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New comment by whalesalad in "Claude Opus 4.7"

whalesalad — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:03:31 +0000

API Error: 400 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"invalid_request_error","message":"\"thinking.type.enabled\" is not supported for this model. Use \"thinking.type.adaptive\" and \"output_config.effort\" to control thinking behavior."},"request_id":"req_011Ca7enRv4CPAEqrigcRNvd"}

Eep. AFAIK the issues most people have been complaining about with Opus 4.6 recently is due to adaptive thinking. Looks like that is not only sticking around but mandatory for this newer model.

edit: I still can't get it to work. Opus 4.6 can't even figure out what is wrong with my config. Speaking of which, claude configuration is so confusing there are .claude/ (in project) setting.json + a settings.local.json file, then a global ~/.claude/ dir with the same configuration files. None of them have anything defined for adaptive thinking or thinking type enable. None of these strings exist on my machine. Running latest version, 2.1.110

New comment by whalesalad in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

whalesalad — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:18:41 +0000

meanwhile I just disabled ipv6 on all my vm's last night due to ubuntu package servers being down and needing to get something critical out the door.

Rsloop – an event loop for asyncio written in Rust

whalesalad — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:09:18 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/RustedBytes/rsloop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793211

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Security.ubuntu.com Is Down

whalesalad — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:12:05 +0000

Article URL: https://status.canonical.com/#/incident/KNms6QK9ewuzz-7xUsPsNylV20jEt5kyKsd8A-3ptQG-0Dp5D6IWR-Dw5G2pjG-aXrj_4QfzB2lRNFJhfuReyQ==

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789296

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by whalesalad in "ChatGPT for Excel"

whalesalad — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:12:21 +0000

Does a highly performant XLSX tool exist? I want to be able to open a 500k row, 60+ column table in Excel and manipulate it at 60+ FPS. Zero lag. I feel like Excel has never - ahem - excelled in this department. Libreoffice comes close and I enjoy it on Linux, but on my M2 Macbook Air it struggles.

New comment by whalesalad in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

whalesalad — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:21:45 +0000

Do some research bud, you might be surprised.

New comment by whalesalad in "Allbirds announces pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes 175%"

whalesalad — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:16:08 +0000

700%*

New comment by whalesalad in "Do you even need a database?"

whalesalad — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:06:38 +0000

Reminds me of the infamous Robert Virding quote:

“Virding's First Rule of Programming: Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.”

New comment by whalesalad in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

whalesalad — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:08:58 +0000

The enshittification of all things. It’s happening in the service industry, too. A lot of contractors like roofing and plumbing are being absorbed into private equity megacorps.

New comment by whalesalad in "Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250 Writerdeck"

whalesalad — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:25:56 +0000

Love the flying toaster screensaver, that was a pleasant surprise.

New comment by whalesalad in "Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue"

whalesalad — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:08:37 +0000

you can recompile and not install it anywhere, just run the binary you compiled yourself.

New comment by whalesalad in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

whalesalad — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:53:33 +0000

This is a really big shocker to most people, especially in America. We see these big huge farmlands with rows and rows of corn. We hear the propaganda that farmers are the backbone of this nation and we can't live without them. Songs sing in our heads, "amber waves of grain, from sea to shining sea". People get a warm and fuzzy feeling. Country music psyop perpetuates this. Meanwhile a substantial portion (as noted here) is garbage. It's genetically modified crap from a fortune 100 company that requires fertilizer and herbicide from the same fortune 100 company and any seeds harvested contractually cannot be re-used so the grower needs to re-buy every year. And it's not for human consumption! A lot of it isn't even for animal consumption, it's for ethanol or other uses. Whole situation just kinda cracks me up.

New comment by whalesalad in "Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue"

whalesalad — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:46:45 +0000

Somewhat related I am thinking of picking up a Bambu A1 as my first foray into 3d printing ... seems to be a really solid move can anyone comment?

New comment by whalesalad in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

whalesalad — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:43:07 +0000

This is what we call throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

New comment by whalesalad in "Claude Code Routines"

whalesalad — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:34:42 +0000

Hard to wanna go all-in on the Anthropic ecosystem with how inconsistent model output from their top-tier has been recently. I pay $$$ for api-level opus 4.6 to avoid any low-tier binning or throttling or subversive "its peak rn so we're gonna serve up sonnet in place of opus for the next few hours" but I still find that the quality has been really hit or miss lately.

The bell curve up and then back down has been so jarring that I am pivoting to fully diversifying my use of all models to ensure that no one org has me by the horns.

New comment by whalesalad in "The AI School Bus Camera Company Blanketing America in Tickets"

whalesalad — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:45:10 +0000

The militant stop for schoolbus story grinds my gears. We don't stop for city buses. Why aren't we teaching children to be defensive and preparing them for the real world. Cross the road when there are no cars. Wait on the side of the road that the bus actually stops at. When a bus stops and I see a kid jump out the door and sprint full throttle in front of the bus and across the opposite lane without so much as a glance I think to myself yikes we are putting a lot of faith in people stopping for flashing red lights.

Fortunately drivers in my area (Detroit Metro) are all in a hurry and seem to want symbiosis with the rest of traffic. They stop and start almost instantly. Kids don't lolly gally. But when I lived in Northern Virginia, it was the opposite. Bus drivers really took liberty with blocking the road for WAY longer than necessary. Huge hall monitor energy, "i'm king of the castle i'll make you wait just to assert myself"

New comment by whalesalad in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

whalesalad — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:52:04 +0000

For sure. If you are in a monorepo this solution works but if you have distinct microservice repositories it would help to coordinate pr #827 on repo-A and pr #1092 on repo-B are related and need to ship in a certain order.

New comment by whalesalad in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

whalesalad — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:51:21 +0000

At first I thought this was a user submitted project due to the subdomain of github.com but then realize the subdomain is also github. Is this an official channel for this sort of thing? Surprised this isn't on the official blog.

New comment by whalesalad in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

whalesalad — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:41:43 +0000

I don't have a problem with violence, but I do take issue with the mass dismissal and outright hatred for AI by people who don't even understand what it is.

New comment by whalesalad in "Filing the Corners Off MacBooks"

whalesalad — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:26:29 +0000

I would remove material from the outside edges of the front, not the center near the trackpad. The blue edges of my M2 air have already become silver and the palm rests have become more silver and glossy like glass from wear. I'm probably going to do something like this.