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Re:Is Claude Code 5x Cheaper Than Cursor? on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:37PM (#47617540)

That's interesting, b/c that research from a few months ago seems to line up with the article. The article actually calls out 38x when you compare CC with Cursor's API token pool only. But then when you add in the Composer tokens, it becomes 5x. Obviously Composer's a different level of model than Sonnet/Opus.

Ask HN: Book/site for biz-type to understand the website he's outsourcing?

Posted by montooner on Sunday August 01, 2010 @02:41PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I want to help out a business-type friend by giving him the information he needs to understand what he's buying when he outsources his website. He's going to be investing in a web presence for his startup company, and they don't have a CTO to coordinate (a) which web services (shared host/domain/SSL) he needs to buy, and (b) how the web technologies break down so he can begin to understand the...

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Re:Ask HN: What are your best life hacks/best tools in life/time savers? on Thursday June 10, 2010 @08:35AM (#1419831)

excellent number 6.

Re:Google Adds A Background Image To Its Homepage on Thursday June 10, 2010 @08:30AM (#1419818)

The text is grey in the white background! What the hell!

Re:Stephen Colbert makes Bing donate $100K for oil spill on Thursday June 10, 2010 @08:26AM (#1419805)

Does anyone else find it amusing that Bing's approached Colbert, whereas Google seems to support Stewart pretty hard?

Re:Google Says It Collected Private Data by Mistake on Saturday May 15, 2010 @03:23PM (#1350479)

"In a confession... that is sure to raise new questions about its privacy policies..." The data wasn't private! Questions should not be posed about a nonexistent point.

Re:Thoughts on Flash on Thursday April 29, 2010 @10:01AM (#1304394)

Does Javascript not use rollovers?

Re:Ask HN: What steps should I take to find a front ender? (And not be... on Thursday March 11, 2010 @06:13PM (#1185250)

Sweet. I'll add that to my list and start doing the legwork.

Re:Ask HN: What steps should I take to find a front ender? (And not be... on Thursday March 11, 2010 @06:11PM (#1185241)

Thanks- I think I'll start digging around there to see if I can find anything.

Re:Ask HN: What steps should I take to find a front ender? (And not be... on Thursday March 11, 2010 @06:09PM (#1185235)

Thanks- sortfolio looks amazing. This was one of the things I was looking for. Also appreciate the tips.

Re:Ask HN: What steps should I take to find a front ender? (And not be... on Thursday March 11, 2010 @06:08PM (#1185232)

Redesigned to what level? As for CMS, more than willing to do that myself.

Ask HN: What steps should I take to find a front ender? (And not be ripped off)

Posted by montooner on Thursday March 11, 2010 @05:42AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Front end/graphics has always been my Achilles heel. This project that I'm working on (www.mgxcopy.com) is long overdue for a design refactoring, and I want to find someone/some-firm whom will (a) generate programmatically clean code that I can work with and be seo friendly and (b) I may be able to call upon for further work on the site.I want to up the visual quality as well as the...

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