Hacker News with Generative AI: Pricing

Palma 2 (boox.com)
We will be adjusting prices for products shipped from the US warehouse. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.
Plex remote stream no longer free; Plex Pass 2x price hike (plex.tv)
You’re going to be hearing a lot from us this year—we’ve got a ton of exciting things to roll out, with even more in the planning stages. But first, we have to share some important upcoming changes to our personal media offering and our Privacy Policy that are necessary to make all this great stuff happen.
Plex no Longer Offers Free Remote Playback for Personal Media (macrumors.com)
Media platform Plex today announced that it is raising prices for the Plex Pass subscription service, marking the first price increase that Plex has introduced in a decade.
Plex price increases for 2025, remote streaming of personal media no longer free (appleinsider.com)
Plex has announced that it will no longer offer free remote streaming for personal media and says its subscription options will see a significant price increase effective April 29, 2025.
GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Cursor stealthily doubled the price of Claude-3.7-Thinking in a changelog (cursor.com)
We've transitioned to building Cursor on top of a fork of VSCodium, moving away from our previous Codemirror-based approach.
BYD undercuts Tesla around the world, by the numbers (restofworld.org)
In each of the 10 markets where both Tesla and the Chinese carmaker BYD list prices online, BYD’s lowest-cost option is cheaper than that of Tesla.
Southwest Airlines to End Free Checked Bags for First Time in 54-Year History (cbsnews.com)
AMD Announces Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D Pricing and Availability (forbes.com)
AMD announced today that its final two Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 3D V-Cache processors, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D, will be available starting March 12th and confirmed pricing.
No OpenAI, I Won't Pay $10k/Month for Your AI Agent (thetrendysoftwareideas.substack.com)
OpenAI's latest pricing strategy has completely lost the plot. Yesterday, there was a leak that OpenAI plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for "AI agents".
OpenAI Plots Charging $20k a Month for PhD-Level Agents (slashdot.org)
YouTube Premium Lite: Ad-Free Viewing for $7.99/Month (youtube)
Today we'll begin expanding our Premium Lite pilot to users in the US. Premium Lite gives viewers a new, more affordable way to enjoy most videos on YouTube ad-free for $7.99 per month. In the coming weeks, we'll also make Premium Lite available to all users in our current pilot countries - Thailand, Germany, and Australia.
Google Is Jacking Up Its Prices (jacobin.com)
Google is jacking up the monthly price for its cloud-based software. If all users paid that standard increase, it would mean an additional $7.2 billion in monthly revenue for the company.
Ask HN: Opinion on efforts to find prior art on outrageous priced drugs (ycombinator.com)
Apple debuts iPhone 16e: A powerful new member of the iPhone 16 family (apple.com)
Apple today announced iPhone 16e, a new addition to the iPhone 16 lineup that offers powerful capabilities at a more affordable price.
AWS blocking troubshooting docs behind paid premium support plan (reddit.com)
When did AWS decide that troubeshooting docs/articles require you to have a paid premium support plan....like seriously who thought this was a good idea
Microsoft 365 costs are too much (ycombinator.com)
Fellow founders, anyone else fed up with M365 turning into a commodity cash drain? What once felt like a premium productivity suite now feels like another unavoidable bill—with pricing hikes and a labyrinth of licensing options that seem designed to make us overpay. The recent price bumps and constant misselling of features force us to jump through hoops, all while we’re busy scaling our startups.
Google Cloud will start charging $1.50 / alert (cloud.google.com)
Starting no sooner than May 1, 2026, Cloud Monitoring will begin charging for the use of alerting policies.
Fair Pricing (kagi.com)
Never get lost in translation again. Today, we launch Kagi Translate, offering superior translations across 244 languages.
Deploy dedicated DeepSeek 32B on L40 GPUs ($8/hour) (lightning.ai)
Intel slashes prices of Xeon 6 CPUs by up to $5,340 (tomshardware.com)
Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email (purelymail.com)
Let's get straight to the point:
Toyota reduces price of new hydrogen car with $15,000 of free fuel (hydrogeninsight.com)
The Mirai XLE is now the cheapest new car in the US — following a sales slump attributed to high H2 fuel prices and widespread refuelling problems
Microsoft 365 Personal goes up in price by $30 (reddit.com)
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Indiana bill to end tax breaks for non-profit hospitals that overcharge patients (theguardian.com)
Indiana lawmakers are pushing to slash hospital prices after a Guardian investigation chronicled how one of the state’s largest non-profit hospital chains bought up its competition and used its market power to stick patients with some of the highest bills in the country.
Netflix price increase leaves fans furious (the-sun.com)
CUSTOMERS are fuming after Netflix confirmed another price increase on Tuesday.
End of USPS-UPS Deal Could Mean Faster Rural Delivery, but More Expensive (cowboystatedaily.com)
Rural packages are likely to get to where they’re going faster now that contract negotiations between the U.S. Postal Service and UPS have fallen apart for last-mile service. But it’s also likely to be more expensive.
Netflix Increases Prices Again (macrumors.com)
Netflix is raising its prices for all plans in several countries, including the United States, Canada, Portugal, and Argentina.
Changes to Google Maps Platform Pricing (developers.google.com)
The following addresses frequently asked questions about changes to Google Maps Platform automatic volume discounts, monthly credit, and services transitioning to Legacy status. You can also view our blog post for additional information.
FTC: Personal Data Used to Set Individualized Consumer Pricing (ftc.gov)