Hacker News with Generative AI: Budget

Sneak Preview of 2026 NASA Budget Is a Science-Killing Horror Show (gizmodo.com)
After weeks of uncertainty, it appears that the Trump administration is preparing to gut NASA, based on a preliminary budget that would see the space agency’s funding nearly halved.

NASA, Space Exploration, Politics, Budget, Science

11 points by rbanffy 14 days ago | 0 comments

Politics, Climate Change, Budget, Science

16 points by breadwinner 15 days ago | 4 comments

DoD kills off HR IT project after 780% budget overrun, years of delays (theregister.com)
After blowing deadlines and budgets for years, the Pentagon has finally pulled the plug on a troubled project to overhaul its outdated civilian HR IT systems.

Government, Technology, IT, Project Management, Budget

15 points by LinuxBender 33 days ago | 4 comments

Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget (ewintr.nl)
As everyone is well aware, the world is still going nuts trying to develop more, newer and better AI tools. Mostly by throwing absurd amounts of money at the problem.

Artificial Intelligence, Personal Computing, Budget, DIY

384 points by marban 75 days ago | 230 comments

Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget (ewintr.nl)
As everyone is well aware, the world is still going nuts trying to develop more, newer and better AI tools. Mostly by throwing absurd amounts of money at the problem.

Artificial Intelligence, Personal Computing, Budget

10 points by todsacerdoti 76 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: I have $5k to spend on a local AI machine, what should I get? (ycombinator.com)
I would like to run local models as large and as fast as possible for around $5,000 USD. Is an Apple machine the best choice with their shared memory or is there a particular GPU that would be more cost effective? Thanks!

Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Personal Computing, Budget

17 points by siltcakes 88 days ago | 20 comments

Stretching Each Dollar: Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget (github.com/SonyResearch)
This repository provides a minimalistic implementation of our approach to training large-scale diffusion models from scratch on an extremely low budget.

Generative AI, Machine Learning, Budget, Resources, Software

3 points by tylergem 100 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2024 (ycombinator.com)
Someone asked this at the beginning of last year [0] and the year before [1] and I got a lot of great ideas from the comments.

Product Recommendations, Budget, Life Hacks

57 points by mooritzvc 108 days ago | 109 comments

Graphics Cards, Gaming, Hardware, Budget, Intel

55 points by akmittal 134 days ago | 18 comments

Taxation, Finance, Budget, Politics, United States

13 points by tldrthelaw 241 days ago | 113 comments

Diffusion Models, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Budget

208 points by fzliu 270 days ago | 27 comments