Claude Opus 4.7 • Hacker News Board

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by adrian_b » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 6:31 PM UTC

mbeavitt wrote: post #34

Honestly I've been doing a lot of image-related work recently and the biggest thing here for me is the 3x higher resolution images which can be submitted. This is huge for anyone working with graphs, scientific photographs, etc. The accuracy on a simple automated photograph processing pipeline I recently implemented with Opus 4.6 was about 40% which I was surprised at (simple OCR and recognition of basic features). I…

I assume that by "higher resolution images" you mean images with a bigger size in pixels.

I expect that for the model it does not matter which is the actual resolution in pixels per inch or pixels per meter of the images, but the model has limits for the maximum width and the maximum height of images, as expressed in pixels.

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by canarias_mate » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 6:31 PM UTC

LostMyLogin wrote: post #431

avaer wrote: post #297

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Still trying to get a decent pelican out of this one but the new thinking stuff is tripping me up Wouldn't that be p-hacking where p stands for pelican?

Input: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? Output: Walk. It'll take you under a minute, and driving 50 meters barely gets the engine warm — plus you'd just have to park again at the other end. Honestly, by the time you started the car, you'd already be there on foot. --- I asked it to figure out why it made the mistake: "Physical/spatial common sense. Exactly what just happe…

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Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by RogerL » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 6:32 PM UTC

7 trivial prompts, and at 100% limit, using sonnet, not Opus this morning. Basically everyone at our company reporting the same use pattern. Support agent refuses to connect me to a human and terminated the conversation, I can't even get any other support because when I click "get help" (in Claude Desktop) it just takes me back to the agent and that conversation where fin refuses to respond any more.

And then on my personal account I had $150 in credits yesterday. This morning it is at $100, and no, I didn't use my personal account, just $50 gone.

Commenting here because this appears to be the only place that Anthropic responds. Sorry to the bored readers, but this is just terrible service.

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by hayd » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 6:34 PM UTC

motoboi wrote: post #348

cupofjoakim wrote: post #20

> Opus 4.7 uses an updated tokenizer that improves how the model processes text. The tradeoff is that the same input can map to more tokens—roughly 1.0–1.35× depending on the content type. caveman[0] is becoming more relevant by the day. I already enjoy reading its output more than vanilla so suits me well. [0] https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman/tree/main

Caveman hurt model performance. If you need a dumber model with less token output, just use sonnet-4-6 or other non-reasoning model.

Does it? I'm not sure I'd necessarily notice but I haven't found it noticeably worse.

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by sobellian » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 6:36 PM UTC

lanyard-textile wrote: post #200

This comment thread is a good learner for founders; look at how much anguish can be put to bed with just a little honest communication. 1. Oops, we're oversubscribed. 2. Oops, adaptive reasoning landed poorly / we have to do it for capacity reasons. 3. Here's how subscriptions work. Am I really writing this bullet point? As someone with a production application pinned on Opus 4.5, it is extremely difficult to tell ap…

This, plus the alchemical nature of these tools, seems to have made users pretty paranoid (I admit I am also guilty of paranoia). Maybe there's room for a Standard AI - we may change the prices based on market conditions, but we always give you exactly the model you ask for.

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by alexrigler » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 6:37 PM UTC

hmmm 20x Max plan on 2.1.111 `Claude Opus is not available with the Claude Pro plan. If you have updated your subscription plan recently, run /logout and /login for the plan to take effect.`

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by abraxas » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 6:38 PM UTC

I've been working with it for the last couple of hours. I don't see it as a massive change from the behaviours observed with Opus 4.6. It seems to exhibit similar blind spots - very autist like one track mind without considering alternative approaches unless actually prompted. Even then it still seems to limit its lateral thinking around the centre of the distribution of likely paths. In a sense it's like a 1st class mediocrity engine that never tires and rarely executes ideas poorly but never shows any brilliance either.

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by linsomniac » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

"Error: claude-opus-4-6[1m] is temporarily unavailable".

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by gilles_oponono » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 6:40 PM UTC

gghootch wrote: post #270

cupofjoakim wrote: post #20

> Opus 4.7 uses an updated tokenizer that improves how the model processes text. The tradeoff is that the same input can map to more tokens—roughly 1.0–1.35× depending on the content type. caveman[0] is becoming more relevant by the day. I already enjoy reading its output more than vanilla so suits me well. [0] https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman/tree/main

Caveman is fun, but the real tool you want to reduce token usage is headroom https://github.com/gglucass/headroom-desktop (mac app) https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom (cli)

Different positionning - headroom compress inputs and open source project - caveman is output and open source - edgee more corporate offer

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by jerf » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 6:41 PM UTC

recallingmemory wrote: post #519

ayewo wrote: post #463

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like you will need to drink a(n identity) verification can soon [1] to continue as a security researcher on their platform. 1: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-ver... Identity verification on Claude Being responsible with powerful technology starts with knowing who is using it. Identity verification helps us prevent abuse, enforce our usage policies, and comply with legal obligations. W…

I'm surprised we can't just authenticate in other ways.. like a domain TXT record that proves the website I'm looking to audit for security is my own.

AI being what it is, at this point you might be able to ask it for a token to put in a web page at .well-known, put it in as requested, and let it see it, and that might actually just work without it being officially built in.

I suggest that because I know for sure the models can hit the web; I don't know about their ability to do DNS TXT records as I've never tried. If they can then that might also just work, right now.