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Reports on X say Polar has stopped taking AI image and video apps. We read six payment providers' policies to see who takes one, and on what terms.

One bug fix, run again and again with one setting changed each time. Subagents more than doubled the...

Five hosting status pages, the same 12 weeks, every incident counted and timed where the data allows...

Same model, same bug, nearly the same code. The bill differed by a third, and most of the gap is Cla...

Same price per token as Claude Sonnet 5.5. Very different bills once you count tokens, thinking, cac...

BuildJet and Cirrus CI are gone and GitHub cut its runner prices. Here is where an indie hacker shou...

Fly.io raised memory prices 20% on October 1. Here is when moving actually saves money, and where to...

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