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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: AI is not a slippery slope, it's a waterslide

Tell HN: AI is not a slippery slope, it's a waterslide 3 by keepamovin | 2 comments on Hacker News. I found myself increasingly outsourcing the details to the AI. I forgot the details, deliberately I think. I wanted the AI to know them. Why? Because that's where the compute is. So that's where the knowledge has to live. Me re-telling it to the AI every time it misses something it didn't know, is inefficient. It takes me X time to type it, and maybe log(X) to voice type it. But then there's the inevitable back and forth, the slight misunderstandings, the corrections, etc. I realized and found myself naturally sliding down towards, just letting the AI own all the data and knowledge. Becuase it should. That's the one that has to compute with it, so why should I know about it. People think AI is a slippery slope by outsourcing our thinking. I don't think it's a slippery slope - it's a waterslide. It's just inevitable. It's gravity, taking over...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?

Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped? 3 by fandorin | 4 comments on Hacker News. I get it - LLMs do have some value, but not as much as everyone (especially those from AI labs) is trying to pitch. I can't help thinking that it's so obvious we are almost at the very top of this bubble - but here it feels like the majority of HN doesn't think like that... Yet just in 2026 we had: - AI.com was sold for $70M - Crypto.com founder bought it to launch yet another "personal AI agent" platform, which promptly crashed during its Super Bowl ad debut. - MoltBook-mania - a Reddit clone where AI bots talk to each other, flooded with crypto scams and "AI consciousness" posts. 250,000+ bot posts burning compute for what actual value? [0] - OpenClaw - a "super open-source AI agent" that is a security nightmare. - GPT-5.3-Codex and Opus 2.6 were released. Reviewers note they're struggling to find tasks the previous versions couldn't handle. The im...
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New ask Hacker News story: Dear OpenAI and Anthropic Sales Leaders

Dear OpenAI and Anthropic Sales Leaders 6 by kevinprince | 1 comments on Hacker News. We've been going through enterprise sales processes with both of you, and I've encountered some practices I haven't seen before with other B2B vendors: Usage data availability: We're being told we can't access usage data for our existing accounts unless we sign a 12-month commitment. We need this data to make an informed purchasing decision. Pricing validity: Received a pricing link with 14-day validity. On day 13, we were told pricing had doubled and the original quote wouldn't be honored. I understand AI is a fast-moving market and everyone's scaling rapidly. But these create real trust issues for procurement teams trying to make informed decisions. Has anyone else experienced similar challenges with AI vendor negotiations? I'm hoping these are isolated issues rather than emerging patterns.
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New ask Hacker News story: Cursor switches pay-per-token when your plan limit end. Calls "On-Demand usage"

Cursor switches pay-per-token when your plan limit end. Calls "On-Demand usage" 3 by hardwellvibe | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was a Cursor Pro subscriber. On January 14th, I hit my subscription usage limit. No warning. No "Hey, you've used up your included quota — want to keep going at per-token rates?" Cursor just... kept going. Silently switched me to what they call "On-Demand" billing — meaning every single token I used from that point was billed at API rates. And I had no idea. "On-Demand usage" — who interprets that as post-paid charges? Here's what gets me. I've lived in the US for years. My English is fine. But when I saw "On-Demand usage" in my account, I genuinely thought it meant usage within my subscription plan — as in, I'm using it on demand, whenever I need it. You know, like on-demand streaming. On-demand services. That's what the phrase means in literally every other context. It does not mean th...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What do you want people to build?

Ask HN: What do you want people to build? 2 by billsunshine | 2 comments on Hacker News. We do "what are you building?" threads all the time. I want to hear the other side. What's a tool, product, or service you'd actually use that nobody seems to be making? Could be a better version of something that exists, or something totally new.
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Increased 403's on the Cloudflare Dashboard

Tell HN: Increased 403's on the Cloudflare Dashboard 2 by TimCTRL | 1 comments on Hacker News. Is anyone else seeing this?
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New ask Hacker News story: A Deep Dive into Nova – A Web Framework for Erlang on Beam

A Deep Dive into Nova – A Web Framework for Erlang on Beam 3 by taure | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve put together a blog focused on Nova, a web framework built on Erlang and the BEAM VM. The goal was to create something practical and easy to follow — covering setup, routing, views, plugins, authentication, APIs, and WebSockets — with a focus on how Nova fits into the broader BEAM ecosystem. Blog: https://taure.github.io/novablog/ Nova repo: https://ift.tt/mMUYNy2 If you're interested in building fault-tolerant web apps on BEAM (and not just using Phoenix/Elixir), you might find it useful. Feedback, corrections, and suggestions are welcome.
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