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AWS billing bug causes 1000x increase in token prices

nawitus — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:10:57 +0000

Article URL: https://repost.aws/questions/QUveO4Hv5ITKmWvfoCNizR4A/from-1k-to-400k-monthly-usage-billing-with-aws-bedrock-is-this-a-bug

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460499

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by nawitus in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

nawitus — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:43:55 +0000

Yeah. Those claims are just some random AI slop from claude..

New comment by nawitus in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

nawitus — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:53:05 +0000

That's not necessarily true, you can have multiple cache points, see e.g. https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...

Claude-code-permissions-hook – delegate permission approval to LLM

nawitus — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:55:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/panuhorsmalahti/claude-code-permissions-hook

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452894

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nawitus in "Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle"

nawitus — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:56:14 +0000

Why would a salesperson rubber stamp product decisions? Even if yes, there are other roles that approved the changes.

New comment by nawitus in "Analyzing my electricity consumption"

nawitus — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 21:14:26 +0000

This is very standard stuff in Finland for decades. And before heat pumps became popular large tanks were common and those were heated during the night.

New comment by nawitus in "Power station's last coal delivery arrives by rail"

nawitus — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:20:31 +0000

The problem still exists up north where solar produces about zero energy for months. Of course, wind power is option there.

New comment by nawitus in "Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid"

nawitus — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:58:38 +0000

That depends on the consumer (and market I guess). In many countries in Europe that is an option. (Although there should be some extra fees on top).

New comment by nawitus in "Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid"

nawitus — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:58:00 +0000

The explanation is lack of interconnect, not losses in transmission. If you have enough capacity to transfer electricity the prices will be equal in two neighboring electricity markets.

New comment by nawitus in "Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid"

nawitus — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:56:37 +0000

Empirically this doesn't seem to happen.

New comment by nawitus in "28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid"

nawitus — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:38:39 +0000

Finland is probably like 15000 kWh/year/house (for a new house more like 10000 kWh/year). All the heating of the house & water is done by electricity, though.

New comment by nawitus in "What's that touchscreen in my room?"

nawitus — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 08:28:03 +0000

Yes, 4€/kWh, which is dynamically adjusted (if that spot price is reached).

New comment by nawitus in "The fight over California community solar: ‘It’s everyone vs. utilities’"

nawitus — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 05:11:58 +0000

Europe has a max price and prices are determined on the previous day.

New comment by nawitus in "The fight over California community solar: ‘It’s everyone vs. utilities’"

nawitus — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:09:04 +0000

I'm not expert in the system in California, but usually consumers are already paying the average spot price (plus some significant margin, which takes into consideration the demand profile of the consumer). Switching to spot pricing would not raise rates, and if consumer would adapt slightly to spot prices the average rate would actually decrease.

New comment by nawitus in "The fight over California community solar: ‘It’s everyone vs. utilities’"

nawitus — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 07:39:38 +0000

In a spot price system you can use electricity when the price is higher than average.

New comment by nawitus in "The fight over California community solar: ‘It’s everyone vs. utilities’"

nawitus — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:23:30 +0000

A house will not cool down immediately. It will cool down rather slowly in most cases (or at least if it's well built). There are also various ways to store thermal energy or use alternative, non-electric heat sources.

If the price goes up 10000x there will be blackouts in any case regardless if spot pricing is used or not. Spot pricing will _reduce_ blackouts.

New comment by nawitus in "The fight over California community solar: ‘It’s everyone vs. utilities’"

nawitus — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:21:37 +0000

In Nordpool the prices are set the day behind so there's no surprise bill. If the spot price goes up one actually should pay more, which incentives reducing electricity consumption.

I think your apartment complex example is not that realistic as it won't affect the spot price. Something more like a war will..

New comment by nawitus in "The fight over California community solar: ‘It’s everyone vs. utilities’"

nawitus — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:19:11 +0000

96% of Norwegians use a spot price contract. Seems to work just fine.

New comment by nawitus in "The fight over California community solar: ‘It’s everyone vs. utilities’"

nawitus — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 19:51:46 +0000

You can set a sensible max price, like sensible spot price system do.

New comment by nawitus in "The fight over California community solar: ‘It’s everyone vs. utilities’"

nawitus — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 19:40:39 +0000

Seems like a lot of complexity that can be solved by simple spot pricing for electricity. With spot pricing you can decouple solar and battery storage, as battery owners can make a profit by storing electricity when it's cheap and selling it when it's expensive. Solar power owners can just sell to the grid at market rate.