Show HN: AI Meter – Local token usage with energy and water estimates
AI METERDirect download ↓Private by defaultMeasure your AI usage. Locally.AI Meter measures token usage across your local coding agents and estimates the associated electricity and direct cooling-water use. No usage data leaves your Mac.Download for macOS ↓View on GitHub ↗INSTALL FROM TERMINAL$ curl -fsSL https://ai-meter.app/install.sh | shCOPY●Reads local provider files.
- ▪AI METERDirect download ↓Private by defaultMeasure your AI usage.
- ▪Locally.AI Meter measures token usage across your local coding agents and estimates the associated electricity and direct cooling-water use.
- ▪No usage data leaves your Mac.Download for macOS ↓View on GitHub ↗INSTALL FROM TERMINAL$ curl -fsSL https://ai-meter.app/install.sh | shCOPY●Reads local provider files.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 3,344 of its stories.
Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | AI Meter |
| Canonical URL | https://ai-meter.app |
| Publication time | Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:11:52 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-25T02:20:11.871Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-25T02:20:11.871Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | pHWbh94QWClx |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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AI METERDirect download ↓Private by defaultMeasure your AI usage. Locally.AI Meter measures token usage across your local coding agents and estimates the associated electricity and direct cooling-water use. No accounts. No usage data leaves your Mac.Download for macOS ↓View on GitHub ↗INSTALL FROM TERMINAL$ curl -fsSL https://ai-meter.app/install.sh | shCOPY●Reads local provider files. The only network request is a public update check.THE ACTUAL APPMACOS · LOCAL ONLYTRANSPARENT ESTIMATIONFrom measured tokens to estimated impact.AI Meter follows a SCI for AI-aligned consumer boundary.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at AI Meter.
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