Show HN: Thinker – Trim context and cache knowledge to extend agent usage limits
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I’ve been doing a lot of solo development lately and found myself hitting Claude token limits halfway through the week constantly. Even with a Max plan, I’d have to switch over to Codex or Cursor, and it would be a bit difficult to get used to the nuances of each harness. It’s still a problem for me, but I finally built Thinker to save me some tokens and help me get a bit more out of my coding agent subscriptions. I started off a bit in the dark about how token billing works, and had to dig…
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Show HN: Thinker – Trim context and cache knowledge to extend agent usage limits was first seen on Hacker News · Show HN on Nov 5, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 17 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #17 of 30, reached on Nov 6, 16:20 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 6, 19:20 UTC.
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cool, you mention cuts pay off after X calls, when the agent needs something that got cut, does it just re-read it? does that ever cost more than keeping it? or have some measurements around that ?
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#17 on Hacker News · Show HN, on Nov 6, 16:20 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 30 minutes.
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It was first seen on Nov 5, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (17 checks) since.
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3 points and 2 comments; submitted by yoavshmariahu on Nov 5, 2026.