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Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by throwaway27448 » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

throw4847285 wrote: post #171

guzfip wrote: post #152

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> Why does it sound like you're on drugs, specifically cocaine? This has basically been what all of Silicon Valley sounds like to me for a few years now. They are known for abusing many psycho-stimulants out there. The stupid “manifesto” Marc Andreessen put out a while back sounded like adderall-produced drivel more than a coherent political manifesto.

If I were to go off into the woods, take a lot of drugs, and write my own crank manifesto, the central conceit would be that ADHD is the key to understanding the entirety of Silicon Valley. A bunch of people with stimulus driven brains creating technologies that feed themselves and the rest of the populace more and more stimulation, setting a new baseline and requiring new technologies for higher levels of stimulatio…

No, you're right. But a million monkeys on cocaine may eventually provide value to shareholders.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by Goronmon » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

kristjansson wrote: post #153

Goronmon wrote: post #116

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...pay for API tokens and adjust your use of CC so that the actions you have it take are worth the cost of the tokens Do you feel there is enough visibility and stability around the "Prompt -> API token usage" connection to make a reliable estimate as to what using the API may end up costing? Personally, it feels like paying for Netflix based on "data usage" without having anyway for me to know ahead of time how much…

Time is a relatively good proxy for spend. There are also more ex post diagnostics like count and cost it can write to the status line. I agree that ex ante it’s tough, and they could benefit from some mode of estimation. Perhaps we can give tasks sizes, like T shirts? Or a group of claudes can spend the first 1M tokens assigning point values to the prospective tasks?

Even time doesn't feel like it would provide consistent information.

Take the response on another post about Claude Code.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664442

This reads like even if you had a rough idea today about what usage might look like, a change deployed tomorrow could have a major impact on usage. And you wouldn't know it until after you were already using it.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by mikkupikku » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

I really don't understand the way Claude does rate limiting, particularly the 5 hour limit. I can get on at 11:30, blow through my limit doing some stupid shit like processing a pile of books into my llm-wiki, and then get notified that I've used 90% of my 5 hour session limit and I have to wait for noon (aka wait 10 minutes) for the five hour limit to reset. Baffling.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by rattlesnakedave » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:28 PM UTC

ericmcer wrote: post #165

echelon wrote: post #132

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> I get it. LLMs are cool technology. I don't think many of you have legitimately tried Claude Code, or maybe you're holding it wrong. I'm getting 10x the work done. I'm operating at all layers of the stack with a speed and rapidity I've never had before. And before anyone accuses me of being some "vibe coder", I've built five nines active-active money rails that move billions of dollars a day at 50kqps+, amongst lot…

I mean at this point can we just conclude that there are a group of engineers who claim to have incredible success with it and a group that claim it is unreliable and cannot be trusted to do complex tasks. I struggle to believe that a ton of seemingly intelligent software engineers are too dumb to figure out how to use Claude code to get reliable results, it seems much more likely to me that it can do well at isolate…

“I struggle to believe that a ton of seemingly intelligent software engineers are too dumb to figure out how to use Claude code to get reliable results”

Seemingly is doing the heavy lifting here. If you read enough comment threads on HN, it will become obvious why they aren’t getting results.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by britzkopf » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:28 PM UTC

echelon wrote: post #132

rurp wrote: post #90

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HN is a big community that has always had a mix of people who value newness as a feature vs those who prioritize simplicity and reliability. Unless you're recognizing the exact same names taking these contradictory opinions it's probably different groups of people for the most part. It seems like every LLM thread for the past couple years is full of posts saying that the latest hot AI tool/approach has made them unbe…

> I get it. LLMs are cool technology. I don't think many of you have legitimately tried Claude Code, or maybe you're holding it wrong. I'm getting 10x the work done. I'm operating at all layers of the stack with a speed and rapidity I've never had before. And before anyone accuses me of being some "vibe coder", I've built five nines active-active money rails that move billions of dollars a day at 50kqps+, amongst lot…

> And before anyone accuses me of being some "vibe coder", I've built five nines active-active money rails that move billions of dollars a day at 50kqps+, amongst lots of other hard hitting platform engineering work. Serious senior engineering for over a decade

You sound like a pro wrestler. I'd like to know what "hard-hitting" engineering work is. Hydraulic hammers?

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by SkyPuncher » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:29 PM UTC

My biggest frustration right now is the seeming complete loss of background agent functionality. Permissions seem completely botched for background agents right now. When that happens, the foreground agent just takes over the task despite:

1. Me not wanting that for context management reasons

2. It burning tokens on an expensive model.

Literally a conversation that I just had:

* ME: "Have sonnet background agent do X"

* Opus: "Agent failed, I'll do it myself"

* Me: "No, have a background agent do it"

* Opus: Proceeds to do it in the foreground

* Flips keyboard

This has completely broken my workflows. I'm stuck waiting for Opus to monitor a basic task and destroy my context.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by dandellion » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:29 PM UTC

echelon wrote: post #132

rurp wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is a big community that has always had a mix of people who value newness as a feature vs those who prioritize simplicity and reliability. Unless you're recognizing the exact same names taking these contradictory opinions it's probably different groups of people for the most part. It seems like every LLM thread for the past couple years is full of posts saying that the latest hot AI tool/approach has made them unbe…

> I get it. LLMs are cool technology. I don't think many of you have legitimately tried Claude Code, or maybe you're holding it wrong. I'm getting 10x the work done. I'm operating at all layers of the stack with a speed and rapidity I've never had before. And before anyone accuses me of being some "vibe coder", I've built five nines active-active money rails that move billions of dollars a day at 50kqps+, amongst lot…

You must be using it wrong, because I'm getting 100x the work done and currently at 1.5 million MRR with this SAAS I vibe coded over the weekend.

After I solved entrepreneurship I decided to retire and I now spend my days reading HN, posting on topics about AI.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by cbg0 » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC

throw4847285 wrote: post #143

michael_j_x wrote: post #110

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I really enjoy coding. I've build a number of projects, personal and professional, with Python, Rust, Java and even some Scala in the mix. However, I've been addicted to Claude Code recently, especially with the superpowers skill. It feels like I can manifest code with my mind. When developing with Claude, I am presented with design dilemmas, architectural alternatives, clarification questions, things that really mak…

"Addicted" "Superpowers" "manifest with my mind" "it feels amazing" Why does it sound like you're on drugs? I know that sounds extremely rude, but I can't think of any other reasonable comparison for that language. It's hard to take these kinds of endorsements seriously when they're written so hyperbolically, in terms of the same cliches, and focused on entirely on how it makes you feel rather than what it does.

Reading a bunch of posts related to Claude Code and some folks voice genuine upset about rate limits and model intelligence while others seem very upset they can't get their fix because they've reached the five hours limits is genuinely concerning to how addictive LLMs can be for some folks.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by wongarsu » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #146

echelon wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I get it. LLMs are cool technology. I don't think many of you have legitimately tried Claude Code, or maybe you're holding it wrong. I'm getting 10x the work done. I'm operating at all layers of the stack with a speed and rapidity I've never had before. And before anyone accuses me of being some "vibe coder", I've built five nines active-active money rails that move billions of dollars a day at 50kqps+, amongst lot…

> and I have to consume it in the way that it's presented I'm just curious, why do you "have to"? Don't get me wrong, I'm making the same choice myself too, realizing a bunch of global drawbacks because of my local/personal preference, but I won't claim I have to, it's a choice I'm making because I'm lazy.

What are the reasonable options besides a Claude Code subscription (or an equivalent from Codex or Copilot)?

I could pay API prices for the same models, but aside from paying much more for the same result that doesn't seem helpful

I could pay a 4-5 figure sum for hardware to run a far inferior open model

I could pay a six figure sum for hardware to run an open model that's only a couple months behind in capability (or a 4-5 figure sum to run the same model at a snail's pace)

I could pay API costs to semi-trustworthy inference provider to run one of those open models

None of those seem like great alternatives. If I want cutting-edge coding performance then a subscription is the most reasonable option

Note that this applies mostly to coding. For many other tasks local models or paid inference on open models is very reasonable. But for coding that last bit of performance matters

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by throwaway27448 » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC

827a wrote: post #84

mvkel wrote: post #8

Mounting evidence that claude max users are put into one big compute fuel pool. Demand increased dramatically with OpenAI's DoD PR snafu (even though Anth was already working with the DoD? But I digress...). The pool hit a ceiling. Anth has no compute left to give. Hence people maxing out after 1 query. "Working on it" means finding a way to distill Claude Code that isn't enough of a quality degradation to be noticed…

Alternatively, the elephant in the room I'm surprised no one wants to talk about: the vibe coding is catching up with them.

It should catch up faster. It's absolutely useless for the bulk of the tedium—notably, soldering together random repos to satisfy executives—that makes up my job now.