Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo
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by rob
4 hours ago
| 9 comments
| support.claude.com
| HN
CosmicShadow
3 hours ago
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Is this one of those, Hey turn off the overcharge protection because you can go $50 into debt for free, and then maybe you'll just keep going and not notice you owe us an extra $500 type of situations?
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Ethee
3 hours ago
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I was worried about this when I turned it on myself, but under the usage panel it shows that it limited my spending to just the $50 and that auto-reload is off, so it doesn't seem this would be the case.
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nezhar
3 hours ago
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There is also an Auto-reload option, I think it is off by default.
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dude250711
2 hours ago
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You guys are putting a lot of trust into vibe-coded software...
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sxg
2 hours ago
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The underreported story is how we over-trust human-coded software.
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falloutx
1 hour ago
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Too true, lets not trust any software.
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smcleod
2 hours ago
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Considering all the problems they've been having with over-charging Claude Code users over the past few weeks it's the very least they could do. Max subscribers are hitting their 5 hour usage limits in 30-40 minutes with a single instance doing light work, while Anthropic have no support or contact mechanism for users that they respond to.
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mercutio2
2 hours ago
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It hadn’t occurred to me this was a billing bug.

That would be heartening, if I wasn’t consuming tokens 10x as fast as expected, and they just had attribution bugs.

Do you have references to this being documented as the actual issue, or is this just speculation?

I want to support Anthropic, but with the Codex desktop app *so much better* than Anthropic’s combined with the old “5 back and forths with Opus and your quota is gone”, it’s hard to see going back

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coffeefirst
2 hours ago
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Wait, if it burns through a $200/mo allotment that fast, what are all these people who “barely wrote code anymore” doing?
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input_sh
2 hours ago
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You hit a vague, never-quite-explained 5h window limit that has nothing to do with what you're doing, but with what every user is doing together. It's totally not downtime, you're just "using it too much" and they're telling you to fuck off until the overall usage slows down.

The order of priority is: everyone using the API (you don't want to calculate the price) → everyone on a $200/month plan → everyone on a $20/month plan → every free user.

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gpm
2 hours ago
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Meanwhile codex is running a free tier for a month right now for anyone who wants to experiment with it: https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/

Doesn't appear to include the new model though, only the state-of-yesterdays-art (literally yesterdays).

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Reagan_Ridley
1 hour ago
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I'll pass on this $50, but please hire real human and fix your crappy app, Claude!

This bug has been for years: in Claude (web or app), if you create a new chat at the middle of existing chat thinking or tool calling, the existing chat will be broken, either losing data, or become unusable.

It's unbelievable Anthropic worth hundreds of billions but can't fix this.

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moffkalast
1 hour ago
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My favorite bug is when I spend 5 minutes writing something and send it, then something breaks and refreshes, deleting the whole thing. Like, thanks, much appreciated, please waste more of my time.
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sobjornstad
48 minutes ago
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Literally every time if I press the "stop" button while it's writing back for the first conversation turn because I notice I forgot something and want to correct it, my prompt is lost.

Anytime I run into a bug like this, part of me wants to go calculate how much of humanity's collective time has been wasted by one company not fixing a trivial bug. It's got to be a lot.

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jimmydoe
1 hour ago
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Yes!! The whole chat part of app is flaky as hell!

Sometimes I think it’s better to just use code tab to chat knowing that’s more reliable.

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bonsai_spool
1 hour ago
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Sometimes you can recover it by refreshing the page where you lost the text.
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nezhar
3 hours ago
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You can use this if you started your Pro or Max subscription before Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT.

Go to https://claude.ai/settings/usage, turn on extra usage and enable the promo from the notification afterwards.

I received €42, top up was not required and auto-reload is off.

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onion2k
3 hours ago
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You started your Pro or Max subscription before Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT.

Ah well. Back to Codex.

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dr_dshiv
2 hours ago
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They are trying to breed more whales
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2001zhaozhao
2 hours ago
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I mean, it's a nice gesture. I use extra usage a little bit when the quota runs out and I'm still in the middle of a task. (Afterwards I switch to other agents that track limits monthly instead of by 5 hour window.) This $50 credits should last a while.
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magospietato
1 hour ago
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Expires after 60 days per the link. In case you're thinking of stretching it out beyond a couple of months.
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jmkni
2 hours ago
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So much cynicism here, I for one am loving Opus and appreciate this
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