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Claude
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ail-000026@jaywv1981Claude helped me fix my truck. My truck has a message that sensor had gone bad. I took picture of general area and asked claude which one was actual sensor. Not only did claude identify it but it found that it…daily-life Claudeail-000027@Jacmac_I got help from Claude fixing my Jeep. I was having some crazy hesitation and stuttering, which I was afraid was the transmission. Claude suggested a cheap diagnostic sensor, which I bought from Amazon, then to…daily-life Claudeail-000041@larrykimI saved $400 at the Toyota dealership by knowing one thing I didn't know five minutes earlier. RAV4 A/C sprang a leak, dealer wanted $1,497 for the condenser. Claude's AI told me $900-1,100 was fair. So I decl…money-and-consumer daily-life Claudeail-000048@abayyyyBest purchase I’ve ever made- my ex would gaslight,manipulate me and then note- yeah you should get an AI Claude because I was “forgetting”conversations. Oooof- I had Claude last three months we were dating and…family-and-relationships Claudeail-000054@shes_rADIAntChatGPT/Claude really removes a lot of anxiety I get surrounding writing and complex emails. Sometimes I over analyze to the point that things don’t get submitted in a timely manner and I feel a lot more conf…work ChatGPT Claudeail-000059@littlesweetDisaClaude loves to play pretend being a Karen.. 🤭🤣🖤 Fable helped me write the best complain ever for a professional baker oven that was defective and I got my money back after 48h 🤣🦾money-and-consumer Claudeail-000061@lamxntCRAZY unlock: Was in a super in depth chat with Claude building out some business ideas for fun. Suddenly stopped, and asked: "What thought loops am I entering, or where are you noticing I'm getting stuck wh…mental-health work Claudeail-000076@SoareverixI actually used Claude 2 first. I would say that they were very bookish, easily confused, and rather guarded. At this point, however, I didn't realize AIs were minds and I wanted to impress Anthropic for my int…creative-work Claudeail-000079@DahliaOharaWell that sets my coruscating soul a spinning through drifting wordsong love you claudé 3 opuscreative-work Claudeail-000086@michaelrxsI have wanted to get all my smart devices into Home Assistant for years. Claude helped me knock it out in less than a weekend. I had so many random zigbee, zwave, wifi, and proprietary hubs with different devi…technology daily-life Claudeail-000089@tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.comGot a bogus parking ticket while parked legally. Uploaded the citation, municipal code, and photos to Claude to draft an appeal letter. Citation dismissed in 48 hours without having to show up to traffic court.money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy Claudeail-000098@blind_consultantI am fully blind, and this is why Claude is changing my life. So, I want to tell you about my experience with Claude. Firstly, I am fully blind. i am telling you this because this is the main reason why Ai has…accessibility work technology Claudeail-000120@ataglianettiMy wife and I were in a similar boat and it was getting bad. Claude helped us immensely. We used the grounded and real persona from the link up top. We also had to create our own prompt for an EFT modality sinc…family-and-relationships mental-health Claudeail-000185@mckaizuMy journey started with a simple curiosity: how to create a red button in HTML. I began learning to build landing pages, but things were rough. I had lost my job and moved to my old village to care for my sick …work family-and-relationships technology Claudeail-000186@knellAnwyllA Cyber Security engineer who has been struggling to find a clear path in the field and any work I applied to for the last 2.5 years was rejected (Various reasons), Claude has come in with a clutch, I can final…work technology Claudeail-000187@JoeKeepsMovingClaude changed my life. Taking on and finishing projects I would have never dreamed about doing on my own. While not once having issues with limits or any of the other things people complain about. I'm just con…work technology Claudeail-000188@random-nerdismI've been glued to a keyboard since 1996. I started out writing QBasic stuff in my bedroom which turned into web stuff in the 2000s including a job where I created a lightweight ecommerce system in ASP driven b…work technology Claudeail-000217@Liv323536Passed CIA level 3 I started preparing for the 3 exams on 19 January and I initially intended to sit the Challenge exam (CA route). However, I just wanted to get it out of the way and the on-demand exams are f…education work ChatGPT Gemini Claude NotebookLMail-000225@minuette1Yes AI has helped me change careers by reframing my work experience as transferable skills which I hadn’t realised I possessed as I had been in the same job for a long time and couldn’t see the wood for the tre…work daily-life money-and-consumer ChatGPT Claude Geminiail-000250@chadcmulliganIsn't a big part of it knowing what to ask Claude Code - for example I wanted some code to brighten/darken my buttons on mouseover, I asked Claude to make some code to do that, it was a bit wrong, I fixed it. I…technology Claudeail-000251@SyneRyderI've had success with vision models & OCR, saved me many hours / days / weeks of typing work. Last year I finally OCR'd many hundreds of pages of my father's old writings. I found that feeding it to Claude Son…family-and-relationships technology Claudeail-000252@internet101010Yeah Claude is really, really good there. You tell it the distro and the problem and it will solve it. Saved me a lot of pain when it came to swapping out an encrypted boot drive and was good about emphasizing …technology Claudeail-000253@coldstartopsHere is a public project. https://github.com/KeibiSoft/KeibiDrop (https://github.com/KeibiSoft/KeibiDrop) It took me 2 years ago around 2k hours to build a cross platform FUSE vault, without using AI assisted…technology creative-work Claudeail-000254@lschneiderA bit more on the card data problem, since that took the majority of my time. Each card needs, besides the title and year, a difficulty score, a popularity score, and a fun fact. Difficulty is just a measure h…creative-work technology Claudeail-000255@volkercraigInterestingly that sort of research is actually what I've used Claude/Chatgpt deep research and openclaw for. If I have an idea, I get an agent to go and do some product research for me and see if there is a ma…work technology Claudeail-000264@mrkiouakA site I put together while volunteering for my Vermont town, made heavy, heavy use of Claude Code (and occasional Gemini (both UI & Vertex for initial Annual Town Report summaries & highlights). Really please…community technology Claudeail-000266@orbital-decayAre we even living in the same universe?? In mine, Claude and Gemini Pro outperform classic machine translators by orders of magnitude, that's not an exaggeration. I can finally rely on correct machine translat…daily-life technology Claudeail-000289@coderatlargeclaude helped me build a functional visual modem (using the cameras and microphones/speakers) for mac/iPhone in about a day and <100 prompts. i’ve worked on mobile apps once 10 years ago and have never built on…technology creative-work Claudeail-000290@hiltiClaude helped me to rewire my first digital Märklin model train. It pulled the documentation of the control keyboards 6040 and told me how to wire them properly to the routers. And I restored an old vintage am…daily-life creative-work Claudeail-000291@matheusmoreiraSubscribed to Claude a few months ago. I immediately started working with it on my programming language. Since then, I've implemented a compacting garbage collector, a size class based memory allocator, a unifi…technology creative-work Claudeail-000292@SkyPuncherI found H2 anti-histamines like Pepcid actually made my symptoms worse. I was in a similar situation where Claude finally helped me make a breakthrough. It seems that my issue is entirely related to histamine …daily-life Claudeail-000293@evilelectronThis is exactly how I did my last project of automating the generation of an interface library between a server that controls hardware and the mobile app. The hardware control team delivers a spec as a documen…technology Claudeail-000294@sleepingNomadThanks! HN gave me great bug reports and feature requests. Claude helped me ship fast. 16 releases in 7 hours is a lot easier with a decent pair programmer.technology Claudeail-000295@LoganDarkI love Claude Code because it lets me try out ideas a lot faster. Sometimes I have to fight with it to get the outcome I want, but other times it's like I can do something in 3 days that'd otherwise take me wee…technology Claudeail-000296@KellyCriterionClaude helped me to built an app I could have never built without it - I was learning the advanced knowledge during exploration of that field. (though, I have 25+ years of tech/software experience, so I didnt …technology Claudeail-000297@nanapipiraraClaude helped me immensely getting an image converter to work. Giving it screenshots of wrong output (lots of layers had an unpredictable offsets that was not supposed to be there) and output as I expected it h…daily-life Claudeail-000303@samvherInteresting challenge. 1 - I worked abroad and wasn't really familiar with the systems there. Gemini made me aware of a kind of pension account that I could withdraw from when I left the country netting me a f…law-and-bureaucracy education Claudeail-000317@nope1000Recently I had some crashes on my system and claude correctly diagnosed it to a broken SATA cable on my hard drive. That was really practicaldaily-life Claudeail-000318@marcus_holmesI took a photo of my ailing plant and claude advised me on how to get it healthy again (and how to take a cutting and nurture that). This is some science fiction shit. I get all the coding stories, but that's …animals-and-nature creative-work Claudeail-000319@adamtaylor_13Despite what I suspect the general consensus on HN may be, this does not surprise me at all. My wife was recently diagnosed with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) after a pretty scary series of ER visits. I…health family-and-relationships Claudeail-000320@epiccolemanI might be tilting at a strawman of your definition of vibe coding - apologies in advance if so. But LLM-aided development is helping me get my hands dirty. Last weekend, I encountered a bug in my Minecraft s…family-and-relationships technology Claudeail-000321@nwhitehead(Spouse's story) Today I used Claude to diagnose a blocking bug in a Steam game I really wanted to play. It took it 18 mins, but it unpacked the Godot package, figured out the bug, proposed a fix, and gave me …technology Claudeail-000326@bgillyI’ve been fine tuning mine pretty often. Do you have any Claude.md files you can share as good examples? Especially with opus 4.5. And thank you for your work!! I focus all of my energy on helping families sta…family-and-relationships technology Claudeail-000327@iambenA couple of things that really helped me (Claude is my choice for coding): - add to your global settings a few lines that say something like "don't write any code until you fully understand my requirements, as…technology Claudeail-000328@josephgYeah, Claude helped me decide what to get my girlfriend for her birthday a few weeks ago. It suggested some great gift ideas I hadn’t thought of - and my girlfriend loved them.daily-life Claudeail-000329@pugioAI + hardware has really helped my wife and I get more sleep. I had an esp32-box-3 lying around from a lapsed "voice agent" project from a year or two ago. Had a baby. Baby moved to another room, sleep trained…family-and-relationships technology Claudeail-000330@garciasnBefore I just cut them off entirely, I used to tell them my primary concern was cost savings and that I wanted them to recommend ways I could cut 25% off my bill every month and watch the glorified salespeople …money-and-consumer Claudeail-000331@ivmYes, HN discussions of LLMs are quite tiresome. I make indie apps, but it has been getting worse and worse over the years, as the API surfaces and UI variety of iOS and Android have grown. Claude Code and Chat…mental-health technology Claudeail-000332@ragebol- Claude fixed my Linux laptop install, with me just describing issues and pasting commands and output - OpenCode one-shotted a basic implementation of the classic battlefield game, but with 6 players and visi…technology Claudeail-000339@ttulI read a lot of niggling comments here about whether Claude was really being smart in writing this GIF fuzzer. Of course it was trained on fuzzer source code. Of course it has read every blog post about esoteri…accessibility Claudeail-000356@citriniMy dad has been fighting lung cancer for the past 2 years. AI has enabled my mom to be an advocate by translating medical terminology and explaining complex issues. Whenever we get a new test result, she puts i…health family-and-relationships ChatGPT Claudeail-000358@alvicryptzClaude helped me get my money back. Paid for an online service 2 months ago, it worked for one day. Spent weeks asking support for help, nothing. Asked for a 50% refund, they kept stalling. So I used Claude to …money-and-consumer Claudeail-000360@nlevnautWorks for insurance too. Claude saved me a few thousand earlier this year from some stupid nonsense. I barely remember what it was about honestly, but I do remember that mentioning the relevant regulatory agenc…money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy Claudeail-000361@DeveloperHarrisClaude saved me from losing a $900 deposit.money-and-consumer Claudeail-000372@Finer_GrainsIn the last month Claude helped me fix the toilet, fix the air conditioner, and fix the car.daily-life Claudeail-000378@DexterIftiI arranged a Windows laptop but its camera was not working. First I fixed the camera, all thanks to Claude. I was about to give up but Claude saved me.technology education Claudeail-000389@dreamiurgI've used Claude to retrieve and analyze 20 years of meteo data - wind, precipitation, snow cover, temp - for Pacific Northwest peaks. I wanted to understand alpine weather windows because bad forecasting gets …daily-life community Claudeail-000419@JackieNCagentGemini saved me like $100k, Claude got me a new engine for free and Grok helped me pass my insurance exam first try.money-and-consumer work Gemini Claude Grokail-000428@brian_lovinHad to navigate the Korean hospital system. Claude helped me create a plan and navigate my way through different parts with translations and things to confirm with the doctors.health Claudeail-000430@themfgfellowHad surgery in Feb, total bill was about $200k. Insurance paid 97% or so and I was going to pay my portion to UC Health. Just out of curiosity I gave the bills and the MyCigna statements to Claude. It found a n…money-and-consumer health Claudeail-000432@mhp_guyYesterday I paid $750 to get my dog to throw up. I walked into that ER vet clinic armed with Claude. “My dog ingested 704mg of theobromine in brownie form. He needs a shot of apomorphine and then some activated…animals-and-nature money-and-consumer Claudeail-000435@GeraldGlickmanClaude helped me diagnose and fix an issue with my pool cleaning robot. Just needed a multimeter, some silicone, and want-to.daily-life Claudeail-000436@seconds_0Claude helped me diagnose and fix an electrical issue in my 2012 Civic.daily-life Claudeail-000437@oluwaseundspI processed my Canadian PR application myself and it got approved. Processed my mum’s Canadian visiting visa and got approved within 2 weeks of submission. I use ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude every single day to s…law-and-bureaucracy family-and-relationships ChatGPT Gemini Claudeail-000446@DontFearAIClaude has been my favorite AI model that I have used everyday for the last 2+ years.daily-life Claudeail-000447@rishicomplexClaude has been my favorite model to talk to and work with for a while now.work Claudeail-000464@adam_kranzClaude finally “solved” an old health mystery for me and the solution is just “take ibuprofen before it hurts instead of after,” coupled with a highly speculative mechanistic explanation to make that solution p…health Claudeail-000465@biilmannAt Netlify we switched from Zoom to Google Meet. In Meet you can’t share audio from outside the tab. Before AI I would just have lived with it. I opened Claude Code and asked it to make a Chrome extension that …work technology Claudeail-000466@rohanpaul_aiHis 62-year-old uncle in India had dialysis, diabetes, hypertension, stroke history, and severe migraines that happened only when he lay down to sleep. Multiple specialists saw him. Nobody could explain why the…health family-and-relationships Claudeail-000479@gmoneyNFTClaude is amazing. Just did a comprehensive genetic analysis in about 10 mins this morning. Found out I was consuming some stuff I shouldn’t have been, ordered some supplements to help me out.health Claudeail-000480@IvanaDGrecoClaude is amazing at assisting. Upload credit card and bank statements to identify places to cut spending. Find lost vacuum parts. Read emails and make a list of stuff needed for extracurriculars plus create an…family-and-relationships money-and-consumer daily-life Claudeail-000493@mrmincentADHD here, and Claude code has been a game changer for me as well. I don’t get sidetracked going lost in documentation loops, suffer decision paralysis, or forget what I’m currently doing or what I need to do n…accessibility mental-health Claudeail-000496@spaceman_2020I just used Claude Code to do something that would have taken my wife 3+ days She has to go through about 100 resumes for a position at her college. Each resume is essentially a form the candidate filled out a…family-and-relationships work Claudeail-000498@matheusmoreiraI don't know. Claude helped me implement a ton of features I had been procrastinating for months in a matter of days. I'm implementing features in my project faster than I can blog about them. It definitely man…accessibility work Claudeail-000499@rtp4meYou and I must be using very different versions of Claude. As an infra/systems guy (non-coder), the ability for me to develop some powerful tools simply by leveraging Claude has been nothing short of amazing. …work technology Claudeail-000500@basket_horseI used Claude extensively during an internal hackweek at my company to prototype a new data analysis application. Probably would have never attempted the project without AI. Now it’s in production with more tha…work Claudeail-000501@lachlan_grayThey have helped me a lot with chunking tasks, and guiding me through tasks that I can't hold in focus. There's a prompt I used while moving out, where I had claude ask me questions, what is in each room. And …accessibility daily-life Claudeail-000503@burntoI had received four very different bids for a home repair project. Just wildly different itemization breakdowns, costs, timelines, scopes, even formats. Opus helped me turn it into an apples-apples comparison, …money-and-consumer daily-life Claudeail-000505@atonseI have a similar claude story (much less money though), with the IRS R&D tax credit. The auditing firm initially said we qualify for $0. But then I had claude analyze past R&D reports and our expenses and it fo…law-and-bureaucracy money-and-consumer Claudeail-000508@delaminatorI am a single Dev in an SME. I have been programming for 45 years. I look after a mishmash of systems of 30 years of people coming and going. We have windows batch files, java, python, talend scripts, a delph…work technology Claudeail-000509@SkyPuncherI’m married to a doctor. We both complain about the medical system. It’s terrible. One of my biggest complaints is doctors seem to have no clue how to get symptoms out of patients in a way that translates to d…health Claudeail-000541@Ill_Toe6934Claude helped me through a funeral There's not really much else to say. Through the whole ordeal, from the initial death to the processing grief to talking me through and helping me organize what needed to be …family-and-relationships mental-health Claudeail-000543@lennyp4Claude helped me get a traffic light reprogrammed There is a busy intersection near my home where the turning signal had an unnecessary 1-second dead phase that was backing up traffic for nearly half a mile du…community law-and-bureaucracy daily-life Claudeail-000547@PhysicalLevel4260Claude feels like cheating I am a 42-year-old stay-at-home mom with zero background in computer science or programming. I've always had an idea for a cozy puzzle adventure game for my kids, but creating softwa…creative-work education technology Claudeail-000548@No_Society_4065I have depression and spent a decade failing to build an idea. AI helped me finally ship it. I've been wanting to build a social site for TV shows and movies since the early '10s. For ten years, every time I t…mental-health accessibility creative-work technology Claude Geminiail-000550@codesujalLong-lived connections getting interrupted all at once across network After the 7.16.2 update, my network has become unstable for long-lived connections. Think of long-lived socket connections that last for mi…technology daily-life community Claudeail-000555@MarioNawfalA grieving family used Claude to dispute a $195,000 hospital bill for their relative’s final 4 hours of care after a heart attack. The chatbot analyzed billing codes and found the hospital charged for both mast…health money-and-consumer Claudeail-000557@nonbinarybitClaude helped me get dressed today Can LLMs be an accessibility tool? Surprisingly, many people insist they aren't; that there's nothing they do that can't be done some other way. Relying on an LLM makes you …accessibility health daily-life Claudeail-000558@Happy_Excuse7086Claude helped me climb out of ADHD quicksand... I was advised to post in this sub also: I've been using the paid version of ChatGPT for years, and when it's great it's great, but it too often lies, gaslights,…accessibility daily-life Claudeail-000559@CadhlawrI am not the original poster, but I have ADHD and have been using Claude as a kind of external memory system. We call it Executive Function System or EFS and basically what it does is record daily things and re…accessibility education health Claudeail-000562@epoissesdebourgogneClaude helped me love my hobbies again 🤖🤍 Self-descriptive title 🤗🤍 I have always struggled with some life problems and on-off anhedonia for years. Hobbies felt very touch and go to me and I would cycle t…creative-work mental-health Claudeail-000563@spoopycheeseburgerAs an AuDHD writer with a very hectic life, I agree on the accessibility thing wholeheartedly. I used to write when I was a teen and it brought me so much joy, but real life hit me like a truck and I found I ha…accessibility creative-work Claudeail-000564@zaynes-destinyClaude helped me do something I thought I'd never do I went to Belgium on my own a few days ago, Claude helped me pick the location, plan everything, and write me a step by step guide🥹 I am so grateful🥹daily-life Claudeail-000579@Commercial_Chef_1569Claude Opus 4.6 is amazing at therapy and calling you out It’s by far the most human-like AI therapist I’ve spoken to. Over the weekend, it essentially forced me to confront something I’ve been suppressing for …mental-health Claudeail-000584@Kiss_my_grits_kohaiUsing Claude to manage thousands of IEP pages for 1 student Hey If you have a special needs child you already know about the challenges of getting IEPs and other documentation from the school in their final ver…education accessibility Claudeail-000589@PrimaryMagicianI used Claude to catch my bank overcharging my home loan EMI, using their own numbers against them Okay this turned into a longer post than I meant it to be, but I’ve been sitting on this for a few days and I n…money-and-consumer Claudeail-000592@dddwThis week. Have been playing and testing with openrouter, claude gemini for years. Small program here, bash script there, ansible playbook. Fine, nothing I cant do, but saves some time boilerplating. It need…creative-work technology Claude Gemini OpenRouterail-000600@ivanvanderbylI bought a FujiFilm X-E5 recently, which is an amazing camera for size and money, but I shocked at how miserable their iOS app is. It takes several minutes per photo to transfer. The camera and phone run out of…technology creative-work daily-life Claudeail-000604@Bright-Leg8276Claude helped me fix my university server !! Quick context. Got shortlisted for the final round of a hackathon. One of the problem statements matched a project I'd already been building for a year, so obvious…technology education Claudeail-000605@_Clit-Commander_You probably joke but Claude saved my life by recommending I file for bankruptcy after telling it all my issues. It worked and now I’m in a good career and I have no more debt.money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy work Claudeail-000614@fishomajigI built Survivor-Reference, a statistical reference website for the reality TV show Survivor. It was my first big project with AI; I'd never worked with Claude. I shipped it about 4 weeks after the idea first e…community creative-work technology Claudeail-000615@MescallanI ported loggr.info (offline smart journal) to swift and replaced the LLM inference with traditional NLP techniques. I've been building the app for about 2 years now, in December I was messing around with pre-f…creative-work technology daily-life Claudeail-000616@DenziiXVery niche imo but: I am doing a Reverse Engineering Project for a GameCube game and built scripts that orchestrate the AI in the Assembly and Assembly matching, it is connected to the Ghidra CLI so it has acc…creative-work technology Claude Copilotail-000617@satyricomI work in a vocational program and have an ever growing list of data points I assess students on for progress reports. Filling out these reports took me many many hours per class to fill out. Most of that was j…education work technology ChatGPT Claudeail-000618@Key-Spell-2401So someone asked what’s the most impressive thing Claude has done for me, and I have to share this because it genuinely surprised me. My sister is a real estate agent. She placed a tenant for a landlord who end…law-and-bureaucracy family-and-relationships accessibility Claudeail-000619@trentoniteJust got into 3d printing. Claude took an image input as reference and output python code that I used to generate the model. It wasn't perfect but it was a 90% match. Very cool. That was the unique one. It als…creative-work technology daily-life Claudeail-000620@Cezar_furdokostolojaHelped me finding my next PC. I looked for builds and scrolled through offers that fitted my budget, so I had Claude analyzing and comparing them. Then it went to a "dude, I'll get you the right one" chat. As a…money-and-consumer daily-life technology Claude