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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Can someone explain why OpenAI credits expire?

Ask HN: Can someone explain why OpenAI credits expire? 2 by jemiluv8 | 6 comments on Hacker News. I was surprised to find out only recently that some credits I bought about a year a go were unusable because they had expired. I find this a bit concerning because it seems as though I'm being forced to use the credits. In my part of the world, that tactic is used by telcos to sell "broadband data". You buy internet bundle of about $1 and they give you expiry of about a week. This drives up the "real" price of these purchases because of the time constraint. Ultimately, if you had 1GB of data left after a week, it is all gone and you have to purchase again - further driving sales. Since this is a third world country we're talking about and telco's tend to be oligopolies and tend to also do some form of price collusion among themselves, it was generally accepted as "just how things were". But I always found it to be unfair because people should be...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are you buying your kids for Christmas?

Ask HN: What are you buying your kids for Christmas? 6 by JamesSwift | 6 comments on Hacker News. I thought this would be a helpful thing to read what others on the site were getting for their kids, along with the age of those kids. Doesnt have to be tech-oriented. EDIT: besides robux : D
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New ask Hacker News story: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target

AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target 2 by bmadduma | 0 comments on Hacker News. Working on automating small business finance (bookkeeping, reconciliation, basic reporting). One thing I keep noticing: compared to programming, accounting often looks like the more automatable problem: It’s rule-based Double entry, charts of accounts, tax rules, materiality thresholds. For most day-to-day transactions you’re not inventing new logic, you’re applying existing rules. It’s verifiable The books either balance or they don’t. Ledgers either reconcile or they don’t. There’s almost always a “ground truth” to compare against (bank feeds, statements, prior periods). It’s boring and repetitive Same vendors, same categories, same patterns every month. Humans hate this work. Software loves it. With accounting, at least at the small-business level, most of the work feels like: normalize data from banks / cards / invoices apply deterministic or configurable rules ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Relatively SoTA LLM Agents from Scratch?

Ask HN: Relatively SoTA LLM Agents from Scratch? 2 by solsane | 0 comments on Hacker News. As we know, OpenAI is not so open. In 2023, I was playing with transformers, RNNs and I had an understanding how it worked from top to bottom (e.g. made my own keras, could whiteboard small nets) and I can throw things together in keras or tf pretty quick I got a job and never touched that again. Data and compute notwithstanding, how hard would it be to make a pet project foundation model using the latest techniques? I’ve heard about MoE, things like that and I figure we’re not just throwing a bunch of layers and dropout in Keras anymore.
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New ask Hacker News story: Practical Tips for Gemini 3

Practical Tips for Gemini 3 3 by xiaoru | 0 comments on Hacker News. 1. Turn Any Screenshot into a Structured Note Screenshot (meeting notes/webpage/paper/etc.): Extract key text; Summarize as clear bullet points; Create 3–5 to-dos with due dates & owners (TBD). 2. “One‑Click” Spreadsheet Analyst “upload a spreadsheet image / CSV of your data. Describe the main patterns in plain language. Suggest 3 charts that best explain the data and describe what each chart should show. Point out anomalies or data quality issues.” 3. Context‑Aware Refactor Coach for Code “From screenshots/pasted text, infer code architecture and file roles. Suggest a step-by-step refactor plan. For Step 1 only: provide exact code changes—await your approval before Step 2.” 4. Auto‑Generate Test Cases from Real UIs “Upload app/web screenshots → Identify interactive elements → Generate test-case table: [Element, Expected behavior, Edge cases] → Suggest automated test ideas for Playwright/Cypress/Appium (no full...
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New ask Hacker News story: Console.text() – SMS alerts when code executes

Console.text() – SMS alerts when code executes 3 by Noel04 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! I built console.text() - a tool that texts you when specific code paths execute in production. The idea came from Jason Goodison's YouTube video about micro-SaaS products. I'd been stuck in tutorial hell for months, so I decided to just ship something. What it does: npm install @holler2660/console-text const { init } = require("@holler2660/console-text"); init({ apiKey: 'ct_live_xxx' }); console.text('Payment failed', { userId: '123' }); // → SMS arrives in 5-10 seconds Try it: https://soorajdmg.github.io/Console-text/ Why this vs Sentry/PagerDuty? Those are great for teams. This is for solo devs and side projects who want dead-simple alerts without the setup overhead. If you know console.log(), you already know how to use it.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?

Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored? 2 by brihati | 0 comments on Hacker News. Problem with ambiguous boundaries, messy constraints and no linear path to a solution
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