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Elevated Errors on Claude

hnarayanan — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:36:14 +0000

Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/j160kkjmm2n1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286639

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by hnarayanan in "Making"

hnarayanan — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:37:04 +0000

This is the take on this entire thread that I resonate with the most.

As a systems person, I do not know how to share with a details person how the combination of some magically conjured (and sometimes inscrutable) building blocks can still take us to interesting and joyful end results.

New comment by hnarayanan in "A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp"

hnarayanan — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:46:55 +0000

Maybe because Brendan Eich was tasked with "doing Scheme in the browser" before it pivoted to JavaScript.

New comment by hnarayanan in "A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp"

hnarayanan — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:20:07 +0000

I had forgotten about this. The last I saw this was 20+ years ago!

New comment by hnarayanan in "A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp"

hnarayanan — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:50:29 +0000

So many words to say: Scheme.

New comment by hnarayanan in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

hnarayanan — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:33:29 +0000

Landing the plane.

New comment by hnarayanan in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

hnarayanan — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:18:19 +0000

I maintain a list of phrases I beg it not to use that it frequently ignores:

- smoking gun - blast radius - landed - spine - earned its keep - grammar - spike - cutover - bake - sprint, epic, story points (all Agile vocabulary) - paper-cuts - amazing, incredible, perfect

New comment by hnarayanan in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

hnarayanan — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:15:25 +0000

I might need to do a spike as this is a core part of the spine. I will verify it and let you know when it's landed.

New comment by hnarayanan in "Show HN: Are You in the Weights?"

hnarayanan — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:11:30 +0000

I love this!

New comment by hnarayanan in "I Won't Buy You a Coffee"

hnarayanan — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:41:39 +0000

Does the OP honestly believe that the cost of maintaining a good blog is the €4/month hosting cost?!

New comment by hnarayanan in "Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints"

hnarayanan — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:18:18 +0000

I used to do this when I was in grad school as a matter of principle. F the man.

New comment by hnarayanan in "Angular v22"

hnarayanan — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:01:15 +0000

Wow, a post about Angular published on Medium!

New comment by hnarayanan in "Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer?"

hnarayanan — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:41:15 +0000

Please share some of your tools.

New comment by hnarayanan in "From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control"

hnarayanan — Mon, 04 May 2026 09:27:38 +0000

Where are my RCS people at?

Gridpaper (scientific plotting tool) reaches 1.0

hnarayanan — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:00:10 +0000

Article URL: https://gridpaper.org/examples/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552846

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Digg Is Gone Again

hnarayanan — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:25:24 +0000

Article URL: https://digg.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427754

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by hnarayanan in "Why Mathematica does not simplify sinh(arccosh(x))"

hnarayanan — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:30:11 +0000

This is a general pattern in CAS. For a more basic case, it’s not obvious sqrt(square(x)) will simplify to x without any further assumptions on x.

New comment by hnarayanan in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

hnarayanan — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:05:07 +0000

Shock, gasp.

New comment by hnarayanan in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

hnarayanan — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:56:07 +0000

It has been so much fun. :)

New comment by hnarayanan in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

hnarayanan — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:20:41 +0000

I do understand this sentiment. But I wish these experts would see that they too are novices in literally every other field that they are not explicitly trained or experienced in. It is fun to explore curiosities even in spaces you don't know well.