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Marketing with ChatGPT? Don’t Forget the Cloud Costs — Here’s How FinOps Keeps Budgets in Check

Marketers love tools that promise limitless creativity — and in 2025, that tool is artificial intelligence. From automated content generation to conversational assistants, AI has become the backbone of modern digital strategy. The problem? All that creativity runs on compute — and compute runs on the cloud.Behind every clever chatbot and personalized campaign is a stack of infrastructure quietly accumulating costs across AWS, Azure, and other cloud providers. For teams focused on engagement metr

YouTube Rolls Out UI Updates, Threaded Comments, Audio Replies and More

YouTube's also expanding access to courses and appeals for content violations.

Ask HN: Most effective way to reduce excessive digital media consumption?

I've been working on improving aspects of my life that I don't feel serve me super well. I've made really strong progress in physical areas, but digital has been much more challenging.I spend way too much time browsing Reddit, YouTube/Twitch, and Facebook. Thankfully, I never got into Insta or TikTok. I want to drastically reduce the amount of time I spend interacting with these sites, but they feel so deeply engrained into my psyche that it feels nearly impossible.I've

Ask HN: How can I delete my Instagram?

When I was in graduate school, I ran a closed instagram where I posted artful photos of landscape and architecture. (This was back when HDR was coming into vogue, and achieving a similar "look" with a simple iPhone and zero editing was no small feat)When Trump took office, since my focus had been on censorship circumvention and I had promised my research participants, some of whom had connected with me on the site, that I would delete any data in the event of a hostile government event

Show HN: Tonkotsu – a developer app for managing a team of AI coding agents

Hey HN, I’m Derek, part of a small team of ex-Facebook engineers and designer building Tonkotsu.We strongly believe that the future of software development requires every developer to become the tech lead of a team of agents. That shift requires new tools and workflows that go beyond existing IDEs or terminal agents.Tonkotsu is our take on that next-gen tool. It’s a desktop app that lets developers plan technical work, delegate many coding tasks in parallel, and then review the diffs — all in on

Show HN: CrossPromote – Your own ad network

Hi HN! While working on my side projects, I realized something - I have all these apps, but there is no easy way to cross-advertise them. Putting my own ads in my own apps is way easier and cheaper than paying Google or Facebook to do that. Moreover, there is a chance for higher returns if my ads are in the same niche as the app.At first, I made a basic implementation for myself, but I wanted something more - the number of views, clicks, platform-specific redirects (e.g. Google Play for Android

Show HN: Munshig – catches the API bug that cost Facebook 50M accounts

Hey HNI built munshig, a zero-config runtime API security proxy that monitors your API during development and automatically detects vulnerabilities like Broken Access Control (BOLA), missing authentication, SQL injection, and PII leaks — before they reach production.It’s inspired by tools like Salt Security ($500k/year enterprise products), but designed to run in 30 seconds with a single command:npx munshigIt sits in front of your dev API (e.g. :3001 → :3000), analyzes real requests/re

Show HN: Why'd I pick 48 hours? A genuine approach to global connection

Hi there, I'm Frederick. Today I set out to achieve a goal, and this would be one of the most authentic HN posts I've ever written (without the help of AI).I've lived off the internet my entire life. I created my first Facebook account when i was 8 years because I had a Samsung Keypad phone (similar to blackberry) which allowed me to access it. Home was boring and I was an only child then (well my younger brother had just been born so I just didn't count). Facebook was so f

X Rolls Out Updates to Address Key Drivers of Growth

X is rolling out a range of updates and tweaks to address lingering user concerns.

LinkedIn’s Gaming Leaderboards for Connections Are Now Live

The leaderboard will show you how your game scores compare to your connections.

RPA CEO Pete Imwalle Steps Down After 32 Years; Jim Helberg Named Successor

RPA CEO Pete Imwalle is stepping down after 32 years, with chief media officer Jim Helberg stepping into the top role.

News Networks Issue Joint Statement Against Pentagon’s New Press Access Requirements

ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News Media, and NBC News are among the companies taking a stand.

TikTok Shares Pointers on Successful AI Adoption for Marketers

Some pointers on how to make best use of TikTok's evolving AI ad tools.

YouTube Launches Mental Health Assistance Content for Teens

More assistance for teens dealing with mental health concerns.

Instagram Implements Tougher Content Restrictions or Teen Accounts

Instagram says the new rules will align with PG-13 restrictions for movies.

Shoppers Will Soon Be Able to Buy Walmart Products on ChatGPT

The retailer is the latest ecommerce player to announce a deal with OpenAI.

Spotify Podcasts Are Officially Coming to Netflix

After rumors circulated earlier this year, Spotify podcasts arrive on Netflix in 2026.

We’re Nonplussed: The Punctuation Marks That Could Actually Give Apple TV a ‘Vibrant New Identity’

Apple TV ditched the plus. Here's how it can avoid that becoming a minus.

5 Types of Pictures to Take for Your Fishing Charter’s Social Media

As a fishing charter owner, you’re in the business of selling an unforgettable experience. Your potential customers, often planning a trip from hundreds of miles away, are scrolling through their phones, dreaming of an adventure on the water. How do you capture their imagination and convince them that a day on your boat is the experience they are looking for? In the modern tourism industry, the answer is a stunning and strategic social media feed.Your social media is your digital storefront, the

Best practices for answer engine optimization (AEO) marketing teams can't ignore

A few months back, I was having a bit of a professional identity crisis. And it’s all thanks to answer engine optimization (AEO) and AEO best practices. Before 2024, I spent the better part of a decade focused on topping search engine result pages — and, frankly, I was great at it. I knew the ins and outs of keywords, schema, and even technical SEO aspects like site speed. But with the rise of AI, those skills were slowly becoming less urgent, for lack of a better word. (Cue marketer existenti