Hacker News: redml

New comment by redml in "Google changes its search box"

redml — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:50:10 +0000

accuracy hasn't been their priority for a while now - they just want people to click on ads

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

redml — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:01:18 +0000

they said how they stopped writing code themselves a few months ago. it really shows.

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

redml — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:01:40 +0000

It does cost more but I found the quality of output much higher. I prefer it over the dumbing of effort/models they were doing for the last two months. They have to get users used to picking the appropriate model for their task (or have an automatic mode - but still let me force it to a model).

New comment by redml in "Claude Opus 4.7"

redml — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:48:03 +0000

thats it! thanks for digging it up

New comment by redml in "Claude Opus 4.7"

redml — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:44:47 +0000

It's hard to say. Admittedly I'm a heavy user as I intentionally cap out my 5x plan every week - I've personally found that I get more usage being on older versions of CC and being very vigilant on context management. But nobody can say for sure, we know they have A/B test capabilities from the CC leaks so it's just a matter of turning on a flag for a heavy user.

New comment by redml in "Claude Opus 4.7"

redml — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:38:34 +0000

someone did the math and posted it somewhere, I forgot where, searching for it again just provides the numbers i remember seeing. at the time i remembered what it was like on pro vs 5x and it felt correct. again, it may not be representative of today.

New comment by redml in "Claude Opus 4.7"

redml — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:45:26 +0000

a few months ago it was for weekly:

pro = 5m tokens, 5x = 41m tokens, 20x = 83m tokens

making 5x the best value for the money (8.33x over pro for max 5x). this information may be outdated though, and doesn't apply to the new on peak 5h multipliers. anything that increases usage just burns through that flat token quota faster.

New comment by redml in "Claude Opus 4.7"

redml — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:36:36 +0000

--model claude-opus-4-7 works as well

New comment by redml in "Claude Opus 4.7"

redml — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:34:28 +0000

they've also introduced a lot of caching and token burn related bugs which makes things worse. any bug that multiplies the token burn also multiplies their infrastructure problems.

New comment by redml in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

redml — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:18:50 +0000

Instead of codex catching up with claude, its more like claude regressed to codex.

New comment by redml in "Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message"

redml — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:34:17 +0000

Honestly? It was the claude code leak that did it. There was a lot more smoke and mirrors than I anticipated, the poisoning tool calls, how their prompting is, how "messy" a lot of it was etc.

I meant that I thought the exponential with the models is slowing down (AGI, etc). The application though for regular people will continue to go forward.

New comment by redml in "Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message"

redml — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:37:53 +0000

this is indicative to me that the exponential is slowing down. tool and model progress was huge in 2025 but has been pretty stale this year. the usage changes from anthropic, gemini, and openai indicate it's just a scale of economy issue now so unless there's a major breakthrough they're just going to settle down as vendors of their own particular similar flavor of apis.

New comment by redml in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

redml — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:01:14 +0000

Even if they fix it, and that's a big if - It doesn't really mean anything when they have a ton of MBAs and product managers working internally to make it creep back in. It's going to take a decade to grow trust again and I don't think they're up to the task.

New comment by redml in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

redml — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:11:43 +0000

regardless of your opinion of ai in government, sam could not have picked a worse way for optics to swoop in and make a deal. it just looks incredibly bad.

New comment by redml in "YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers"

redml — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:29:22 +0000

i had that happen on firefox mobile months ago and installed video background play fix which all it does is stop sending the js hooks for when tab/window focus is lost. it was something clearly targeted to mobile browsers for people like me who don't bother with official apps anymore as they're riddled with antipatterns and ads. you can just youtube to the homepage like it's an app anyway.

New comment by redml in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

redml — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:40:19 +0000

it's hard to get invested into anything google when they've been non stop killing products or making them worse for over a decade.

New comment by redml in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

redml — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 08:42:52 +0000

if the uk wants to be a authoritarian state then do it properly and not this grey area of "you're passively sending packets so you're fined a billion dollars so you block us"

it's worse than china's firewall

New comment by redml in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

redml — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 08:34:55 +0000

How many other laws can I passively break in other countries I have no connection to?

New comment by redml in "Gemini in Chrome"

redml — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:53:13 +0000

being privacy centric is a badge of honor these days, so if they aren't making it clear or not giving an easy to find option, then it's a guaranteed to your queries and outputs are used for training.

New comment by redml in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

redml — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:51:11 +0000

Funny, until now I assumed the "buffering" was just something shoddy with the google infrastructure. Youtube has a reputation for pushing buggy/undesirable changes and already has slow javascript widgets on it so at this point I expect it and "just deal with it". It didn't even occur to me they were trying to poison the well with regards to adblockers.