Hacker News: mcast

New comment by mcast in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

mcast — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:05:25 +0000

Stripe seems to be doing fairly well as a private company. They continually offer liquidity events for employees to cash out, while also retaining less pressure for hypergrowth from outside activists and investors.

New comment by mcast in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

mcast — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:10:53 +0000

It sounds like Anthropic is dangerously low on compute availability if they’re prioritizing these refusals as their OKRs.

New comment by mcast in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

mcast — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:38:11 +0000

I've been very content moving away from OneDrive/GDrive to a personal NAS setup with Synology/Ugreen. You can access a shared drive/photo drive and use Tailscale to mount your volume from anywhere.

I've also configured encrypted cloud backups to a different geographic region and off-site backups to a friend's NAS (following the 3-2-1 backup rule). It does help having 2.5Gb networking as well, but owning your data is more important in the coming age of sloppy/degrading infrastructure and ransomware attacks.

New comment by mcast in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

mcast — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:49:10 +0000

Lockdown mode is opt-in only though

New comment by mcast in "Goodbye to Sora"

mcast — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:28:44 +0000

I guess this is a bullish sign OpenAI has hired a lot of PMs from Google!

New comment by mcast in "Layoffs at Block"

mcast — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:37:35 +0000

>repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust [...] i'd rather take a hard, clear action now [...] than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome

I think this is pretty agreeable, spanning layoffs into a monthly/quarterly "Hunger Games" is very damaging to employee morale.

New comment by mcast in "Anthropic bans OAuth tokens (including Agent SDK) in 3P tools"

mcast — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:13:35 +0000

Using OAuth tokens from Claude Code/Claude.ai in third party tools such as OpenClaw or OpenCode now officially warrants a ToS violation.

https://x.com/robzolkos/status/2024125323755884919?s=46

Anthropic bans OAuth tokens (including Agent SDK) in 3P tools

mcast — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:13:34 +0000

Article URL: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/legal-and-compliance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063384

Points: 9

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New comment by mcast in "Twitter(X) Is Down"

mcast — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:04:22 +0000

Selecting your own mute words for your timeline is the best part about Twitter. The algorithm changes have been pretty bad in the last few weeks though.

New comment by mcast in "Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo"

mcast — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:28:05 +0000

I should note this only happens in Claude Code, not the web UI. Since CC is agentic and spawns subagents on prompts that require a lot of thinking.

It will spend a lot of time grokking the codebase, which would consume more tokens on larger projects.

New comment by mcast in "Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo"

mcast — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:29:44 +0000

It's known that Anthropic's $20 Pro subscription is a gateway plan to their $100 Max subscription, since you'll easily burn your token rate on a single prompt or two. Meanwhile, I've had ample usage testing out Codex on the basic $20 ChatGPT Plus plan without a problem.

As for Anthropic's $100 Max subscription, it's almost always better to start new sessions for tasks since a long conversation will burn your 5-hour usage limit with just a few prompts (assuming they read many files). It's also best to start planning first with Claude, providing line numbers and exact file paths prior, and drilling down the requirements before you start any implementation.

New comment by mcast in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

mcast — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 04:10:11 +0000

I’m not surprised they closed the loophole, it always felt a little hacky using an Anthropic monthly sub as an API with a spoofed prompt (“You are Claude Code, Anthropic's official CLI for Claude”) with OpenCode.

Google will probably close off their Antigravity models to 3P tools as well.

New comment by mcast in "ChatGPT Health"

mcast — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:54:50 +0000

This is not much different than a smarter WebMD, if anything, more doctors are using ChatGPT with their patients today than you realize anyway.

Not to mention, doctors are absolutely fallible and misdiagnose constantly.

New comment by mcast in "How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI"

mcast — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:08:18 +0000

It’s incredibly impressive to see a large company with over 30x as many employees (or 2x if you compare with GDM) than OAI step back into the AI race compared to where they were with Bard a few years ago.

Google has proved it doesn’t want to be the next IBM or Microsoft.

New comment by mcast in "Email bombs exploit lax authentication in Zendesk"

mcast — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:45:53 +0000

Better yet, setup transaction alerts on all your credit cards, and use a budgeting app like Monarch/YNAB to review all your household transactions each month or receive weekly email summaries.

New comment by mcast in "America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom"

mcast — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:41:12 +0000

I agree, but a lot of petty/non-violent crime isn't enforced or reported anymore.

New comment by mcast in "The World Trade Center under construction through photos, 1966-1979"

mcast — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:51:05 +0000

The subway systems is one of the greatest socioeconomic equalizers in NYC. During rush hour, you'll share a subway car with a homeless man, an ER doctor wearing scrubs, a fashion model wearing YSL, a finance bro, and a food delivery worker. It's an amazing city for people watching.

New comment by mcast in "Cluely - a desktop application to let you cheat on anything"

mcast — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 23:36:41 +0000

There might be a future market for proctored classrooms for adults taking interviews.

Or maybe companies will ship a special “interview video kit” that will include having a candidate setup a tripod and camera recording their screen.

New comment by mcast in "OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B"

mcast — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:48:20 +0000

The difference is Tesla had a moat with the electric car market, there were no affordable and practical EVs 10 years ago. OpenAI is surrounded by competition and Meta is constantly releasing Llama weights to break up any closed source monopolies.

New comment by mcast in "Mira Murati leaves OpenAI"

mcast — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:15:40 +0000

Trent Reznor and David Fincher need to team up again to make a movie about this.