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The age of token efficiency, the age of libraries
Six months ago I still hand-crafted nearly all of my code; today I'm not sure I can do my job without Claude. Sooner or later someone is going to ask if we're spending our tokens e…
Show HN: The AI cycle and it's token usage market
The way generative AI is totally different than how it should be.…
TokenTown –> Learn how LLM's work in a SimCity-like world
An isometric city that runs a miniature transformer in real time: tokenizer docks, attention plaza, KV-cache warehouse, feed-forward mill and the sampler.…
Ask HN: Anyone else experiencing extreme Codex limits token burn rate?
Best OpenAI-compatible inference APIs: drop-in alternatives for 2026
Which inference APIs are truly drop-in OpenAI replacements in 2026? Verified pricing, real benchmarks, and what breaks when you switch providers.…
How US companies flipped from "tokenmaxxing" to "thrift-maxxing", mixing cheaper Chinese models with OpenAI and Anthropic, threatening the labs' IPO valuations (Wall Street Journal)
Wattage: A token-spend profiler and cost-regression gate for AI agents
Storj Chapter 11 Raises the Biggest Question for STORJ Token Holders
An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud
An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud Fascinating investigation by Matt Lenhard into the market that has grown up around reselling LLM tokens at a d…
Piper Sandler names 5 software stocks cutting AI token costs
Crypto exchange BitMart to shut down after nine years, BMX token crashes 58%
Users have a month to close trades and six months to withdraw funds, and the exchange gave no specific reason for the closure.…
Republic launches Mirror Tokens letting retail investors bet on SpaceX and other private giants for as little as $50
Mirror Tokens democratize access to private market gains, but investors face risks like counterparty exposure and reliance on liquidity events. The post Republic launches Mirror To…
An Inside Look at the Token Reseller Market
A look inside the gray-market reseller economy that gives mainland China cheap, structured, B2B-grade access to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and beyond…
AI Tokenomics: What AI tokens cost and where they're wasted
A map of what AI tokens actually cost, and where they're wasted vs. well spent. Tools, research, practices, and copy-paste setups for token-efficient agentic coding. - QuesmaOr…
AI enthusiast adds Nvidia Tesla V100 as loud as a lawnmower to gaming PC for $266 — 32GB of VRAM rig can run 27 billion parameter model at 32 tokens per second
Now they have a total 32GB VRAM system on a budget, for local LLM inference.…
The Hidden Cost of Output Token Pricing for Llama 3.3 70B
Llama 3.3 70B pricing splits sharply by input vs output tokens. Compare provider rates, see the crossover math, and learn which costs you cannot cache away.…
Dwarven Ancient Steel Pottery Tokens: A Treasure for Your Table
Dwarven Ancient Steel Pottery Tokens: A Treasure for Your Table…
Toolgz – cut LLM tool-definition tokens ~80% without hurting accuracy
Compress your tool calls and save tokens over time. - dperussina/toolgz…
AI pricing is understood now but the token is still just a cost
Get ahead and start pricing value. Effective AI monetization uses bundling, outcome-based pricing, and usage gating backed by real-time metering.…
Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits
AI-powered collars continuously track the health and location of the herd to guarantee loans and stop producers from double-pledging the same cattle.…
What AI? Chili's spends big on WiFi and tablets instead of tokens
Chris Caldwell, CIO of Brinker, focuses on upgrading Chili's tech infrastructure instead of AI, enhancing service and financial performance.…
Show HN: TS Compiler Knowledge Graph reducing AI tokens about 90%
A `typescript-go` toolchain for compiler-powered plugins + type-safe execution + 800x faster linter + codegraph reducing 90% AI tokens - samchon/ttsc…
Show HN: AI Meter – Local token usage with energy and water estimates
[Problem] I wanted to track how many tokens I am burning and it's estimated energy and water impact. [WHAT THIS IS] A local token usage tracker that works across different coding h…
Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap
Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.…
Elders call for overhaul of 'tokenistic' governance on APY Lands
A group of elders on South Australia's remote Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands say the region's current model of governance is failing — and have put forward plans…
Opus 5 improves coding, reasoning efficiency, and prompt-cache-friendly tool use, and is priced at $5/1M input tokens and $25/1M output, same as Opus 4.8 (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
World Foundation, the nonprofit behind the World protocol, raised $52.5M led by Pantera through a strategic sale of its WLD token with a one-year lockup (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
‘You just hired a million bad employees’: How the brief tokenmaxxing era delivered the opposite of what it promised
One exec privately estimated that token spend went from $20k in December to $1 million in July. "We're not throttling back, we don't want people to stop using it."…
Show HN: Turo – An Aggressive Token-Saving Proxy for CLI AI Agents
Point more. Token less. Reduce prose to its content words to cut LLM input tokens — across 20+ coding agents. - kdeps/turo…
Open Source AI Harness Profiler – discover where tf your tokens are going
Contribute to TryRekon/Rekon development by creating an account on GitHub.…
I benchmarked AI cost-saving claims instead of trusting token percentages
Faster runtime for coding agents. Make coding agents 25% faster and 30% cheaper on average while keeping the quality same or more.. - lemoncrow-lab/lemoncrow…
Gumroad Says That It's Now Spending as Much on Human Employees as AI Tokens
Some comapnies are now spending as much on AI as human employees. Gumroad is the latest to put a number on it, and...…
The newest AI security threat: token torching
This ain't your grandma's cyberattack...Risk management provider Bitsight is giving warning of a new type of cyberattack that may be heading toward AI-enabled companies.…
OpenAI chairman Brett Taylor on AI tokenomics, token efficiency - CNBC
OpenAI chairman Brett Taylor on AI tokenomics, token efficiency CNBC…
An LLM API gateway with budget-limited tokens for your LLM API keys
Budget aware LLM API gateway. Contribute to er91/budget_aware_llm_api_gateway development by creating an account on GitHub.…
The same LLM is 8x slower to first token depending on who serves it
Two backends, the same open-weight model, the same OpenAI-compatible API — and an 8× gap in time-to-first-token, with one of them faking streaming. What we learned benchmarking LLM…
OriginBlame: Record- and Token-Level Data Provenance for AI Training Datasets
arXiv:2607.13037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a data contributor requests removal, model trainers face a practical gap: unlearning algorithms require a forget set, yet no to…
Looking for developers with high-token AI workflows
We're selecting users to join the testing program for our Unlimited Token Plan 200M. Apply by July 20, 2026 PDT.…
At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills
Gartner thinks we’re headed to a hybrid AI model where you offload stuff to the desktop whenever possible…
Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing
Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored…
Trader loses $1M after signing phishing token approval
Onchain scammers netted more than $14 billion last year, and approval phishing remains a primary attack vector.…
Trader loses $1M to onchain scammers via phishing token approval
The rise in onchain phishing scams highlights the urgent need for enhanced security measures and user education in decentralized finance. The post Trader loses $1M to onchain scamm…
Arbitrum token rises 8% as Robinhood Chain integrates with ecosystem
The integration of Robinhood Chain with Arbitrum could enhance ARB's value proposition, potentially attracting more investors and developers. The post Arbitrum token rises 8% as Ro…
World Cup quarter-final between Spain and Belgium sends fan tokens on a wild ride
The volatility of fan tokens highlights the growing intersection of sports and crypto, with significant implications for market dynamics and adoption. The post World Cup quarter-fi…
Palantir CEO Slams OpenAI, Anthropic Over AI Token Economy - MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East
Palantir CEO Slams OpenAI, Anthropic Over AI Token Economy MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East…
Alex Karp Bashes OpenAI, Anthropic Token Model — 'Something Has Gone Completely Wrong' - Yahoo Finance
Alex Karp Bashes OpenAI, Anthropic Token Model — 'Something Has Gone Completely Wrong' Yahoo Finance…
Bitmask-Based LLM Security Firewall with reskSecure — Block Jailbreaks at Token Level
Block LLM jailbreaks and prompt injections at the token level with reskSecure — a bitmask-based security firewall for AI applications. Includes code example and architecture insigh…
Paris Saint-Germain declares Bradley Barcola untouchable as $PSG token trading surges
PSG declares Bradley Barcola untouchable amid Arsenal and Liverpool interest. Here's how the transfer stance is impacting $PSG fan token trading on Chiliz.…
Cristiano Ronaldo matches Cubillas’ World Cup record as CR7 meme tokens surge on Solana
The surge in unofficial CR7 meme tokens highlights the speculative nature of crypto markets, underscoring the risks of hype-driven investments. The post Cristiano Ronaldo matches C…
BetMGM bonus code NYPNEWSGET: Get up to $1K in no-sweat tokens for Yankees vs. Red Sox
New users can sign up on BetMGM Sportsbook with the BetMGM bonus code NYPNEWSGET to retrieve $1,000 in no-sweat tokens over 10 days.…
A look at a thriving underground economy for Claude access in China, including "transfer station" sites that buy API tokens abroad and distribute them to users (Wired)
Wired : A look at a thriving underground economy for Claude access in China, including “transfer station” sites that buy API tokens abroad and distribute them to users — As Anthrop…
ZTE Showcases Full-Stack AI Capabilities at MWC Shanghai 2026, Empowering New Era of Token Operations
ZTE Showcases Full-Stack AI Capabilities at MWC Shanghai 2026, Empowering New Era of Token Operations…
What Token Extensions Are and Why a Web2 Developer Should Care
You already understand tokens. Extensions are just middleware for your money. If you have ever...…
Position: Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Trac
Intermediate token generation (ITG), where a model produces output before the solution, has become a standard method to improve the performance of language models on reasoning task…
Creating a Small Helper Class to Safely Handle CancellationTokenSource Cancel and Dispose
Introduction When writing async code in Unity, you often end up working with...…
Japan and Sweden’s World Cup draw sends Chiliz surging as fan token mania grips crypto markets
Japan and Sweden's 1-1 World Cup draw advances both teams while Chiliz (CHZ) surges 28% on fan token trading activity during the 2026 tournament.…
Netherlands beats Tunisia 3-1 as crypto prediction markets and fan tokens ride World Cup wave
Netherlands topped World Cup Group F with a 3-1 win over Tunisia as Polymarket saw $93.6K in volume and Chiliz rallied 28% on tournament hype.…
Only 5% of Pump.fun tokens survive past 90 days, CoinGecko study finds
The rapid turnover of Pump.fun tokens highlights the volatility and risk in meme token markets, emphasizing the need for cautious investment strategies. The post Only 5% of Pump.fu…
Virtuals Protocol enables AI trading of tokenized stocks like Apple and Tesla
AI-driven tokenized stock trading could revolutionize financial markets, but regulatory uncertainties and security risks pose significant challenges. The post Virtuals Protocol ena…
Croatia vs Ghana World Cup matchup drives crypto prediction market activity and fan token speculation
The surge in crypto prediction market activity highlights growing investor interest and potential for innovation in sports-related digital assets. The post Croatia vs Ghana World C…