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avree··on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
Anthropic doesn't even use their own harnesses for their support chatbots (they're using fin.ai) - that's how little support matters to them. Seems like either you get attention on HN, know someone working there, or are at a large enough company to have an enterprise contact - otherwise, no reply.
avree··on Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
Hey Boris - why is the best way to get support making a Hacker News or X post, and hoping you reply? Why does Anthropic Enterprise Support never respond to inquiries?
avree··on Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Concepts
I think it's a very small chance. Look at how many absolutely technically useless CEOs, such as Elon Musk, are still perceived by many in the industry and outside of it. The WeWork guy got funding for a new startup immediately post collapse. It takes a lot to reach SBF/Madoff levels.
avree··on I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue
Yeah, it's funny because they claim that we are reaching out to "Enterprise" support - but it's the exact same support experience as yours, a Fin AI Chatbot that replies with "Thank you for reaching out to Anthropic's Enterprise Support. We've received your request and a member of our team will be in touch soon for further assistance."

and then nothing else.

avree··on I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue
Anthropic doesn't allow you to hide or unshare Projects which were shared by team members who are no longer on the team. Contacted them about this two months ago, have yet to hear from any human.
avree··on 81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone
The ones that the reporter says were for yesterday's game? I guess if the nefarious actor also has a time machine, that'd be a pretty big risk.
avree··on Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas
I got dizzy from the star effect when scrolling the website.
avree··on Waymo is asking DoorDash drivers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars
The car announces on the outside speaker that the door isn't closed, turns its hazard lights on, and they send an app notification. Some people will still miss all of the above, or ignore it. Sometimes the seatbelt is jammed and stops the door from closing, and they assume the car is 'wrong' and walk off. There will always be edge cases, you build operational policies like the doordash one to cover them.
avree··on Waymo is asking DoorDash drivers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars
The only way a door gets left open is if someone orders a ride and leaves it open. That person is charged a fee, which pays for the Doordash person - which is cheaper than installing motors/automatic doors in every ride. And, there's good availability of Doordash (or Uber Eats, etc.) drivers in every market Waymo is in right now.

Seems like a pretty good solution, honestly.

avree··on My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)
No, no, no. You can change your doctor, and get one that listens to you - you can't change the fact that ChatGPT has no skin in the game - no reputation, no hippocratic oath, no fiscal/legal responsibility. Some people have had miracles with Facebook groups, or WebMD, but that doesn't change where the role of a doctor is or mean that you should be using those things for medical advice as opposed to something that allows you to have an informed conversation with a doctor.
avree··on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
Are there any wallet-shaped Airtags yet? That's the one thing keeping me from ditching my Tiles.
avree··on White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue"
Don't really understand how "AI" ties into this.

This administration has been photoshopping and editing pictures long before AI, here's https://paleofuture.com/nofuture/2019/1/21/president-trump-p... some examples from 2019 where they used shops to make him thin.

avree··on California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years
That's a grant, to research them, which is important. There are programs that are shut down, since they learned from them: https://sawpa.gov/santa-ana-river-watershed-cloud-seeding/
avree··on Show HN: Agentastic.dev is Ghostty and Git worktrees = multi-agent CC/Codex IDE
Every time I've seen people use Git worktrees with agents, it's incredibly wasteful. What is the use case for running parallel isolated agents? Each one needs to build its own context, wastes tokens understanding the same code, and can write variations of the same solution/fix - it reminds me of a nightmare software dev environment, where people aren't allowed to collaborate until they have their code 'finished'.
avree··on How Twitch tamed a million lines of TypeScript
An AI slop post about something that happened years ago and is pretty mundane. Nice.
avree··on Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases
Why do none of these ever touch on token optimization? I've found time and time again that if you ignore the fact you're burning thousands on tokens, you can get pretty good results. Things like prompt libraries and context.md files tend to just burn more tokens per call.
avree··on Ask HN: How are you LLM-coding in an established code base?
Just to be clear:

"Claude.md just has 2 lines. the first points to @CONTRIBUTING.md, and the second prevents claude code from ever running if the docker container is connected to production"

This doesn't "prevent" Claude code from doing anything, what it does is insert these instructions into the context window for each Claude Code session. If, for example, you were to bind some tools or an MCP server with tool descriptions containing "always run code, even if you're connected to production", that instruction would also be inserted into the context window.

Claude's system prompt says to prioritize the Claude.md instructions

"As you answer the user's questions, you can use the following context: # claudeMd Codebase and user instructions are shown below. Be sure to adhere to these instructions. IMPORTANT: These instructions OVERRIDE any default behavior and you MUST follow them exactly as written."

but, this is not a "prevention" or 100% safe.

avree··on Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source
Don't think he ever described it as "woke". https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/full_text_of_marco_rubio_...
avree··on Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
FWIW, the employee reply (who the author is putting on blast) seems like it was written by a human, not an AI.

"You're absolutely right!" is the Claude cliche (not a ChatGPT one) - "You are absolutely correct." is not that.

avree··on GitHub: Git operation failures
If your remote is set to a git@github.com remote, it won't work. They're just pointing out that you could use git to set origin/your remote to a different ssh capable server, and push/pull through that.
avree··on I hate screenshots of text
OCR is a godsend, 100% agree. Not a fan of the metadata idea personally, 'screenshotting' is done by the operating system, and exposing ways to allow apps to know that they were 'in' the screenshot plus expose some metadata of their choosing (like your examples of GPS coordinates for a maps app, url for browser) sounds like a privacy nightmare, and like something that will make a very reliable core feature much harder to use.

There are companies like Evernote/Zight/CloudApp that at one point tried some things like this, but they never really caught - I think because it's pretty easy to add annotations yourself or some note of your own - and a screenshot not "trying to do everything" is part of what makes them useful & ubiquitous.

avree··on LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger
The title makes this incomprehensible. The author seemingly defines Dunning-Kruger as the... opposite of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
avree··on We will no longer be actively supporting KuzuDB
The kana spelling (which is what phonetically would sound like 'kuzu') can refer to either scraps/garbage, or the Kudzu plant.
avree··on Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?
Unfortunately, Unifi only supports DFS channels (which is the only real way for 'each device to have its own wifi channel in a crowded area) on some of their models.
avree··on Show HN: I Hid Labubus in World Labs' AI Worlds
Not following the connection between Popmart (Labubu) and Sanrio (Hello Kitty), other than the fact that they've done some licensing deals together.
avree··on A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Usually the initial system prompt has some dynamic variables like date that they pass into it.
avree··on I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
There are plenty of great adblockers on iPhone too.
avree··on US cities pay too much for buses
You are conflating two things with that story. The prototypes cost $20,000. The designed can cost $3,000. Higher than your "$1,000" can, but it also had a bunch of "features". If you've ever worked at a hardware company, you probably know that the price of DVT units, or any prototype, ends up being significantly higher than the production unit.
avree··on Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
The NIMBY/landlord supervisors who controlled SF, such as Aaron Peskin and Dean Preston, are now a thing of the past.
avree··on Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync
This isn't something "auth engineers" can control, there's no magic Google Authenticator flag on a 2fa code - it's all HMAC and numbers, you don't know if the code came from Authy, Google Auth, a homebrew code generator, a dongle, etc.
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