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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Happy New Year

Tell HN: Happy New Year 2 by schappim | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121

The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121 7 by daitandojo | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been utilizing Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro via the AI Studio front-end to develop a new platform. The 1M+ context window is, technically speaking, a game-changer for "stitching" together a 55,000-line codebase. However, I recently discovered a predatory billing architecture that I’m calling the "Context Tax." If you use the AI Studio UI, you might be walking into a massive bill without a single warning. Here is how it happened, and the UK/EU privacy "pro-tip" I found in the fine print. In AI Studio, you start on the Free Tier. You upload your codebase (say, 700k tokens) and work for free until you hit the daily quota. At that point, the UI suggests adding an API key to "continue the conversation." The Trap: Most users (myself included) assume that after adding the key, they will be billed for incremental usage (the 10-1...

New ask Hacker News story: Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket

Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket 4 by akhnid | 3 comments on Hacker News. I built Gitmore. Connects via webhooks, tracks commits and PRs, and gives you one dashboard. AI answers questions about activity, sends weekly reports to Slack/email. Connect agent to slack which answers your questions directly from your workspace. https://gitmore.io (free for 1 repo) Anyone else juggling multiple Git platforms?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you manage kids' accounts?

Ask HN: How do you manage kids' accounts? 7 by xfax | 2 comments on Hacker News. My kids are just getting to the point where I need to manage several internet accounts (iCloud, Google, Amazon Kids) and parental controls settings across several devices (iPad, Alexa, Apple Watch). It’s getting a bit confusing between passwords, content settings, notifications, payments, PINs etc. What system do you use to keep this manageable in your household?

New ask Hacker News story: TP-Link only works with a permanent internet connection

TP-Link only works with a permanent internet connection 4 by roscas | 1 comments on Hacker News. TP-Link Tapo C100 model only works with a permanent connection to their servers. The second you cut internet on the camera it powers off. Why would anyone put a "security" camera in their house with a forced connection to TP-Link servers? And what does it transmit? So my question is does anyone have a TP-Link camera that works without internet? TP-Link has a ton of cameras but I don't want any that connects to the internet. Thanks.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What Comic-books did you read in 2025?

Ask HN: What Comic-books did you read in 2025? 2 by linesofcode | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m getting back into comics this year and have been working through my back-log. In 2025 I read - Invincible (around to the same point as the show, no spoilers please) - Blacksad (I’m simply in love with the art) - Fables (picked it up many years ago but didn’t finish, really dig the “originality” of using fairy tale characters) - Absolute Batman - Absolute Martian Man-hunter - Absolute Superman What’s everyone reading or planning to read in the next year?