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Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by abalashov »

In all seriousness, between DeepSeek-V4-Pro, Kimi K2.6 and now K2.7-Code, Xiaomi's MiMo-2.5-Pro, and Qwen3.7 Max, I haven't touched Claude for any sort of programming-related task in months.

I still lean on Claude for research/chat questions that require going out to the world to get the answer competently, but that's just laziness, and all of their competitors can do that, too.

I don't use OpenAI or Gemini, either. The Chinese models are just that good. If all three of the US majors banned me, I think that'd be just fine.

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by 59nadir »

Bishonen88 wrote: post #29
pyeri wrote: post #18

Might not be a very popular advice or even what you're looking for, but I think Anthropic banning you (or any user for that matter) is a blessing in disguise. The sheer amount of compute resources consumed by their high reasoning "pondering..." and "bloviating..." tokens isn't sustainable at scale. Eventually, they must ban everyone but those with deep and infinite pockets in order for this model to be sustainable an…

This is as unhelpful as it gets. The genie is out of the bottle - people can create unimaginable things with claude within hours. What would take months/years can be done in a day or a week. Being banned on those platforms is a real setback for many users. One might argue that openai etc. are valid alternatives, but when they dropped fable (and perhaps reinstate?), not being able to use it simply means others can do…

> What would take months/years can be done in a day or a week.

Hahahaha, this reads like pure unadulterated marketing. I sincerely hope you're getting paid for these things at least, it would be sad for you to be this way without even getting anything in return.

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by outime »

At the end of the day, the only guaranteed way to retain access to LLMs is to run an open model on your own hw. Which at this time, it's often inferior but may change in the future.

Also, I'll never be grateful enough for all the horror stories about Google accounts getting randomly banned - they were what finally pushed me to make a similar move.

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by benj111 »

Littice wrote: post #11

The part that would bother me most is not the ban itself, but having no idea what to change. “Policy violation” could mean VPN, billing risk, location, or actual usage.

All online services are like this. I used to sell stuff on eBay. Had multiple accounts randomly closed. Never did find out why.

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by jasonkester »

It's amazing that companies still can't handle the concept of somebody moving to a different country but still using a credit card from their original country.

I spent two days on the phone with Microsoft last year trying to find a way to pay them $700 to renew my lapsed Visual Studio subscription. I live in France and want to pay with a US card (or UK card or even a French card at this point), but because of some combination of physical location, store location, account location, card country, and vpn that I had on the first time I tried the process, the system is in a state where it can never again process a payment for me.

There are like 5 or 6 companies where I'm in this state. You get exactly one try to guess the magic combination of all those things above to get the backend to sail you through smoothly. If you blow it, it'll write everything down and refuse to let you change anything, then drop you into an infinite loop telling you to just change [store|country|card country|hairstyle] and sending you back to the beginning.

I mean sure, it's probably saving me a couple grand a year in services that I wish I could get working. But it baffles me that those companies don't want that money for themselves.

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by londons_explore »

f311a wrote: post #33
rspoerri wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont know why people use openrouter ,instead of a monthly subscription, if they can. While i am barely able to use up my 100$ monthly subscription, i can easily spend 10$ a day on openrouter (200-300$/month). Using top-tier models on openrouter is so much more expensive from my experience then any subscription.

I'm using Deepseek flash for certain tasks, it is pretty hard to spend $10 on it. All their top models (by usage) are not from frontier labs.

I suspect the main use of these models is for sending mass spam campaigns and other low-value tasks which are very price sensitive.

If you're paid a Western salary and using the model interactively (eg. For coding), you are wasting time+money by using the less good models.

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by tosti »

basisword wrote: post #32
pyeri wrote: post #18

Might not be a very popular advice or even what you're looking for, but I think Anthropic banning you (or any user for that matter) is a blessing in disguise. The sheer amount of compute resources consumed by their high reasoning "pondering..." and "bloviating..." tokens isn't sustainable at scale. Eventually, they must ban everyone but those with deep and infinite pockets in order for this model to be sustainable an…

This is idiotic. It’s like telling someone they should be grateful the electric company has banned them because artificial lighting will mess with their body clock.

Nah, more like banning tobacco because it's addictive and bad for your health.

Re: Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do

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Post by grebc »

jasonkester wrote: post #45

It's amazing that companies still can't handle the concept of somebody moving to a different country but still using a credit card from their original country. I spent two days on the phone with Microsoft last year trying to find a way to pay them $700 to renew my lapsed Visual Studio subscription. I live in France and want to pay with a US card (or UK card or even a French card at this point), but because of some co…

Unless you’re on vacation what reason is there for your IP to be on a separate continent to the billing address attached to a credit card? From the POV of all the people in the payment processing chain.
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