Hacker News with Generative AI: Cost Optimization

Medium Is the New Large (mistral.ai)
Mistral Medium 3 delivers state-of-the-art performance at 8X lower cost with radically simplified enterprise deployments.
Generative AI, Cost Optimization, Deployment
66 points by Philpax 2 days ago | 20 comments
NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs (theregister.com)
NASA's people analytics group has swapped its Neo4j graph database for Memgraph due to costs.
NASA, Databases, Cost Optimization, Graph Databases
6 points by rntn 2 days ago | 0 comments
A Full-Network Bluesky/ATProto Relay for $34 a Month (whtwnd.com)
This is an update to a Summer 2024 blog post. At the time, atproto relays required a cache of the full network on local disk to validate data structures. With the Sync v1.1 updates, relays don't need all that disk I/O. What impact does that have on hosting setup and operating costs?
Social Media, Decentralized Networks, Hosting, Cost Optimization
8 points by diggan 7 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Cheapest way to host a back end (ycombinator.com)
I'm about to help transitioning a mobile app to a charity and need the API to be hosted as cheaply as possible.
Hosting, Back End, APIs, Nonprofits, Cost Optimization
20 points by Jean-Philipe 15 days ago | 40 comments
The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing (metacast.app)
On Friday, Feb 7, 2025 we had an incident with our Next.js web app hosted on Vercel that could've cost us $7,000 if we didn't notice it in time.
Cloud Hosting, Serverless Computing, Cost Optimization
112 points by navs 25 days ago | 119 comments
Reducing Cloud Spend: Migrating Logs from CloudWatch to Iceberg with Postgres (crunchydata.com)
As a database service provider, we store a number of logs internally to audit and oversee what is happening within our systems.
Cloud Computing, Cost Optimization, Data Storage, Databases, Logging
11 points by rubiquity 44 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Why pay for Cloud Hosting if I can just use Cloudflare Tunnels for free? (ycombinator.com)
I'm paying thousands of dollars a year for AWS when it seems to me I could just buy a computer and a couple solid state drives, and host locally.
Cloud Hosting, Cloudflare, Web Hosting, Cost Optimization
7 points by EGreg 51 days ago | 7 comments
Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62% (hopsworks.ai)
In Q4 2024, we completed the migration from AWS, seamlessly transitioning thousands of users to a resilient Kubernetes-based infrastructure on OVHCloud.
Cloud Migration, Cost Optimization, Kubernetes, European Cloud
143 points by LexSiga 56 days ago | 66 comments
The Era of Solopreneurs Is Here (manidoraisamy.com)
DeepSeek just dropped a bombshell: $200M in annual revenue with a 500%+ profit margin—all while charging 25x less than OpenAI. But DeepSeek didn’t just build another AI model. They wrote their own parallel file system (3FS) to optimize costs—something that would have been unthinkable for a company of their size. This was possible because AI helped write the file system. Now, imagine what will happen in a couple of years—AI will be writing code, optimizing infrastructure, and even debugging itself.
Startup, Artificial Intelligence, Business Models, Revenue, Cost Optimization
76 points by QueensGambit 68 days ago | 100 comments
AI companies race to use 'distillation' to produce cheaper models (ft.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Machine Learning, Cost Optimization
6 points by marban 68 days ago | 1 comments
Why it's so hard to build a jet engine (construction-physics.com)
Civilization's toughest technical challenges are those that require extraordinary (and constantly improving) performance to be delivered at a low cost.
Engineering, Technology, Design, Cost Optimization
444 points by mhb 70 days ago | 209 comments
Escaping surprise bills and over-engineered messes: Why I left AWS (travisbumgarner.dev)
I love building side projects. They've been a way to push myself and explore new ideas and technologies. Each site has needed hosting. I started my hosting journey with WordPress. I moved on to raw Linux servers and finally ended up on AWS. Hosting on AWS felt like a badge of honor, but it also felt like a ticking time bomb of complexity and cost.
Cloud Computing, Web Development, Personal Experiences, Cost Optimization
129 points by theogravity 95 days ago | 155 comments
Reduce your LLM agent costs by 90% with structure-preserving HTML compression (github.com/emmetify)
Cut your LLM processing costs by up to 90% by transforming verbose HTML into efficient Emmet notation, without losing structural integrity.
Cost Optimization, HTML, Web Development, Data Compression
13 points by maledorak 101 days ago | 10 comments
How DeepSeek trained at 1/30 the price (twitter.com)
Machine Learning, Cost Optimization, Deep Learning
11 points by maxlin 102 days ago | 0 comments
DeepSeek Outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the Cost (venturebeat.com)
DeepSeek R1’s Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance.
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Cost Optimization, OpenAI, Deep Learning
4 points by jhunter1016 102 days ago | 0 comments
The Guide to AWS Lambda Cost Optimization (cloudyali.io)
Cloud Computing, AWS, Cost Optimization
3 points by heldsteel7 108 days ago | 1 comments
Ask HN: Cheapest way to run a time-series database in cloud? (ycombinator.com)
I need to run a database (preferably Postgres-based, currently using TimescaleDB) to store about 20M rows of price data per day, with the option to discard or offload data after 7d to cold storage.
Cloud Computing, Databases, Cost Optimization
12 points by cedws 111 days ago | 12 comments
Show HN: QwQ-32B APIs – o1 like reasoning at 1% the cost (ycombinator.com)
AI, Open Source, Cost Optimization
17 points by ozgune 114 days ago | 3 comments
How we saved millions on AWS (forter.com)
In early 2022, as the world was emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation surged to multi-decade highs, prompting central banks to raise interest rates.
Cloud Computing, AWS, Cost Optimization, Business
44 points by omervk 122 days ago | 8 comments
PR Previews Don't Need Vercel: My Solution on a $5 VPS (pert.dev)
Let's preface this by admitting that the title is a little farcical - the fact that Vercel and other similar sites give you preview domains out of the box with no setup is a lovely feature. This blog is purely to show you that it's actually possible to configure these yourself, and furthermore, it's way easier than you might think!
Web Development, Serverless, Cost Optimization
21 points by pure-orange 130 days ago | 0 comments
Using AZs can eat up your budget – From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics (prezi.com)
By 2024, Prezi’s monitoring system, built around Prometheus, was becoming outdated. It was already 5+ years old, running on a deprecated internal platform and accumulating a significant amount of costs every month.
Monitoring, Cost Optimization, Open Source, Cloud Computing, Prometheus
71 points by shscs911 134 days ago | 58 comments
Scalable Server SQLite Apps (servicestack.net)
Ever since adding support for Litestream in our project's templates GitHub Action Deployments we've been using SQLite as the backend for our new .NET C# Apps as it's the most cost-effective option that frees us from needing to use a cloud managed database which lets us make use of Hetzner's much cheaper US Cloud VMs.
.NET, Databases, Cloud Computing, Cost Optimization, Software Development
5 points by mythz 157 days ago | 0 comments
Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75% (bilbof.com)
Kubernetes, Cloud Computing, Cost Optimization, Infrastructure
375 points by BillFranklin 159 days ago | 221 comments
Migrating a Client onto OpenTofu for Cost and Speed [video] (youtube.com)
Cloud Computing, Open Source, Cost Optimization, Video Content, Migration
12 points by mooreds 163 days ago | 0 comments
Cutting AWS costs through inference infrastructure improvements (vannevarlabs.com)
Vannevar Labs, a defense tech startup, successfully cut machine learning (ML) inference costs by 45% using Ray and Karpenter on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).
Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Cost Optimization, Kubernetes
7 points by vannevarlabs 169 days ago | 0 comments
Delivering 15TB of 4K video with Cloudflare R2 for $2.18 (screencasting.com)
We serve a lot of video. In fact, just last month, our viewers watched over 15 terabytes of it—and with several new courses planned, our monthly bandwidth will more than double next year.
Video Streaming, Cloud Storage, Cost Optimization
70 points by peter_d_sherman 174 days ago | 14 comments
Show HN: Costco for LLM Tokens (inference.net)
inference.net is a wholesaler of LLM inference tokens for models like Llama 3.1. We provide real-time and batch inference APIs at a 50-90% discount from what you would pay together.ai or groq. If you're spending > $10K/month on inference, we can likely reduce your costs substantially. You can reach us at support@inference.net.
Generative AI, Cloud Computing, Cost Optimization
6 points by funfunfunction 191 days ago | 0 comments
Tell HN: Switched from Lightsail to Hetzner Cloud, 2 blogs for $4 a month (ycombinator.com)
After a few comments mentioned I was probably wasting money using AWS Lightsail, I finally tried out Hetzner Cloud for hosting my Ghost Blogs.
Web Hosting, Cloud Computing, Cost Optimization, Ghost CMS
11 points by 999900000999 195 days ago | 26 comments
Own Infrastructure Instead of AWS: Significantly Lower Costs, No Hidden Fees (heise.de)
37signals aims to save just under two million US dollars a year by moving out of the cloud and back into its own data center – significantly more than the initially targeted seven million dollars over five years.
Cloud Computing, Cost Optimization, Data Centers, Infrastructure, 37signals
5 points by leastangle 197 days ago | 0 comments
Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent (simonwillison.net)
The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails.
Web Scraping, Data Extraction, Automation, Cost Optimization, Efficiency
309 points by simonw 204 days ago | 46 comments