Hacker News with Generative AI: Cost

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 5 days ago | 0 comments

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

Deep Learning, Hardware, Cost

14 points by AbuAssar 24 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 33 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 36 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 50 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 75 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 81 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 88 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 95 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 139 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 143 days ago | 434 comments

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

Air Conditioning, Home Improvement, Technology, Cost

2001 points by ranebo 177 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 196 days ago | 88 comments

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

History, Writing, Paper, Cost, Early Modern

69 points by Bluestein 209 days ago | 92 comments

The Cost of JavaScript (medium.com)