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Re:Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day
on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @11:46AM (#48462640)
With oil prices and wars, the adoption for renewables and not just solar should accelerate to wean the world off oil.
Re:Show HN: Mac screen recorder that adds zoom animations from click data
on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @11:43AM (#48462608)
Love the concept. Being able to click and then have video automatically zoom makes the tutorial looks more professional.
Re:Astronauts on ISS told to shelter as repairs under way to fix air l...
on Friday June 05, 2026 @02:47PM (#48416593)
Does someone know if push come to shove, do they have a ready to go escape pod or ship to go back Earth anytime in an emergency? How many backups do they get?
Re:Show HN: Cost.dev (YC W21) – making agents cost-aware and 79% cheap...
on Friday June 05, 2026 @02:43PM (#48416540)
Tokens can get expended very quickly driving costs up substantially since there is no clarity in its usage If your service can cut the use substantially, for a large company with a huge AI bill, the savings could make up for the cost of the service which I think is pricey in my opinion. But I can see how it could work out.
Re:Show HN: Reassign – a 24-hour dial for planning your day
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @07:16PM (#48316875)
Well design and intuitive. Beat trying to put my days out in a calendar app. I think it gives a nice representation for the day and if you import in the day's event from Google Calendar , Apple or whatever, it saves some typing.
Re:Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valua...
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @07:11PM (#48316834)
If these are fake revenues, I would think that the sophisticated investors would see through that? Or everyone is just in some ponzi scheme raising valuation and letting the last investors hold the bag or eventually pass it on to retail investors buying at the peak?
Re:Show HN: Claude Code's $200 plan is a 17× subsidy on the raw API
on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @07:27PM (#48302185)
If I don't need something powerful like GPT 5.5 or Claude, I could just use Deepseek, Qwen or the cheaper chinese models. I think everyone is getting smart about routing their workload to models that are cheap but good enough to fulfill the request/task and then reserving the pricier like Claude for tasks needing higher intelligence.
Re:Show HN: A website that tracks every stock trade Congress makes
on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @05:48PM (#48301218)
useful data. thanks for putting it together. what's some of your data source?
Re:Show HN: Claude Code's $200 plan is a 17× subsidy on the raw API
on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @05:44PM (#48301170)
Does this mean Claude Code $200 plan is really costing them more to run it especially for power users or they are just ripping off people with API usage? If they are just subsidizing for the $200 plan, is it just a land grab for now? and then raise prices later?
Re:Gemini 3.5 Flash
on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @03:40PM (#48198368)
In general, Gemini flash is still relatively cheaper compared to the "mini" version of the other big 2. However, I agree that newer version seem to have multiple X price increase (similar to the new ChatGPT) and we certainly need competition from the open source models to keep these guys in check with pricing.
Re:Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists
on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @03:27PM (#48198204)
This looks like a fantastic resource for artists who find traditional wooden mannequins a bit too limiting for complex anatomy. I particularly appreciate the inclusion of the "Timed Drawing Challenge," as consistent gesture practice is such a vital part of improving one's craft. Additionally, the option to toggle biological constraints is a very clever touch for those working on more expressive or stylized character designs.
Re:Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence
on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @03:23PM (#48198143)
This is a fascinatingly minimalist project that really strips back the gacha genre to its bare essentials. I found myself surprisingly invested in trying to collect all numbers, which really highlights how powerful that core collection loop can be even without flashy graphics. The 'Roll' mechanic feels very snappy, and I appreciate the clean, distraction-free UI you've built here. It's a great interactive way to explore the psychology of probability and collection.
Re:Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS
on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @03:21PM (#48198110)
It’s great to see a modern take on the classic audio player focused on local libraries rather than just streaming. I also appreciate the transparent one-time purchase model in an era where subscription fatigue is so common among desktop tools. This looks like a solid, focused utility for power users who still value fine-grained control over their playback.
Re:Show HN: Clawputer – A personal AI assistant with a real computer a...
on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @01:46AM (#48189667)
How is it different from OpenClaw and Hermes?
Re:Show HN: Burn, baby, burn (those tokens)
on Friday May 15, 2026 @05:34PM (#48154199)
Token-maxxing is a silly idea that does not measure true productivity and quality. I can easily burn through tokens and not produce anything useful.
Re:Show HN: Race to the Bottom
on Friday May 15, 2026 @05:26PM (#48154097)
simple and effective. love the hot or not style for opinions.
Re:Show HN: An addictive phone game about phone addiction
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @01:52PM (#48111746)
I could not resist going towards the phone!!
Re:Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random cof...
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @01:39PM (#48111575)
Even if the votes are highly accurate, there is no circumstance in which I would want to leave my laptop at a Starbucks. There is a likelihood I may forget, but certainly not intentionally leaving it. That said, there are places where people leave their cell phones, keys, etc just to reserve a table in a food court while they go off to buy their food. I guess this map could be a proxy on which countries are safe to do that.
Re:Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Ant...
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @01:36PM (#48111533)
If you are just a high schooler working on this, that's freaking amazing!
Re:People Hate AI Art
on Friday May 08, 2026 @10:44PM (#48071284)
It's inevitable that AI Art will be used everywhere and haters will get desensitized due to over exposure. There is a right time and place to use real artwork vs ai art as long as someone doesn't try to claim ai art as real.
Re:Show HN: DoodleMate: Animate Your Child's Hand Drawings Without Gen...
on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @04:50PM (#48041616)
Would you say your approach is less flexible and creative vs gen AI then? Because you are bounded by what the pipeline can rig/interpret vs open-ended generation from gen AI. I suppose it does preserve the original authorship better though.
Re:Show HN: Site Mogging
on Friday May 01, 2026 @11:51AM (#47976206)
First time I come across mogging, but this looks like a automated evaluation version of a hot or not for websites.
Re:Ask HN: Do you think AI will end up like dotcom?
on Thursday April 30, 2026 @05:02PM (#47968201)
dot com heralds the internet era. there may be a bubble that time, but many enduring companies still thrives from that era. AI will be the same- its a generational change and certainly there will be pockets of bubbles where many companies will die. However, AI is the new electricity for intelligence- many of us will not be able to live without it in future just like our life gets disrupted by a blackout or the internet going down.
Re:Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things
on Thursday April 30, 2026 @04:14PM (#47967639)
It's a good start. Habbo Hotel and Club Penguin brought back the good old days playing as a kid. Honestly, I thought they were still around.