Identity verification on Claude leads the front page

Category: Pulse
Status: discussion
Sources: HN
Summary: The Claude identity-verification support article was the day's top thread (586 points). See the Top stories item for the verified detail; the thread itself adds practitioner signal.
Comments: Commenters compared the policy to OpenAI's verification, reporting that a failed OpenAI check can permanently lock an account out of top models with no retry, and cited China's 2023 real-name requirement for generative AI as a precedent for two-tier access. Several said the trend pushes them toward local models.