These days, running `/usage` in Claude Code shows you how close you are to the session and weekly limits. Also available in the web interface settings under "Usage".
Super helpful, thanks!
Readit NewsRickHull commented on Claude Haiku 4.5 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete
If I'm close to weekly limits on Claude Code with Anthropic Pro, does that go away or stretch out if I switch to Haiku?
RickHull commented on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/tosh
Something I hadn’t thought about before with the V-K test: in the setting of the film animals are just about extinct. The only animal life we see are engineered like the replicants.
I had always thought of the test as about empathy for the animals, but hadn’t really clocked that in the world of the film the scenarios are all major transgressions.
The calfskin wallet isn’t just in poor taste, it’s rare & obscene.
Totally off topic, but thanks for the thought.
I had never picked up on the nuance of the V-K test. Somehow I missed the salience of the animal extinction. The questions all seemed strange to me, but in a very Dickian sort of way. This discussion was very enlightening.
RickHull commented on How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
The "time boxing" is coming to be one of my favorite aspects of the roguelite genre. It's a nice structure for a combination of a deep and compelling game, that opens up at a reasonable speed, but also doesn't call for 80 hours to "finish" it. I like JRPGs but even so they quite often overstay their welcome. Death may wipe nearly all your progress but you can easily try again in another timebox.
(I played some of the classic Roguelikes, and spent a lot of time with Angband, but that was one of their problems... winning still took many hours, could easily be dozens, and so death became very scary. They were on to something, but the modern rebalancing of "hand it all out more quickly, and resolve the game in an hour or two and let them come back" seems a much more practical approach in a lot of ways.)
I never played Angband but got into the closely related Sil. Totally agree on your characterization (and a fan of your HN posts for well over a decade).
RickHull commented on Rethinking the C Time API oliverkwebb.github.io/art... · Posted by u/oliverkwebb
I don't have time to get into it every time that guy's name comes up.
Basically he's best known for:
* Jargon file
* Parading himself around as "Mr open source" in the late 90s
* Working on what by all accounts was a not very good mail client a long time ago
That's the "good" side that's supposed to give him credibility as an expert, and it's not very much. The negative stuff is pretty bad.
The Art of Unix Programming
RickHull commented on Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System jellyfin.org/... · Posted by u/doener
My media center is a laptop with a broken screen, running Arch Linux and Kodi. Kodi has a web interface that you can stream to. Why might I want to add Jellyfin?
RickHull commented on Why aren't we all serverless yet? varoa.net/2025/01/09/serv... · Posted by u/srvaroa
Because we use Nix recipes to deploy our Datalog-ish backend connectors that talk to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk via a bespoke database we wrote in Julia that's deployed on Snowflake Container Cloud. But there's a missing backslash somewhere and nobody can find it because even ChatGPT cannot decipher the error messages.
Maybe it's an expired certificate but the guy who knew how that stuff works built a 12,000 line shell script that uses awk, perl, and a cert library that for some reason requires both CMake and Autotools. It also requires GCC 4.6.4 because nobody can figure out how to turn off warnings are errors.
The problem with astronaut architecture is that nobody tells you about (or has a handle on) all the space junk.
Extremely sad. There basically is nothing like Anandtech; the depth, the ability to explain, the lack of sensationalism, and the integrity in benchmarking (I still vividly remember when they noticed an issue with HPET in Windows affecting their benchmarks, and promptly pulled all of them offline until they could reassess). Chips and Cheese is great but only covers a certain segment of it.
In the end, I would assume it just boiled down to lack of money. There were people among us who would gladly pay for this kind of coverage, but Anandtech said at some point they had considered it and couldn't find a good model. (As an aside, I pay for LWN, and I would pay for something that covered similar areas to Phoronix but actually was good.)
They should start a Substack
RickHull commented on Cybersecurity is (seemingly) pointless (Devils Advocate rant) · Posted by u/hdnnn
Cybersecurity has two sides: business and tech. It is invaluable to the business side, particularly in terms of making risks and threats legible, demanding mitigation and insurance strategies, compliance and certification.
Cybersecurity on the tech side, for most firms, is laughable. It indeed follows the herd model, where no one ever got fired for following "best practices", like forced password rotation every two weeks with no password reuse and absurd character requirements.
It takes a firm like Google to innovate with BeyondCorp / ZeroTrust initiatives and innovations. The rest of us are waiting for npm update to finish while CrowdStrike is consuming half the CPU of our MacBook Airs.