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Re:Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of... by cannoneyed on Thursday January 22, 2026 @01:41PM (#46723426)
Sorry about the hug of death - while I spent an embarassing amount of money on rented H100s, I couldn't be bothered to spend $5 for Cloudflare workers... Hope you all enjoy it, it should be back up now
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Re:Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of... by Octoth0rpe on Thursday January 22, 2026 @03:16PM (#46724614)
> while I spent an embarassing amount of money on rented H100s

Would you mind sharing a ballpark estimate?

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Re:Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of... by KolmogorovComp on Thursday January 22, 2026 @07:22PM (#46726856)
(Not OP) Judging by the clues in the article and trial/error, probably ~1000USD for the project.
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Re:Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of... by storystarling on Friday January 23, 2026 @08:01AM (#46731971)
Curious if the H100s were strictly for VRAM capacity? Since this is a batch job and latency doesn't really matter, it seems like you could have run this on 4090s for a fraction of the cost. Unless the model size was the bottleneck, the price to performance ratio on consumer hardware is usually much better for this kind of workload.
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