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Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases

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Post by yencabulator » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 9:11 PM UTC

Kim_Bruning wrote: post #63

Someone1234 wrote: post #56

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People have tried to run Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 on 4x $600 used, Nvidia 3090s with 24 GB of VRAM each (96 GB total), and while it runs, it is too slow for production grade ( You can quantize it of course, but if the idea is "as close to Sonnet as possible," then while quantized models are objectively more efficient they are sacrificing precision for it. So next step is to up that speed, so we're at 4x $1300, N…

I may have genuinely new data for you. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is reported to perform slightly better than the model you mentioned. It runs fine but non-optimal on a single 3090 with even 131072 tokens of context , and due to the hybrid attention architecture, the memory usage and compute scale rather less drastically than ctx^2. I've had friends with smaller cards still getting work out of it. Generation is at around 20 tok…

One sure would expect Qwen3.5-35B-A3B to "perform slightly better" than Qwen3-235B-A22B!

Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases

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Post by sifengaki » Fri, Apr 17, 2026, 4:18 AM UTC

a2128 wrote: post #89

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #60

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That sounds likely to increase their costs and create new opportunities to get caught. Not a silver bullet but not "absolutely nothing". Like how anti-money laundering laws don't wipe out all crime, but are still worthwhile.

If the API costs are gonna be thousands, or the subscription will be $20/month, is it really that expensive to pay some guy on Discord a $50 gift card to verify the account as a one-time setup? Better yet, we'll probably start seeing fake porn websites and other phishing sites that ask to verify your age but end up proxy verifying a bunch of these services in an automated manner with minimal costs, and you'll be able…

I am a Chinese, and I can tell you definitively that it doesn't cost $50. It will only cost about $7 on the Chinese platform "Xianyu".

Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases

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Post by kay_o » Fri, Apr 17, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC

subscribed wrote: post #73

Mashimo wrote: post #49

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> Why is this necessary if I'm paying Anthropic with a credit card? You can have a CC / Visa / MasterCard when you are under 18 years old, but you need to be 18 or older for Claude. That would be one reasons why CC does not work. Or maybe they suspect you opened a second account after your first got banned for whatever reason. Like you said it's easy to get a new card.

Incidentally I checked my local laws and it's not possible in any of the banks (UK) to add the underage person to my CC account due to their ToS and perhaps regulations. Debit? Sure, some banks will issue them to 11-12 year olds. Credit? Apparently not.

US you can get a debit card or authorised user CC pre-18 fairly easily. I assume might be why.

Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases

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Post by jazz9k » Fri, Apr 17, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC

llm_nerd wrote: post #80

nozzlegear wrote: post #79

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Call it whatever you want then, I'm still interested in the question at hand – your son makes more money than you do professionally, using Claude Code to make something video game related?

He makes solutions for people and they pay him money for doing so. I mean...pretty much exactly how we all operate? He's excellent at networking and has built an enormous connection tree.

This sounds so sketchy and vague. Why do you need to keep defending it, if it's complely legit?

Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases

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Post by llm_nerd » Sun, Apr 19, 2026, 1:54 AM UTC

jazz9k wrote: post #104

llm_nerd wrote: post #80

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He makes solutions for people and they pay him money for doing so. I mean...pretty much exactly how we all operate? He's excellent at networking and has built an enormous connection tree.

This sounds so sketchy and vague. Why do you need to keep defending it, if it's complely legit?

"Defending it"? Sketchy and vague is similarly hilariously pathetic language, and you sound like an absolute creep.

I have zero obligation to detail the work my minor son does to random weird foot-stomping, entitled creeps on HN, and these bizarrely insecure demands by professional failures is...telling.

In this case I assume you're keying off of the other clown who, based upon absolutely nothing (but apparently their own professional failure), is certain it must be "cheating software".

How pathetic. If this is your lot in life, Jesus Christ find a different career. Maybe the trades or something.