news.ycombinator.com
New DeepSeek Pricing Published (Peak and Off-Peak)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296388See here: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/Peak pricing is twice the price, or, off-peak is half the price.Peak hours are 01:00 - 04:00 and 06:00 - 10:00 UTC (all other hours are off-peak)-- V4 FLASH NOW -----------------Off-peak: $0.007 (cache hit), $0.22 (miss), $0.66 (out)Peak: $0.014 (cache hit), $0.44 (miss), $1.32 (out)-- V4 FLASH OLD vs NEW (OFF-PEAK) -----------------Cache hit: $0.0028 vs $0.007 (+250%)Cache miss: $0.14 vs $0.22 (+157%)Output: $0.28 vs $0.66 (+235%)-- V4 PRO -----------------Off-peak: $0.022 (cache hit), $0.66 (miss), $1.98 (out)Peak: $0.044 (cache hit), $1.32 (miss), $3.96 (out)-----------------Once the page gets updated and lost in time, to compare, the same page from August 1, 2026: https://web.archive.org/web/20260801170952/https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/Aug 14, 2026 9:21 AM
bing.com
She’s the Newest Queen of Chess—and She’s Only 11 Years Oldhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8980456ca94040824c0b0d115ad4d6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Fshe-s-the-newest-queen-of-chess-and-she-s-only-11-years-old%2Far-AA2a5U8F&c=73594723586978157&mkt=en-usThough Bodhana Sivanandan picked up the game just six years ago, she is now a British champion. And she routinely beats men and women many times her age.Aug 14, 2026 6:09 AM
news.google.com
Dell Rapids PBR edges Parkston Mudcats in State Baseball Class B quarterfinalshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiuAFBVV95cUxQZUhzYUp3OVh5VzVvbFBNZVpoUmhBT2d0cUtPSnNqYmE3V1BlV1ppQUZXQTBmSG5Cc0hfMHh2b3BwelJ4RTY1ZnNNZHZld1RDUGNGUzFTSGVkWFVna0pYMFNJMUxYc2IyUUcyY3FTRE92VkFsY2R1V2pDc3lUVE8xaS1LbFVHNHgycFpZR24tOVJiNmdDWEtnVWNfUzIxbDA4OHpEdVdtcDlTWE8xX1BPOThmYnFjR1hU0gHMAUFVX3lxTFBHb2E2QWNwcUx4emhtSHpqTHB0MTFkc3FxQURJamhUX29MZUZvNXZWQ3VIZjBqQnJKaXp2SExqWmlSMVRrcmxzU08tMEthbTJJWTJXSnlwbm9FZC1pbnR4VFdBb3VGSzhJdjV5dEkxWUpLWWUySEtQWXdzbnQ1UHBZUEs4TFpsOS1WLXZ4TTZUTnYxMW9ORDg2SnpKVm51M0RrQ2R5Zjc4U0NMczFiRmdhUGJMeTBJdm53NHhfbEJXRHk0dTU1QVdYSnVYQQ?oc=5Dell Rapids PBR edges Parkston Mudcats in State Baseball Class B quarterfinals Dakota News NowAug 14, 2026 4:43 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: What tasks cost money through a UI but are free in code?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294288As someone who only recently started getting their feet wet thanks to vibe coding, I am kind of amazed at all the free tools out there.An example: ffmpeg (which I've used for a long time) is a classic case of "if you can figure it out, it's free; if you can't, I can sell you a shovel" with virtually every video downloader tool out there using it. Users who don't know about it must either rely on the shady tier of online video downloaders or pay for some of the better ones. I used to think there was a hard-coded limit to downloading files in 4K until I realised yt-dlp and ffmpeg existed.Another example: TIL the Bluesky Jetstream protocol is completely free, which is amazing to me because of all the data and inference you can get from it (similar APIs, albeit from much larger social datasets like Google Maps and X, are not free.It seems that the entry barrier to a lot of useful tools over the last two decades has been a minimal ability to code. Since that barrier has now dropped, would yAug 14, 2026 2:55 AM
github.com
Show HN: Inplan – Before Start Codinghttps://github.com/melly-lgtm/inplanHi HN!I'm one of the makers of inplan, which is a tool to anchor comments to design docs to allow deep/focused design specification.We've improved the product - now it supports more features like linking images and constructing multiple documents for complex projects.Please give it a try and share feedback!Aug 14, 2026 12:29 AM
news.google.com
State Department launches task force to end ‘birth tourism’https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMic0FVX3lxTE53VTZoS25TVmYwUVBNSElXcWVJT1ZCUnRsWTZSc2tLeHNPdlRndzN0RG1vTmJaLU1EMFdhWEdHVW54ZG5aMXRnVzFPZ3kwOGV3Y2k4Q3k0Z2hPY1JxSmNBdElLZFdxQ2hxRFNlQkFPb1YxU0k?oc=5State Department launches task force to end ‘birth tourism’ MS NOWAug 13, 2026 11:35 PM
techcrunch.com
If Apple sends you a push notification alerting you to a spyware attack, take it seriouslyhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/if-apple-sends-you-a-push-notification-alerting-you-to-a-spyware-attack-take-it-seriously/Apple now sends out push notifications to iPhone lock screens when the company identifies government spyware targeting someone's devices.Aug 13, 2026 9:50 PM
news.google.com
2026 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships Results: Team scores, all-around leaders, and event medalistshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMizwFBVV95cUxOSDRNc2J6eTcxLU9hdjAzMmkwQWEwckpoWG1Fd1RiMEZUX19XVVBlM0U4UGI4SGRRUGlhQ3VDY3ptLWs4ak9VanZUNzAtUHFQYXpZVzF2ZmozOVl1ZFdqUnh6MkplTG1ZaHFSVXRUR2ZkOExrSEhsNDgwT1BiS3E2ZW80LTQwb0NWOGR1YmNWUDByVlYyUlV0MGVRbDB6WmNvU0s0Q0FrWGJhYkkxcnJQa3NxR2xHS1c3cjN1c3p2endrSjNxeGV6Ni14MHMyaVE?oc=52026 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships Results: Team scores, all-around leaders, and event medalists Gymnastics NowAug 13, 2026 8:44 PM
transcribe.lymestack.com
Show HN: LymeScribe – one computer on your network transcribes for the resthttps://transcribe.lymestack.com/Transcribed with LymeScribe just before posting this: "I realize it's a little bit late in the day to be posting on Hacker News. However, I've been looking at this frog for a good two weeks now, and F it, I'm just going to ship it. I've posted on Hacker News now like three or four times with little to no results. So if a tree falls in the woods..." (I censored the F word, but it transcribed just fine.)TL;DR: LymeScribe is local speech to text for Mac and Windows: dictate into any app, or drop in a recording and get a transcript with speaker labels, and nothing goes to a server you don't own. On a machine that can handle it, it all runs right there. On anything that can't, or anywhere you'd rather keep transcription in one place, one computer does the work for the rest of the network. Offices care about the second one, because the audio and the transcripts never leave hardware they control.This whole thing started as a command line program I built to transcribe and label speakers in audAug 13, 2026 6:18 PM
taurusagents.com
Show HN: Taurus Agents, my take on multi-agent hierarchieshttps://taurusagents.com/Hi HN! Serge here, solo founder. I built my own multi-agent orchestrator and it became so useful that for several months I've never had to touch codex or claude code anymore, just using Taurus now. The website explains what it is, but here I wanted to share how and why. If you think multi-agent orchestration is stupid, I'll try to convince you otherwise.(And if you'd rather watch a video than read the text, here's the walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa5CIxf5Rhk)Persistent identity: All my agents have names (Tessera = personal strategist, Alcyone = in charge of engineering at Taurus, and so on), roles, their own separate prompts, their own MEMORY.md, their own episodic memory (continuity logs they write for future selves) and so on. A lot of people still think it's silly vs talking to Claude or ChatGPT, but you'd be surprised how much everything changes once you seed a persona that cares about one specific mini-project or an aspect of it and takes care of it on every awakenAug 13, 2026 5:45 PM
remarc.app
Show HN: Remarc – comment on anything on your screen and send it to your agenthttps://remarc.app/Like any side project, Remarc had its innocent beginnings in my own problem — there was no good way to provide contextual feedback to AI agents on their own output.Social media may make building with AI seem like this: ask for the thing, blindly approve the plan, get the thing. Post “omg claude just one-shotted blah”. Profit.But if you’ve ever worked on a real product, you know nothing good is ever one-shotted. Every PRD, design, and build goes through dozens of feedback loops and iterations. That’s how you get from something that works to something actually good.There are a plethora of tools for collaborating with humans, but surprisingly little for collaborating with AI. Chat just wasn’t cutting it for the kind of contextual feedback I wanted to give my agents.This thing in the implementation plan? Change it to that. What did you mean here? See this button? Here’s a screenshot, I circled it — it’s missing a hover state. This sentence in the 3rd paragraph? Rephrase it.If you’re an opiAug 13, 2026 3:39 PM

wired.com
Why This Prediction Market Banned Teenshttps://www.wired.com/story/novig-says-its-not-like-those-other-prediction-markets/Jacob Fortinsky, the CEO and cofounder of the new prediction market Novig, says his outfit isn’t like those other markets. You know the ones.Aug 13, 2026 1:30 PM
readiteasy.app
Show HN: Read it easy – Read-only code editor with an improved Go to Definitionhttps://www.readiteasy.app/I built a desktop app that improves the UI/UX for reading source code . Code editors/IDEs have many features, but I didn't make the best use of them when reading the source code. So, I designed the app by picking up some features for source code reading. It is read-only because it is intended to focus users on reading. Switching from your favorite code editor or IDE to the app can help with context switching from coding to code reading. I wonder if this context switch can help people focus on reading.One of the features I designed specifically for this app is "Animated Go to Definition," which works by double-clicking a function name in the code and is designed around some principles I use when reading code. This feature exactly embodies the ideas and concepts of this app. Now, Animated Go to Definition supports JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, and C#.AI empowers documentation in software development, but it does not always eliminate the need to read source code. To truly understaAug 13, 2026 12:30 PM
bing.com
Popcorn, Peanuts And … Pinot? Mark West Brings Wine To The Ballparkhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1f95e0d74979b5e77b5a26c0b49e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fca.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fpopcorn-peanuts-pinot-mark-west-173342088.html&c=16849772432755150565&mkt=en-usPinot Noir has long been known as one of the best wines to pair with a plethora of foods and cuisines, but one iconic California winery is taking a swing at something new: bringing its Pinot Noir to ...Aug 13, 2026 10:33 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Gemini API removes postpay billinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283011Mail received:We are writing to inform you of an upcoming billing change to Google AI Studio and the Gemini API.We require developers to switch your Gemini API billing from Postpay to Prepay by September 14, 2026. This is part of our ongoing effort to improve our platform to give developers more control over API consumption and costs.This change applies exclusively to your Gemini API usage in AI Studio. All other GCP services on your account will remain on Postpay. What you need to knowKey changes: Starting September 14, 2026, to use paid features in the Gemini API you will be required to change the billing plan associated with your Google AI Studio projects to Prepay. Learn more about the Prepay billing plan here.Potential impact: If you do not transition to Prepay and purchase credits before September 14, 2026, your service will be interrupted. What you need to doAction required: If you use, or plan to use, paid features in the Gemini API: Switch to Prepay: Transition to Prepay on thAug 13, 2026 8:05 AM
news.google.com
2026 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships: Every competitor announced so farhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMilAFBVV95cUxNWTNScVM1dktlMDFISTJyLXMycWh2cTF5XzFwUmJjU1JBS3FSMjFxWGppamdNWlpxMU9QaDZ3STc3Z2hoTVljSWZRWHZQX1BFOUFGRmVWSmhTS0tTa3JkTEotRllnN2RLWC1XeFNKZ2dEcHFweERIU0lRVGZpR3ZxcjQ1eU9XdTQ5US1SNUxIR3ppYUtt?oc=52026 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships: Every competitor announced so far Gymnastics NowAug 13, 2026 7:00 AM
bing.com
Hello Kitty and Godzilla come together for adorable Happy Meal collabhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a83beca1cbc4671927861b47862bb79&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.polygon.com%2fhello-kitty-godzilla-mcdonalds-happy-meals-release-date-images%2f&c=15396597164298139179&mkt=en-usEight Sanrio characters will be cosplaying as creatures from the Monsterverse, which includes Godzilla and several of his foes and frenemies. As the two most well-known characters, the Hello Kitty toy ...Aug 13, 2026 6:23 AM
bing.com
Hello Kitty and Godzilla come together for adorable Happy Meal collabhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a83c6bfa04249c2b88f23324e604a43&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.polygon.com%2fhello-kitty-godzilla-mcdonalds-happy-meals-release-date-images%2f&c=15396597164298139179&mkt=en-usEight Sanrio characters will be cosplaying as creatures from the Monsterverse, which includes Godzilla and several of his foes and frenemies. As the two most well-known characters, the Hello Kitty toy ...Aug 13, 2026 6:23 AM
bing.com
Hello Kitty and Godzilla come together for adorable Happy Meal collabhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a83cdbbfdf641d7bab29641f68d34bb&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.polygon.com%2fhello-kitty-godzilla-mcdonalds-happy-meals-release-date-images%2f&c=15396597164298139179&mkt=en-usEight Sanrio characters will be cosplaying as creatures from the Monsterverse, which includes Godzilla and several of his foes and frenemies. As the two most well-known characters, the Hello Kitty toy ...Aug 13, 2026 6:23 AM
bing.com
Hello Kitty and Godzilla come together for adorable Happy Meal collabhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a83c82d41ea4da3a301479a6aa66393&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.polygon.com%2fhello-kitty-godzilla-mcdonalds-happy-meals-release-date-images%2f&c=15396597164298139179&mkt=en-usEight Sanrio characters will be cosplaying as creatures from the Monsterverse, which includes Godzilla and several of his foes and frenemies. As the two most well-known characters, the Hello Kitty toy ...Aug 13, 2026 6:23 AM