Hacker News with Generative AI: Cost

Edison to Bury More Than 150 Miles of Lines in LA Fire Area (bloomberg.com)
Edison International’s utility said it plans to bury more than 150 miles (241 kilometers) of electrical lines at a cost of as much as $925 million as part of a massive rebuilding effort in Los Angeles-area neighborhoods devastated by January wildfires.

Utilities, Infrastructure, Wildfires, California, Cost

6 points by JumpCrisscross 13 days ago | 1 comments

Medicare Bleeds Billions on Pricey Bandages, and Doctors Get a Cut (nytimes.com)
Seniors across the country are wearing very expensive bandages.

Healthcare, Medicare, Cost, Politics, Senior Citizens

8 points by gigalord 15 days ago | 0 comments

LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs (computerworld.com)

LibreOffice, Microsoft Office, Software, Cost

347 points by cable2600 29 days ago | 218 comments

DeepSeek-V3-0324 Crushes GPT-4.5 in Math and Code Benchmarks at 1/277 the Cost (deepseek.com)

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Benchmarking, Cost

10 points by kong75 31 days ago | 2 comments

GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cost, Pricing

296 points by decide1000 41 days ago | 257 comments

Pollution from Big Tech's data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn (ft.com)
Pollution from Big Tech’s data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn

Big Tech, Data Centers, Environmental Impact, Public Health, Cost

201 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 61 days ago | 160 comments

Yes you built that but at what cost? (abhinavomprakash.com)
You tighten the last screw on the bridge. Feeling triumphant you raise your hands and cheer. Your crew cheers. The bridge is five years too late but it is done. The people you started with are no longer with you. But they were traitors and disloyal people. “Tough times don’t last, tough people do” you utter to yourself, rationalizing the loss of your entire team.

Management, Leadership, Team Dynamics, Success, Cost

9 points by lazyfolder 69 days ago | 0 comments

How to run Deepseek-R1 locally for only $6000 (twitter.com)

Deep Learning, Hardware, Cost

14 points by AbuAssar 87 days ago | 10 comments

OpenAI crawler burning money for nothing (ycombinator.com)
OpenAI crawler burning money for nothing

OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Cost

12 points by babuskov 96 days ago | 11 comments

Firebase bill is usually $50, but I was surprised to see a $70k bill in one day (twitter.com)

Firebase, Cloud Computing, Billing, Surprises, Cost

117 points by plainOldText 99 days ago | 158 comments

Ask HN: Why Google Photos still so expensive when storage is so much cheaper? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Why Google Photos still so expensive when storage is so much cheaper?

Google Photos, Cloud Storage, Pricing, Cost, Tech

9 points by sh_tomer 114 days ago | 4 comments

Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance (androidauthority.com)
With extra performance costing an arm and a leg, perhaps it's time to focus on other important phone attributes.

Mobile Phones, Performance, Cost

269 points by thunderbong 138 days ago | 419 comments

Falcon 9 reaches a flight rate 30 times higher than shuttle at 1/100th the cost (arstechnica.com)
SpaceX recently hit some notable milestones with its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, and even in the full context of history, the performance of the vehicle is pretty incredible.

SpaceX, Rockets, Cost, History, Performance

27 points by rbanffy 144 days ago | 5 comments

Battery Replacement Costs Are Poised to Plunge: 'Cheaper Than Fixing an Engine' (insideevs.com)
Climate research firms expect the prices of lithium, a key raw material in an EV battery, to plummet in the coming years.

Battery Technology, Electric Vehicles, Lithium, Cost, Climate Research

6 points by bilsbie 152 days ago | 0 comments

Company trained GPT-4 rival with 2k GPUs –spent $3M compared to OpenAI's $80M (tomshardware.com)

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Cost

7 points by vinnyglennon 158 days ago | 1 comments

How Much Traffic a $6 VPS Server Can Handle? (youtube.com)

VPS, Web Hosting, Server Performance, Traffic, Cost

7 points by devarifhossain 202 days ago | 0 comments

A $1k Wheelchair (newmobility.com)
Tanner Green is concerned about the tiny aluminum plugs left behind when you cut 30 holes in the seat rail of a wheelchair.

Wheelchairs, Accessibility, Design, Cost

965 points by bo0tzz 206 days ago | 434 comments

Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch (hopefullyuseful.com)

Air Conditioning, Home Improvement, Technology, Cost

2001 points by ranebo 240 days ago | 478 comments

HIV drug could be made for just $40 a year for every patient (theguardian.com)

HIV, Healthcare, Cost, Medicine, Drugs

66 points by nithinj 259 days ago | 88 comments

Was early modern writing paper expensive? (2018) (folger.edu)

History, Writing, Paper, Cost, Early Modern

69 points by Bluestein 273 days ago | 92 comments

The Cost of JavaScript (medium.com)