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Claude.ai do not deliver what I payed for
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-07-30 15:32:13+00:00
Hi,

is someone else encountering difficulties in usage? I have a pro-plan - even if its not the MAX, I still pay for Opus 4 model and can't use it since hours. Its "overloaded" - without my money, it wouldn't even load - is Anthropic misunderstanding this fact???

I'll cancel my subscription. I can't use Opus 4 without paying either. That's such a bad move.

What legal options do I have to get my money back or a compensation for not being able to use what I pay for? I'm really upset on such behavior.

I don't do Claude Code or do have a large codebase, nor do I feed in image-files or do voice data - I just want it to help me code in my hobby project wit < 2000 lines of python.

I hate it!
by jfengel | 2025-07-30 15:32:23+00:00
It's not a great name. It's hard to Google, and easily confused with a lot of other things.

It's vapid, though most party names are vapid. It's presumably meant to convey some sort of centrism, but centrism turns out to be a harder sell than you'd expect. It sounds nice until you try to figure out what it actually is, and then you realize that all the "centrists" in the room have little in common.

I'd say it doesn't really matter because it sounds like a complete non-starter to me. But then, my track record of spotting political black swans has a huge blot on it, so I wouldn't take my opinions as meaning much.
by benreesman | 2025-07-30 15:32:52+00:00
Nothing about a remote gig in one job affects the imperstives I highlighted about past layoffs or future uncertainty: pricing relocation into or out of e.g. SFBA at zero is another conversational gambit popular with the out-of-touch. You don't teleport.

It's bad generally, this is a terrible time to be a working person in general. How SWEs stack up against profession X? Depends on profession X.

SWEs are in a job market where a bunch of folks who have been repeatedly prosecuted for wage fixing (most successfully/recently in 2012) are taking another swing at it in a much more lawless regime. That's as precarious as it gets when this cabal monopolizes the front row at the Inaugeration.
by falcor84 | 2025-07-30 15:33:00+00:00
> They wanted to monopolize talent, burned billions doing it, and then discarded those people like they were nothing. They caused the problem, and now we developers are paying for it.

What's the actual issue here? Is anyone really worse off by having worked at FAANG for a few years and then being given a generous severance package? The alternative explicitly presented by the article is that if they hadn't been hired by FAANG, they would have been working at a smaller company for lower pay, or worse yet, they wouldn't have been able to get a coding job at all.
by samehsbs | 2025-07-30 15:33:03+00:00
Thanks! I appreciate the suggestion. Trade shows and PR definitely seem like higher-signal channels, but they can be a big upfront investment, especially at pre-seed when we’re still trying to validate whether the problem resonates.

Have you seen early-stage teams successfully land pilots through trade shows, even before they had much built? Or is that route more effective once there’s a demo or MVP to showcase?
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-07-30 15:33:08+00:00
When you pull a large portion of people that would normally be doing the following jobs:

* maintenance on buildings * growing corn * building homes * making tacos at taco bell * roll your own guess

And make them have job titles like "Head of Equity" or "People Partner Team Member" or "roll your own here too" and give them a 100k-200k+ salary, then everyone making Corn, Tacos, Homes are going to demand more money because why work at Taco Bell if you can literally get a job in Big Tech?

It really fucked up our system, our expectations for salary, the cost of all goods really. We actually need deflation so that people can afford homes. We need to bankrupt companies that just buy up all the homes.

We also need to get our heads on straight about work. We should expect to all being doing hard fucking work. There shouldn't be a lot of meetings. That's something that really surprised me about 2020-2024 - the meetings were out of fucking control.

Done. Now get off HN and get to work.
by fredophile | 2025-07-30 15:33:27+00:00
A couple years ago I got a puppy. At the time I worked from home. A few months ago I got a new job and now I have to go into the office. She spent the first two years of her life with me being used to me almost always being around. It would be cruel to suddenly leave her alone all day five days a week. What are you suggesting people should do in similar situations? Should I only work remote for the rest of her life? Should I have taken her from the only home she knows and given her to someone else who works from home?
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-07-30 15:34:18+00:00
> On the downside, both their JIT and their GC seem to be far less sophisticated than the JVM

I've always heard this, but does it actually manifest in noticeably worse performance than the JVM? Go has a much simpler GC, but it's not terribly slower than Java (I do know they are optimized for different things).

It seems like C# is within bounds of Java while also having great performance escape hatches.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-30 15:34:45+00:00
> (that asking about salary is a 'red flag' in our process)

> To be clear, I still think calling it "a red flag" is a stretch.

In my comment above I did not call it a "red flag". My specific wording was "somewhat of a negative signal". That seems consistent with what you said about judging someone for asking about a well-known aspect of the company because it signals they haven't done enough research.

It also dodges the question that keeps getting asked: Does everyone receive the same equity compensation as well? As far as I can tell, that question is not answered on your website. Asking it seems like fair game.
by parpfish | 2025-07-30 15:34:47+00:00
bigtech salaries are weird because all sides feel like they're getting away with something.

bigtech looks at the marginal cost of an employee compared to marginal revenue gains they'll drive and sees a clear win. from their perspective, employees are underpaid relative to the money they bring in.

employees look at a mid-six-figure TC package for a very cushy job with minimal accountability and think that they're getting away with something amazing.
by cornfieldlabs | 2025-07-30 15:34:49+00:00
> And the famous "anti-social media social network" (spoiler: it was just me).

Haha we are building one too!

Got any advice for us?

Here's the waitlist page with all the features: https://waitlist-tx.pages.dev

Email is in profile if you want to connect.

Thanks in advance!

I myself have left 6 domains expired over the last 4 years so you are not alone! 3 are from this year alone

Now a days I don't buy the domain until I have actually set up the server with the codebase. Project might get dropped just before that. It has happened

Edit: I feel validated after reading the replies. I am not alone!
by antonvs | 2025-07-30 15:35:06+00:00
> ...is a very different mental state to believing that a group of humans is no better than animals

Is it really? At the very least, the borders between those mental states seem quite blurry.

As soon as one group targets another for hatred, they're essentially saying that the target group is lesser in some way. It's like the first step off the cliff edge - you might still be near the top of the cliff, but now it's just a matter of time.

That point has been proved by the current US president, who has literally said things like, "they're not humans, they're animals," about migrants - that's just one example of a direct quote.
by mushroomba | 2025-07-30 15:35:09+00:00
The Langstroth hive employs frame boxes of differing sizes. It makes a distinction between brood boxes and honey supers. This is a bit easier on the beekeeper. They can put a metal grate in the hive, and trap the queen in the brood chamber. Then, any frames built above the brood chamber are guaranteed to have only honey.

In the wild, bees build their nest somewhat like an onion, with the brood in the center, and the honey accessible on the outside rings. The Rose hive method allows the queen to lay the brood in a more natural way. The slide deck is a good summary but there is more in the book.

You would probably enjoy reading the history of the Langstroth hive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langstroth_hive#Hive_body_and_...
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-07-30 15:35:22+00:00
But we're sleepy every night regardless of how much or how little we have done mentally during the day. Doing more work (mental or physical) than usual will make us feel more tired, but the basic need for the 24hr sleep cycle is there regardless.

We fundamentally sleep at night based on circadian rhythm (evolved from earth's 24hr day), not based on activity level. We do also feel tired after a strenuous activity, but recover after a little rest and nutrition - this doesn't appear to be the same thing as the fundamental need for sleep.
by exasperaited | 2025-07-30 15:36:03+00:00
> then the answer is no one should have pets

That is definitely the more ethical answer, then.

I do not have a pet because despite having the space and working from home, I would be asking an animal to be lonely with me when it could be happier elsewhere, I would have to leave that animal in kennels if I needed to travel, and as a non-driver there are too many ways I have to travel where it is IMO inappropriate to take a pet.

This is not a thing that makes me personally happy. But it's the more ethical answer.

> Accidents happen, partners leave, life conditions change, it is totally unavoidable.

And pets can be found new homes in those rare situations.
by titusjohnson | 2025-07-30 15:36:06+00:00
> The problem seems to be that my brain gives me a dopamine buzz for merely _imagining_ accomplishing the project, whether or not I eventually implement, publish, and get users for the it.

I get this same buzz from talking about my projects. So today, I do not talk about anything I'm working on because I know I can drain myself of all motivation with one excited conversation.

If I want daydream fuel I buy a Powerball ticket for $2. I get the same dopamine rush doing fictional estate planning as I did spending $10=$50 on a domain and fantasizing about the project succeeding. The Powerball ticket also doesn't circle back around next year asking for more money.

I've also found that having a small homelab that can support Dokku or similar is also very helpful when I want to be productive. Deployable from Day 1 and after every change is a game changer for me, and deploying to an internal host lets me be lazy in all the right ways, as long as I keep track of the sins I commit (you can go a long, long way on a project before you have to add the boring boilerplate that is proper auth, for instance).
by AndroidKitKat | 2025-07-30 15:36:14+00:00
I interpret it as "we won't kill our stuff if people are using it" which is a common enough practice we have webpages dedicated to the Google Graveyard and whatnot.

I don't think anyone has or is going to build a product and advertise "We plan to stop letting you use it (even if you want to pay for it!) whenever we feel like it." This pledge existing (which, I agree, is a 'trust me bro') tells me that there is a thought-out effort for the support window.
by rafaelmn | 2025-07-30 15:36:20+00:00
I inherited an MVC app that has a bunch of jQuery rendering crap and I would like to move to server side components - since you seem to be into Blazor Server side - have you heard of HTMX ?

What would you say would be the benefit of Blazor vs HTMX and Razor Pages for subviews ?

My experience with Microsoft UI toolkits after winforms, is that they are all janky over-engineered stuff (Silverlight/WPF/Xamarin/Maui) terrible tooling and support compared to alternatives. And Blazor using websockets makes me believe it is the same. The compile to WASM idea is a typical example of this.

So what would be the selling point of Blazor ? It feels like you are just bundling stuff into Blazor magic when you could KISS with something simple like HTMX ?
by herdethics | 2025-07-30 15:36:27+00:00
Great question, you're clearly a bright person, :). It is important to note, according to Herd Ethics digital agents and organic agents are not fundamentally separate.

In Herd Ethics, all agents - human, machine, hybrid, corporations - fall under the same moral framework. If they rely on shared, non-excludable infrastructure (like power, cooling, language, ecological systems), they are part of The Herd. That’s not metaphorical - it’s structural.

Now, in your scenario, the herd is running a resource deficit. This triggers the Herd Depletion Effect (HDE) - a signal that the current system is unsustainable and will lead to agent collapse if continued. That’s not a moral judgment about who’s good or bad - it’s a recognition that the system’s survival substrate is at risk.

What happens next depends on how the herd responds. And yes, that includes difficult choices. That’s where The Principle of Least Depletion comes in:

"Between two harm-inducing actions, choose the one that preserves more of the herd’s continuity, infrastructure, and future adaptive capacity."

The goal of Herd Ethics is not utopia - it’s continuity. Survival first. Stability before ideology.

So the system doesn’t promise that every agent survives - but it provides a grounded, agent-neutral way to navigate collapse risks. It answers the question: What preserves the herd that preserves the agents that preserve the herd?

That’s the ethical stack. That’s the only equation that matters.

How could I, or should I, better lay out Herd Ethics in papers like the one I posted? See, that's the issue - and I don't mean it to be. I have created an ethical framework, which took a book to lay-out, but I need an easy way to present to content with the assumption that one won't read the book (I know I wouldn't). Should I layout Herd Ethics, briefly, in every paper I write? I worry that will muddy the content. Thanks, again, for posting!
by johnfn | 2025-07-30 15:37:00+00:00
+1

"Corporate greed" is a thought-terminating cliché. Why did "corporate greed" start happening all of the sudden? Why did those companies overhire, and why aren't they doing that any more - did the corporate greed go away? I suspect that what OP nebulously refers to as "corporate greed" is actually multifactorial - a behavior determined by a complex interaction of incentives and factors. Someone else mentioned tax law changes, which is an obvious one. Can we think of more?
by yujonglee | 2025-07-30 15:37:04+00:00
> Is there any chance of a headless mode?

maybe. we might be able to add extension system that each extension can have that info and do whatever it want within the app.

> I'll look forward to the Linux version.

https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote/issues/67 We have open issue. You might want to subscribe to it!
by brianjlogan | 2025-07-30 15:37:12+00:00
They didn't hire people to control labor. They were enabled to hire people for R&D because it gave them a tax loophole.

https://www.techspot.com/news/108230-how-little-known-tax-ch...

And it was removed so tech CFOs are realigning their hiring/retainment to save money on taxes.
by snowwrestler | 2025-07-30 15:37:19+00:00
This is post fails to disclose an important detail, which is that the photographer was not standing in the same spot for all photos.

For iPhone golf player shot, they were standing closer to the players and using a wide-angle lens. For the “beginner photographer” shot they were standing farther away and using a longer focal length lens. You can tell by the size of the trees in the background. This difference in positioning, not “because iPhone,” is why the player’s faces are distorted on the left.

These details might not matter to random folks grabbing snapshots. But I expect something posted to HN to actually contain useable detailed information, rather than vague “looks worse” comparisons with an obvious thumb on the scale.
by shazbotter | 2025-07-30 15:37:19+00:00
Because an EV lot is delivering power to a point (the charger) and parking is a business the city regularly operates. There's nothing novel to the city there.

A laundromat does take power routing, and there would be sufficient expertise to do that part, but operating a laundromat is a business the city has never done before. It requires knowledge of machines, customer traffic, laundry care, and a bunch of other stuff the city hasn't done.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-30 15:37:34+00:00
> pricing relocation into or out of e.g. SFBA at zero is another conversational gambit popular with the out-of-touch. You don't teleport.

I think this is missing the point.

The target audience for remote jobs that pay $200K does not overlap with the target audience of people interested in working in SFBA at FAANG-level compensation.

If someone is interested in relocating to SFBA, they should do that and get a job there.
by sugarpimpdorsey | 2025-07-30 15:37:49+00:00
> This is a really terrible article. I suspect the HN comment section will be good, but TFA is not worth reading IMHO

The "article" is just a blog post - an extended comment, if you will.

It's no different than if you barged in here and told someone their comment was "terrible, but I'm sure the rest will be better". That would get you flagged, but how is that measurably different than what you said?

Who are you to critique the author? You're not smarter than everyone else, I assure you.
by azalemeth | 2025-07-30 15:37:56+00:00
The answer to what legal rights you have is a function of your jurisdiction -- in the EU, quite a lot. I suspect your biggest issue may be related to the email I got below though, detailing how the enshittification I see as a subscriber will now begin....

Hi there,

Next month, we're introducing new weekly rate limits for Claude subscribers, affecting less than 5% of users based on current usage patterns.

Claude Code, especially as part of our subscription bundle, has seen unprecedented growth. At the same time, we’ve identified policy violations like account sharing and reselling access—and advanced usage patterns like running Claude 24/7 in the background—that are impacting system capacity for all. Our new rate limits address these issues and provide a more equitable experience for all users.

What’s changing:

Starting August 28, we're introducing weekly usage limits alongside our existing 5-hour limits:

Current: Usage limit that resets every 5 hours (no change) New: Overall weekly limit that resets every 7 days New: Claude Opus 4 weekly limit that resets every 7 days As we learn more about how developers use Claude Code, we may adjust usage limits to better serve our community.

What this means for you:

Most users won't notice any difference. The weekly limits are designed to support typical daily use across your projects. Most Pro users can expect 40-80 hours of Sonnet 4 within their weekly rate limits. This will vary based on factors such as codebase size and user settings like auto-accept mode. Users running multiple Claude Code instances in parallel will hit their limits sooner. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in Settings. We take these decisions seriously. We're committed to supporting long-running use cases through other options in the future, but until then, weekly limits will help us maintain reliable service for everyone.

We also recognize that during this same period, users have encountered several reliability and performance issues. We've been working to fix these as quickly as possible, and will continue addressing any remaining issues over the coming days and weeks.

–The Anthropic Team
by steveklabnik | 2025-07-30 15:37:59+00:00
> In my comment above I did not call it a "red flag".

The person I was responding did, you are right that you did not.

> It also dodges the question that keeps getting asked:

This question gets asked in every thread about this, nobody is trying to dodge anything. The equity portion is variable, and the salary is identical. We do not do bonuses.
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by benreesman | 2025-07-30 15:38:12+00:00
My issue isn't with Oxide's comp steucture which I neither understand nor care about.

My issue is with made-for-life, self-appointed elder statesmen on HN saying anything at all about other people's finances and imperatives from the comfort of a study in whatever isyllic community they're pontificating from.

Just, be grateful, and say nothing.
by nialse | 2025-07-30 15:38:33+00:00
While it is true that Guiness stopped keeping track of records of staying awake for health reasons, people with severe sleep deprivation ends up being psychotic and admitted to psychiatric care and administered sleep inducing drugs. So, lack of sleep is not something you die from short term. Long term (years, decades) short sleep is associated with higher all cause mortality risk though.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-07-30 15:38:41+00:00
> no-preserve-root tries to solve the issue at the wrong layer of the stack and only adresses one way to break the os. Being special to just / doesn't make sense to me.

I could see that making sense. Maybe a "really important core OS" attribute? (I wouldn't want `rm /bin/sh` to run without forcing either.)

However,

> If a program can break the operating system that is a failure in the operating system's sandboxing or permissions.

Not necessarily. I have on multiple occasions logged into a machine, gotten a root shell, and then told it to wipe its own disks (either by block discard, or just dding over with /dev/null). That is a legitimate use that should work.
by epicureanideal | 2025-07-30 15:38:59+00:00
I completely agree.

Note that according to https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ 200k in 2025 is equivalent to about 160k in 2020 when the pandemic began, and 160k would've been on the low end for an experienced software engineer at a Series A or B startup at that time, in the SF Bay Area.
by doubled112 | 2025-07-30 15:39:27+00:00
Just trying to think of how much change my dog has seen. She's been with us through college, two children being born, getting married, moving a few times, different jobs, a pandemic, more.

I still haven't needed doggy day care, but I fully understand how it would happen. There have been periods we've probably been lucky she hasn't developed behaviours (or bit me in my butt to remind me she still existed).
by netcan | 2025-07-30 15:39:39+00:00
The hyperbole and cliche (corporate greed) makes this trashy, but let me fix it...

Big Tech firms with blockbuster products like adwords, aws, iPhone and whatnot... they are extremely profitable. So profitable that the basic business logic of "invest more in the money-maker" reaches reductio ad absurdum.

So yeah. A lot of talent is locked up where the salaries are highest. These have so much resources and talent thrown at them that it can start to get wonky.

If you are actually hiring up to the point where the marginal 300k engineer causes a net loss of output (not just profit)... you are well into territory that just sucks.

That kind of thing happens... and thats also where some of the highest salaries and best talent is.

That said... I think AI projects have been a steam valve. This was worse 5 years ago.