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AI Focus
Personal blog · aifoc.us · on HN as kinlanaiprogramming
AI Focus is a personal blog at aifoc.us about ai and programming. Since 2025, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “The Browser Is the Sandbox”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
In March, Claude Code was 2.6 million public GitHub commits a week. In September I said 7 million. Re-run for the 52 weeks to 1 November 2026, it is 10.3 million a week, and every tool I track is in the table.
Most-linked posts?
- The Browser Is the Sandbox5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-01-25
- A link is all you need2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-09
- Token Salary2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-30
What Hacker News says?
Paul Kinlan published a blog post a couple of days ago [1] with some interesting data, that show output tokens only account for 4% of token usage. It's a pretty wide-reaching article, so here's the relevant quote (emphasis mine): > Real-world data from OpenRouter’s programming category shows 93.4% input tokens, 2.5% reasoning tokens, and just 4.0% output tokens . It’s almost entirely input. [1]: https://aifoc.us/the…
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on “Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens by 63%”Submitted Dead Framework Theory as a story · 113 points
HN discussion> https://aifoc.us/the-browser-is-the-sandbox/ which is a prototype of Claude Cowork in the browser Yup. That's the link, all right—the one that I'm citing examples from. Thanks for the reminder, I guess: it has been a whole 8 hours since I last read it. What "we" are talking about here , in this subthread, is the fact that "Browsers have had widespread support for processing files" for a long, long time, and that a…
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on “The Browser Is the Sandbox”Submitted Does a URL just sitting in a prompt steer an LLM's output toward its content? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe're talking about Simon's boosting of https://aifoc.us/the-browser-is-the-sandbox/ which is a prototype of Claude Cowork in the browser. That's what I'm saying needs read-write access.
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on “The Browser Is the Sandbox”Submitted Token Salary as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is an entry on my link blog - make sure to read the article it links to for full context, my commentary alone might not make sense otherwise: https://aifoc.us/the-browser-is-the-sandbox/
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on “The Browser Is the Sandbox”Submitted The Prompt Is the Program as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think the implication was that an LLM generated the text (which isn't an issue for me even if it was.) That all being said, I love this project and I love how you're exploring linking in other mediums. I tried to do other linking demos via https://aifoc.us/hypermedia/ - it's something we don't do anywhere near enough
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on “Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform”Submitted A link is all you need as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAssociated post by same author: interception https://aifoc.us/interception/
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on “Fauxmium – browse an infinite imaginary web”Submitted A link is all you need as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a claw-like agent to run in the browser as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Model Half-Life as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Damn Claude, that's a lot of commits as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Browser Is the Sandbox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If NotebookLM was a web browser as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Browser Is the Sandbox as a story · 1 points
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