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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How much are you spending on AI coding at work?

Ask HN: How much are you spending on AI coding at work? 3 by habosa | 1 comments on Hacker News. Jensen Huang recently said that he thinks an engineer who makes $500k should spend at least $250k a year on “tokens” which is an astounding figure. I personally don’t know how I could spend that much if I tried. Obviously he has a huge financial incentive to convince people that $250k per engineer is reasonable, but it got me thinking that it’s time for a survey. How much are you and your coworkers spending on AI coding tools at work? I’m talking about Cursor, Claude Code, etc. Not all AI-powered SaaS, just the stuff that’s metered by token.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you handle peer-to-peer discovery on iOS without a server?

Ask HN: How do you handle peer-to-peer discovery on iOS without a server? 5 by redgridtactical | 5 comments on Hacker News. I'm building an app that syncs between phones over Bluetooth when there's no cell service. Android has Nearby Connections API which handles discovery and transport nicely. iOS has Multipeer Connectivity but it's flaky and Apple hasn't updated it in years. CoreBluetooth works but discovery is slow and you're limited to advertising 28 bytes. Has anyone found a reliable cross-platform approach to BLE device discovery that doesn't require a central server or pre-shared identifiers?

New ask Hacker News story: SparkVSR: Video Super-Resolution You Can Control with Keyframes

SparkVSR: Video Super-Resolution You Can Control with Keyframes 2 by steveharing1 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Found this on GitHub and couldn't stop reading. It's from a Texas A&M and YouTube/Google team and what got me is it's not your typical blind upscaler where you just cross your fingers and hope. You actually pick a few keyframes, upscale those yourself however you want, and it propagates your choices across the whole video. That level of control is something I haven't really seen before in VSR. Clever idea honestly. Apache 2 licensed too so worth a look. Has anyone tried it yet? https://ift.tt/sg84zkm

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: MS365 upgrade silently to 25 licenses, tried to charge me $1,035

Tell HN: MS365 upgrade silently to 25 licenses, tried to charge me $1,035 7 by davidstarkjava | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hey guys, quick warning about a crazy MS 365 dark pattern I ran into last night. I was testing the business basic plan for a side project. Decided to upgrade to the annual tier to get the discount ($3.45/mo). Clicked convert to paid, put my burner card in, and got a $0.00 confirmation email. Thought we were good. Woke up today to my bank blocking a charge for exactly $1,035.00. Turns out when you hit the annual upgrade, Microsoft silently defaults the quantity dropdown to 25 licenses. No warning prompt at all. (25 seats x 12 months x $3.45 = $1,035). They send the zero-dollar invoice to make you think it's an auth hold, then try to drain your card while you sleep. The best part? When I went to their support chat to ask why my billing was so high, the system conveniently gave me a "System error, try again later" message. You can't even get help....

New ask Hacker News story: If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or build better products?

If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or build better products? 3 by Bleiglanz | 2 comments on Hacker News. i was rolling my eyes at the hype, but reading about this is totally different from experiencing it. if you have any old repos out there - try it, you might actually be amazed. i'm not sure i buy the long-term "*90% productivity*" claims for complex, legacy enterprise systems, but for the boilerplate, libraries, build-tools, and refactoring? the gain is gigantic. all the time-consuming, nerve-wrecking stuff is mostly taken care of. you start off checking every diff like a hawk, expecting it to break things, but honestly, soon you see it's not necessary most of the time. you just keep your IDE open and feed the "analyze code" output back into it. in java, telling it to " add checkstyle, run mvn verify and repair " works well enough that you can actually go grab a coffee instead of fighting linter warnings. the theory is that...

New ask Hacker News story: Anyone know how long it will take to re-start Qatar's helium plants?

Anyone know how long it will take to re-start Qatar's helium plants? 2 by megamike | 0 comments on Hacker News. The helium shortage for the world outside the US is going to be debilitating for technology oriented production. Since the US produces most of the worlds helium, it actually acts as a counter measure to our reliance on rare earths. Globally, helium has been in short supply for over a decade. Taking out the supply from Qatar is going to disrupt production of chipsets quickly. Anyone know how long it will take to re-start Qatar's helium plants?

New ask Hacker News story: How are you so sure this is not just another winter

How are you so sure this is not just another winter 3 by shoman3003 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Because recently I am able to finish an entire episode on netflix without having to check on the agents, sometime that episode is 40 min long! I literally watch more TV than I do actual work, and I am still 3 times more productive than last year! I am not even up to date; some people wake up & tell the agents what to do & then go back to sleep