44 +0000

I don't want to say Yes... but... given all of these tools are mostly built with JS and wrapped in a TUI we could probably go some way to having it run in the browser. There are fewer and fewer Node based APIs that haven't got a way to run in the browser.

New comment by kinlan in "The browser is the sandbox"

kinlan — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:44:37 +0000

I also implemented this in the example site in the post.

New comment by kinlan in "The browser is the sandbox"

kinlan — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:43:34 +0000

The title and content of my post?

New comment by kinlan in "The browser is the sandbox"

kinlan — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:40:31 +0000

Author of the linked post here, years ago there was a thing called "Magic iframes" that would allow you to move an iframe between windows - like a Service Worker before ServiceWorkers. I was always amazed by some of the things you could do, but now it seems we forget about iframes :D

New comment by kinlan in "The browser is the sandbox"

kinlan — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:39:24 +0000

You beat me to it. Thanks for sharing it

New comment by kinlan in "The browser is the sandbox"

kinlan — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:39:08 +0000

Author of the linked post here. This is actually a pretty interesting idea, I'll pass it to the team.

New comment by kinlan in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

kinlan — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:00:22 +0000

https://paul.kinlan.me/

New comment by kinlan in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

kinlan — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 23:27:23 +0000

I was Addy's manager when he was on Developer Relations.

He moved to an engineering manager role on Chrome DevTools many years ago and has recently just moved on to a different team. I don't think it's fair at all to say he's not a developer working on a product shipped to users when he led one of our most used developer tools, as well as worked on many of our developer libraries prior to moving to the Engineering manager role.

New comment by kinlan in "Google Opal"

kinlan — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:47:36 +0000

Here's the OSS repo for Google Opal: https://github.com/breadboard-ai/breadboard

New comment by kinlan in "Carlo is no longer maintained"

kinlan — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:09:29 +0000

Got it :)

New comment by kinlan in "Carlo is no longer maintained"

kinlan — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:26:10 +0000

As one of the owners of the GoogleChromeLabs org. Technically anything in this org is not officially supported as it is intended for prototypes and things that might graduate to more fully supported products if there is a fit in the market.

That all being said, I believe this particular change to this particular repo was 5 years ago.

New comment by kinlan in "Dead Framework Theory"

kinlan — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 13:15:47 +0000

I used it as an example because I felt the data was pretty clear. I also felt that it follows a very human pattern (generative tools need customers, like other tools before, so they go with what the industry is demanding).... but now we seen an acceleration.

New comment by kinlan in "Dead Framework Theory"

kinlan — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 13:14:18 +0000

Huh - that's actually pretty interesting and I hadn't thought of that as an option.. I know Preact was built as a faster alternative while being broadly compatible, but what you are describing is maybe even blending the technologies as that short circuit. neat.