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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's the latest concensus on OpenAI vs. Anthropic $20/month tier?

Ask HN: What's the latest concensus on OpenAI vs. Anthropic $20/month tier? 2 by whatarethembits | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm considering $20/month variants only. I've had a Claude subscription for the past year, although I only really started properly using LLMs in the past couple of months. With Opus, I get about 5 messages every 5 hours (fairly small codebase); more with Sonnet. I then cancelled that, since its practically unusable and got ChatGPT sub about a week ago. Currently using it with 5.4 High and I haven't had to worry about limits. But the code it produces is definitely "different" and I need to plan more in advance. Its plan mode is also not as precise as with Claude (it doesn't lay out method stubs it plans to implement etc) so I suppose I may need to change how I work with it? Lastly, for normal chats it produces significantly more verbose output (with personality set to Efficient) and fast (with Thinking) but often it feels as thoug...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?

Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money? 2 by bhaviav100 | 1 comments on Hacker News. My agents retry a bit more than it should, and there goes my bill up in the sky. I tried figuring out what is causing this but none of the tools helped much. and the worse thing for me is that everything shows up as aggregate usage. Total tokens, total cost, maybe per model. So I ended up hacking together a thin layer in front of OpenAI where every request is forced to carry some context (agent, task, user, team), and then just logging and calculating cost per call and putting some basic limits on top so you can actually block something if it starts going off the rails. It’s very barebones, but even just seeing “this agent + this task = this cost” was a big relief. It uses your own OpenAI key, so it’s not doing anything magical on the execution side, just observing and enforcing. I want to know you guys are dealing with this right now. Are you just watching aggregate usage a...

New ask Hacker News story: Someone is flagging political posts

Someone is flagging political posts 3 by xvxvx | 3 comments on Hacker News. Today alone I’ve seen articles shared from The Guardian and The Washington Post flagged and removed. What did they have in common? Reporting on war crimes by Israel and the US. I’ve seen the downvote and flagging campaign increase here by the week. Will HN please do something about this manipulation?

New ask Hacker News story: I built an AI that tailors your CV to every job in seconds

I built an AI that tailors your CV to every job in seconds 2 by alebarbon | 0 comments on Hacker News. I built Ceeve after going through the job application process myself as a student. What frustrated me most wasn’t the effort, but the inefficiency—rewriting the same CV over and over, trying to guess what each recruiter actually wanted, and often getting no feedback. At some point I realized the problem: most people apply with the same CV everywhere, but every job is different. So I built Ceeve. It lets you: tailor your CV to a specific job description in seconds generate personalized cover letters track applications in one place The goal isn’t to automate everything blindly, but to help people align their experience with what each role is actually looking for. It’s still early, but it’s already been used by students at Bocconi, Imperial, and LSE, and was recently mentioned by Speedinvest among emerging AI startups in Europe. I’m trying to understand what actually helps people get ...

New ask Hacker News story: Fear of Missing Code

Fear of Missing Code 3 by lukol | 3 comments on Hacker News. Talking to developer (and increasingly non-developer) friends of mine, the following pattern has emerged: Many of them are caught in a "just one more feature" loop that keeps them awake late at night, destroys their sleep cycles and has them wondering every waking hour if they spend their Claude Code Max subscription as effectively as possible. You could actually be building a feature while you're grabbing dinner or hitting the gym, so why don't you? Combined with the fact that the current state of AI assisted coding is still far from perfect, this leads to exhaustion. Letting your agent do its thing fully unsupervised only works in few scenarios and reviewing (or at least: QA-ing) the countless things that were built while you were spending time with your friends / family / pets is mentally taxing. How are you handling this?

New ask Hacker News story: I built a $15k Mac app for a random Reddit user

I built a $15k Mac app for a random Reddit user 3 by fujilovesapps33 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Someone on Reddit needed an app to solve a problem we both had. That comment turned into a $15k project and months of DIY work. Here's the story: https://youtu.be/-W9NdAVG_is?si=ccf7g0--opem4RIi I also ended up getting a dog too which is super cool. His name is Fuji, he's great. Happy to answer questions or share more details. Enjoy!

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: TCP/IP Illustrated e2 of v2 & v3?

Ask HN: TCP/IP Illustrated e2 of v2 & v3? 2 by mayureshkathe | 1 comments on Hacker News. I noticed that a 2nd edition of the 1st volume of "TCP/IP Illustrated" has been released by Mr Kevin Fall in 2011. Would anyone here know if there're going to be 2nd editions of 2nd and 3rd volumes too?