Ask HN: What would you most like to see improved in the Claude Code interface?
What problems have you encountered with the Claude Code executable, or more generally with the interface (not the model)?
davidbjaffe
Re:The Silurian Hypothesis (2020)
on Saturday July 25, 2026 @03:13PM (#49050623)
Silurian Hypothesis, SETI, a widely help motivation for space exploration, much of sci-fi: all posit a high-ish rate of life (or intelligent life) invention, because the alternative is terrifying. I/we need/enjoy this, but it's fiction. When humans reason about the rate, they're extremely biased by what they want to be true.
Re:Ask HN: What would you most like to see improved in the Claude Code...
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @01:20PM (#48662978)
My current most annoying thing: usage policy violations that come out of nowhere. I'm having claude develop code for processing scientific article PDFs, and I'm pretty sure the article content triggers the violation. Worse:
- No info on the details are provided.
- Whatever you do after that (without restarting or rewinding), you still get the error.
- Filing an issue doesn't go anywhere. But this must be happening to thousands of users.
Ask HN: Are you OK with DeepSeek and other labs reading your data?
If you provide read permission on a directory, might the content be exfiltrated and used commercially? Or is this just paranoia?
Re:Ask HN: Mining Scientific Papers
on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:22PM (#47954049)
Wow! I had not tried deepseek. I just had claude teach me how to use it, and then tested it on the same example, which it got right, and for which it charged next to nothing. This is wonderful and completely hilarious -- that claude would happily give away business. Thank you!!
P.S. Now it occurs to me that maybe I'm not comfortable with deepseek having access to directories on my computer.
Ask HN: Mining Scientific Papers
What are peoples' experiences with using LLMs to mine information from scientific papers?My own experience: I first attempted to extract the anti-drug antibody (ADA) rate from each of 3730 clinical-trial papers, all indexed in PubMed. I started from PDFs. Claude Opus 4.7 analyzed each PDF using a written rules doc that we had formulated. Running all the papers took about a week because I...
Re:Filing the Corners Off MacBooks
on Friday April 10, 2026 @11:18PM (#47726994)
Yes. I keep mine on my lap. My regimen is that I wake up at 3am and lie on the couch for several hours with coffee and write code (or these days, ask "someone else" to). It is highly productive and enjoyable and breaks all the rules and no I do not have RSI. Long ago I started sandpapering the edges because yeah otherwise it hurts my wrists.
Re:Google releases Gemma 4 open models
on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:25AM (#47627012)
Cool! For GLM-OCR, do you use "Option 2: Self-host with vLLM / SGLang" and in that case, am I correct that there is no internet connection involved and hence connection timeouts would be avoided entirely?
Re:George Goble died recently – known for first dual-CPU-Unix and fast...
on Thursday April 02, 2026 @04:18PM (#47619631)
When I was in junior high school and high school, I would hang out at the Purdue University chess club. He was a regular, prone to laughter, a funny guy. We would play double speed chess (which we called "p'dorky") and other silliness. I had no idea he went on to do the cool things that he did.