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Ask HN: How are AI budgets changing in your company?

Are you tokenmaxxing, or have the bean counters started setting spend targets (or limits)? What is your current user spend and will it be higher or lower in 2 months? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972842 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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Ask HN: What do you think about AI generated slides for conferences?

As in many other areas (e.g. code, emails, PRs, blog posts), people have started using LLMs to generate slides for their conference talks (e.g., set of HTML pages as a talk). On the one hand, the slides look tidy, neat, and precise, with infographics, plots, dashboards, and so on. Nothing to complain about. On the other hand, they look, hm, like LLM generated web sites, like soulless, if I may say so. I don't know why, but I don't enjoy reading them, even though they probably provide more value ...
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AI Opportunity Scan

Article URL: https://msa-mail.com/ai-scan/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973555 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/texas-city-demands-2m-for-public-records-on-flock-usage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971523 Points: 131 # Comments: 20
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Worth Building

Article URL: https://armstr.ng/writing/worth-building Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971952 Points: 52 # Comments: 38
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Ephemeral Testing

Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/05/ephemeral-testing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972008 Points: 37 # Comments: 13
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Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle

Article URL: https://gwern.net/doc/design/2026-10-03-gwern-samon.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972211 Points: 26 # Comments: 7