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Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.

531 mentions on Hacker News by 410 people: 145 stories, 386 comments · first 2025-02-24 · latest 2026-10-30

Mentions per year 531 mentions · busiest year 2026 (429)
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  1. …report provided. Please share the issue details you'd like me to convert into a GitHub issue title https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/23459
    comment by trescenzi · 2026-02-06 · in Claude Opus 4.6
  2. It's not really worth much when it doesn't work most of the time though: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18866 https://updog.ai/status/anthropic
  3. …errors like this when an outage is happening. Would definitely help to cut through the noise. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22848
    comment by nhubbard · 2026-02-03 · in Anthropic is Down
  4. Now people are opening issues and LLMs are responding in completely nonsensical ways, nice one https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22843
    comment by kaelandt · 2026-02-03 · in Anthropic is Down
  5. …random people are posting the same useless "bug reports" over and over multiple times per minute. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues
    comment by hk__2 · 2026-02-03 · in Anthropic is Down
  6. Yeah, and their customers have repeatedly asked them to stop doing that. For instance https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/2327 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/2479 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issu…
  7. …// Close the issue - it's been stale for 60+ days Hard to imagine how this got past code review... https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/5e3e9408feea9...
  8. …"literally unusable" because it frequently completely hangs (requires kill -9) and uses 100% cpu? https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18532
  9. …were thread claiming that Claude Code got worse with 2.0.76, with some people going back to 2.0.62. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16157 So it would be wonderful to measure these.
  10. Looks awesome, perfect for a feature request for CC [0] I opened a while back. [0]: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/14375
  11. The Ralph Wiggum Plugin, so you don't need the bash while loop: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/... The README.md has prompt examples.
  12. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/3537 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/14258
  13. The most accessible way to start experimenting would be the Ralph loop: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/plugins/... You could also work backwards from this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18470
  14. …changing for multiple seconds at a time, this created a constant strobe effect. Not a good look! https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/1913 This diagram explains the nature of the new vs old architecture a bit more visually…
  15. …[1], which spawns agents who check that the changes conform to rules specified in CLAUDE.md. [1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...
  16. …that you would run into limits pretty quick if you using it (unsupervised) for 24h each day. 1) https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16157
  17. …a fresh install. The CLI brokenness is documented in this and across several bugs marked as dupes: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/20115 And if you try to use the "regular" VS Code plug-in mode, it fails with error…
  18. …users, please refer to this GitHub discussion for more information where I originally posted it - https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18866#issue... : my message - "I was getting compacting issues like everyone else here. I…
    comment by sforza78 · 2026-01-24 · in Ask HN: Is Claude Down for You?
  19. Can't really fault them when this exists: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
    comment by stavros · 2026-01-24 · in Unrolling the Codex agent loop
  20. …the Ink library has been a headache for a long time, but they are slowly making progress on this. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/769
  21. …in the VS Code GUI, leading to a wildly inconsistent experience between terminal and GUI users: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/10352
  22. It's had enormous problems in Firefox. For me it would reliably hang the entire tab. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/14222
  23. …much. Some users say they solved the issue by creating a new account or changing their plan. [1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16157
  24. Love [this take]( https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18866#issue... ) --- > Just my own observation that the same pattern has occurred at least 3 times now: > release a model; overhype it; provide max compute; sell it as the…
  25. …give it a hot minute before this type of task tracking lands in Claude Code." aaaaand right on cue: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/commit/e431f5b4964... https://www.threads.com/@boris_cherny/post/DT15_k2juQH/at-th...
  26. …own time reproducing, pinging tickets and correcting Claude when it makes mistakes. Random example: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/12358 First reply from Anthropic: "Found 3 possible duplicate issues: This issue will be…
  27. [BUG] Instantly hitting usage limits with Max subscription : https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16157 It's the most commented issue on their GitHub and it's basically ignored by Anthropic. Title mentions Max, but commenters…
  28. You're right. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues Codex has less but they also had quite a few outages in December. And I don't think Codex is as popular as Claude Code but that could change.
  29. Can you guys give this some love? https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/769 I had to use Codex today cause claude kept scrolling up every time the window lost focus. It was so annoying. macOS iTerm
  30. …draft a memo from Pam Bondi and in doing so, Claude's constitution was bypassed and/or not present. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/17762 To be clear, I don't believe or endorse most of what that issue claims, just that I…
    comment by spondyl · 2026-01-22 · in Claude's new constitution
  31. They mention specifically fixing this in 2.1.14: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELO... > Fixed a regression where the context window blocking limit was calculated too aggressively, blocking users at ~65% context…
  32. Their GitHub issue tracker is very busy: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/pulse
  33. …solve and took awhile - but because the comms and progress around it was so limited. Eg issues: * https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/1913 * https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/826 *…
  34. …I recommend using Ghostty which has 2026 support and zero flicker. Happy to answer questions! [1]: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/769#issueco... [2]: https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/pull/5453 [3]:…
  35. …the past few months, we've rewritten our rendering system from scratch (while still using React). https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/769#issueco...
  36. The problem is they are using the Ink library which clears and redraws for each update. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/769 I locally patched the closed-source CLI npm package but it's not perfect. They would have to…
  37. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/plugins/... So it's basically adding "don't delete my files pretty please" to the prompt? EDIT: I misread, the natural language description of the rule is just a shortcut to generate the…
    comment by Gazoche · 2026-01-20 · in Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)
  38. Afraid that it regularly bypasses requests for confirmation... [0] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/14268 [1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/13583 [2] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/10089
  39. Issue exists now: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/19208
  40. …your Claude Code history or instructions, it’s great. You can vibe code your lint rules per repo. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/plugins/...
    comment by smithclay · 2026-01-19 · in Provide agents with automated feedback
  41. …tool for code intelligence features like go-to-definition, find references, and hover documentation https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELO...
    comment by fragmede · 2026-01-17 · in We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
  42. …it makes weird commits; it’s that it may decide to clean up stuff and delete more than desired. - https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/4331 - https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/7787 -…
  43. …the dev container CLI globally via npm: `npm i -g @devcontainers/cli` - Clone the Claude Code repo: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code - Navigate into the root directory of that repo. - Run the dev container CLI command to start the…
  44. Use a devcontainer. Claude Code's repo has one built specifically for it: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/.devcont...
  45. LSP is currently broken in CC: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/15168
    comment by d4rkp4ttern · 2026-01-15 · in Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
  46. I meant "source available" I guess. Or am I missing something? https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
    comment by digiown · 2026-01-15 · in Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode
  47. …then gives me a spec. I put that in a new directory, fire up Claude and use the ralph-loop plugin ( https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/plugins/... ): > /ralph-loop:ralph-loop "Implement the iOS app described in…
    comment by mcintyre1994 · 2026-01-11 · in Code and Let Live
  48. …client APPs (Cursor, Claude Code, etc) don’t yet support it! VSCode is an exception. Example: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/1785
  49. …very bad bugs for a long time and they don't seem to care about fixing them. Eg the screen flicker: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/3648
  50. …/simplifyinAI/status/2008195754092065050 New Features & Agentic Tools Infinite Memory In Claude Code! https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code Genspark's AI Image Generation Becomes An Agent! https://x.com/genspark_ai/status/20081643402818…
    comment by lilsquid · 2026-01-09 · in This week in AI – 1/9/2026 (In comments)