Hacker News: ed_elliott_asc

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

ed_elliott_asc — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:12:10 +0000

I pay for 20x max and get so much more value out of it than I pay.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

ed_elliott_asc — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:23:50 +0000

If it isn’t working for you why don’t you choose an older model? 4.6

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session"

ed_elliott_asc — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:04:36 +0000

No we increased our plans

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets"

ed_elliott_asc — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:40:38 +0000

Hmm interesting, my gut is that i'm not against it. I think in reality it does happen (take a look at Lucas Paqueta in UK soccer) so may as well accept it - you'll never know who has more to lose (win) a player betting their side will lose or a player on the opponent side betting their side will lose so it should even out.

Gambling is a risk, it isn't just the house's edge but anything can go wrong on the day.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets"

ed_elliott_asc — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:49:27 +0000

I think that we are agreeing here, there should be regulation on the government side and laws without regulating what people can bet on.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets"

ed_elliott_asc — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:48:14 +0000

I'm not a polymarket gambler or a gambler at all really, so I have no skin in this game but why does it have to be fair?

I would say casinos and slot machines are already stealing from the poor and giving to the rich and already a scam, people play them (aside from addicts) because there is a chance they will win, they know not everyone wins.

I'm in favour of people being treated fairly I just think regulation isn't what is required here, more education "play this but the odds are tilted away from you".

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets"

ed_elliott_asc — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:12:07 +0000

Does it need to be regulated? This isn’t pension funds placing bets risking people’s investment money.

People using Polymarket are gambling on pretty random things and must understand the risk , whether it is on major geopolitical events or someone counting cars going through a junction these events can all be manipulated pretty easily.

People want to gamble on random things? Let them.

If anything is regulate the other side, people in government can’t use sites like polymarket because I don’t want them making stupid decisions so bets fall one side or another.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?"

ed_elliott_asc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:19:42 +0000

Just parse responses for "sorry about that"!

Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?

ed_elliott_asc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:25:06 +0000

Something I’ve noticed (I’m using Claude subscription so no refunds but it applies to usage windows) is that sometimes AI makes mistakes so if something is important I tell Claude code to spin up a couple of sub agents and verify the information, often there will be a mistake and it gets rectified.

It feels unfair I have to pay (or lose some usage) for this.

Interested in other people’s thoughts.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688712

Points: 21

# Comments: 23

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

ed_elliott_asc — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:01:22 +0000

I’ve been in IT for 25 years, it has happened to me once, unfortunately it isn’t that uncommon.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

ed_elliott_asc — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:59:13 +0000

This has been coming for weeks ever since Anthropic changed their terms and conditions “just a tidy up” - when that happened I took everything I had done in open claw and migrated into Claude code with /loop and tbh I’m happier because I can see in terminals what is happening rather than the odd slack message here or there and I can also use slack to receive messages.

Thanks openclaw for getting me ahead, I’ve taken that and am in Claude code again.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "So where are all the AI apps?"

ed_elliott_asc — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:48:17 +0000

I think this is right, I can get cause to build me something for my own use that I’d have given up at before, getting to the point of being useable still doesn’t make it shareable.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

ed_elliott_asc — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:52:00 +0000

There are some really good ar glasses for a couple of hundred dollars, I think they are going to end up really cheap and not the 100 billion investment that facebook needs.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

ed_elliott_asc — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:46:54 +0000

It is definitely making me more productive.

Tasks where, in the past, I have thought “if I had a utility to do x it would save me y time” and I’d either start and give up or spend much longer than y on it are now super easy, create a directory, claude “create an app to do x” so simple.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

ed_elliott_asc — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:51:02 +0000

It’s still pretty poor writing powershell

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

ed_elliott_asc — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:00:35 +0000

I don’t understand the content of most of the comments here - am I being thick?

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "MacBook Neo"

ed_elliott_asc — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:52:43 +0000

How often are ooms caused by lack of ram rather than programming?

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks"

ed_elliott_asc — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:52:24 +0000

Develop an ai skill to read articles and come up with a HN post for you :)

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

ed_elliott_asc — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:04:24 +0000

At my kids school the children have been using grok to create pics of other children without clothes on - chatgpt etc won’t let you do that - grok needs some controls and x seem unable to do that themselves.

New comment by ed_elliott_asc in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

ed_elliott_asc — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:27:20 +0000

If I wanted privacy that couldn’t be broken by Microsoft I wouldn’t be using OneDrive.

I would be using an operating system that wasn’t geared up to be cloud backed up and closed source.