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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

612 points · 304 comments · elffjs

theodpHN · 1791127659 · focus · HN ↗
Nice to see the tech giants finally launch hard spending caps in 2026, matching some but not all of the resource/spend limiting features ($, compute, disk, tape, print, time) that were baked into mainframes and time sharing systems in the early 1970s! Everything old is "modern" again!

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