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New ask Hacker News story: How do teams prevent duplicate LLM API calls and token waste?

How do teams prevent duplicate LLM API calls and token waste? 2 by cachelogic | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm curious how teams running LLM-heavy applications handle duplicate or redundant API calls in production. While experimenting with LLM APIs, I noticed that the same prompt can sometimes be sent repeatedly across different parts of an application, which leads to unnecessary token usage and higher API costs. For teams using OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar APIs in production: How do you currently detect or prevent duplicate prompts or redundant calls? Do you rely on logging and dashboards, caching layers, internal proxy services, or something else? Or is this generally considered a minor issue that most teams just accept as part of normal usage?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listing is verified?

Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listing is verified? 4 by BelVisgarra | 0 comments on Hacker News. Online job scams seem increasingly common. I'm curious whether people would actually use a job board where every job listing is verified before being published. Would something like this make you more likely to search for jobs there?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?

Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing? 5 by overgard | 4 comments on Hacker News. Well first, I don't mean this as a shot at the mods that do a great job. I'm noticing a lot of posts and comments around AI seem like industry plants. Look, I recognize that people are excited about AI and want to share their perspectives, and I'm not trying to accuse people that disagree with me of being industry plants, but the recent one about "I love coding at 60 now because of Claude Code!" by a new user with "cc" at the end of their name seems a LITTLE suspicious. As is the number of upvotes -- I can understand how a new model gets a lot of excitement, but a stranger on the internet enjoying the new model doesn't seem like 800 points worthy? I'm not trying to spark a controversy here, but I'm wondering if others feel the same or if I'm just overreacting.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?

Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently? 3 by kypro | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been on HN under different aliases since 2010 and over the last couple of years I feel like the quality of HN has nosed dived and so has my enjoyment. For the first time ever I questioned today whether I should continue to use HN anymore so I'm writing this partly to explore my own thoughts and to see if anyone else feels similarly. 1. AI, AI, AI. I get it. AI is the big thing right now, but I find AI posts fundamentally less interesting than the traditional tech content that used to be posted here. A post containing someone's qualitative opinion on how different AI models compare when drawing pelicans simply isn't as technically interesting as something like this, https://ift.tt/f57VlkH 2. Does any build startups here anymore? Again, I get it. I largely quit trying to bootstrap my own startup ideas in the late 2010s. The industry became too competitive for a so...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why do we still buy things by browsing catalogs?

Ask HN: Why do we still buy things by browsing catalogs? 5 by dannythecount | 4 comments on Hacker News. Every time we want to buy something online, we go through the same ritual. Open a marketplace. Search. Scroll endless catalogs. Skip ads. Ignore “recommended” products. Compare listings that look almost identical. Eventually fatigue wins and we click something — not because we’re sure it’s the best option, but because we want to stop spending time on it. It’s strange that we’ve normalized this. Buying online often means navigating noise: catalogs, ads, rankings, and persuasion systems competing for attention. What I keep wondering is this: When personal AI agents become common, what prevents them from doing exactly the same thing? If the interface to commerce remains “browse catalogs and search results,” then agents will simply automate the same inefficient process — crawling listings, parsing ads, and navigating ranking systems just to reach something the buyer already knew they...
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New ask Hacker News story: Self taught gen-xers with senior dev/pm exp. Where's my imposter syndrome team?

Self taught gen-xers with senior dev/pm exp. Where's my imposter syndrome team? 3 by _hugerobots_ | 0 comments on Hacker News. tldr: it's been a few years since I've run into anyone in the pool without a degree. quixotic history aside, how rare is it to get contract work as sendev, devops(sysop ftw) or mid-pm at some F50 houses? My offers are usually about 60% of CS holders... but I'd rather do than don't. Could just be the market in Vancouver, probably a skill issue.
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New ask Hacker News story: Amazon degraded shopping- you have to put in cart to see the price

Amazon degraded shopping- you have to put in cart to see the price 7 by talkingtab | 4 comments on Hacker News. I just went to Amazon and searched for "espresso tamper". Of the 15 top results only ONE had a price. Fourteen (14) say "See options" then "put in cart to see price" My first thought is that it was insane. My second thought was that they must be going broke to make this kind of change. Maybe there is some other reason, but I'm wondering if I need to find an alternative. Oh and in order to comment on this post you need to put it in your cart first! :-)
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