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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. There's an interesting analysis here: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796 >The most striking row is user prompts: 5,608 in February vs 5,701 in March. The human put in the same effort. But the model consumed 80x more API…
    comment by jessermejia · 2026-04-18 · in Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
  2. …people to arrive at that conclusion. [0] eg. [1] and many, many other examples [1] < https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/39201 > [2] Your failure to notice that subtlety makes me wonder how often you use LLMs to summarize…
  3. …aesthetics. NEVER converge on common choices (Space Grotesk, for example) across generations. [1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...
    comment by htrp · 2026-04-17 · in Claude Design
  4. Hasn't happened to me, either, but this GitHub comment is reporting similar observations: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796#issue...
    comment by codethief · 2026-04-17 · in Claude Opus 4.7
  5. …did actually get dumber. The Director of AI at AMD logged a pretty detailed issue with receipts: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796
    comment by Gareth321 · 2026-04-17 · in Claude Opus 4.7
  6. …But, I've more than proven my point, so I'll leave the small pile of evidence at this. [0] < https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/39201 > [1] ...both LLM and "harness" (or whatever Anthropic would call things like Claude…
  7. …in your settings.json [1] You have to pass `--thinking-display summarized` flag explicitly. [1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/49268
    comment by gck1 · 2026-04-16 · in Claude Opus 4.7
  8. …and hacks around trying to retain Thinking output in Claude Code (prior to this release): https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8477
    comment by accrual · 2026-04-16 · in Claude Opus 4.7
  9. You mean Anthropic are the only ones refusing the de-facto standard despite a long-standing issue: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235 And as others have said, it's a one-line fix. "Skills" etc. are another `ln -s`
    comment by troupo · 2026-04-16 · in Claude Opus 4.7
  10. As the author of the now (in)famous report in https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796 issue (sorry stella :) all I can say is... sigh. Reading through the changelog felt as if they codified every bad experiment they ran that…
    comment by noxa · 2026-04-16 · in Claude Opus 4.7
  11. …we can't paste the token as well, and now, it starts to smell fishy, they likely did it on purpose. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/47887
    comment by pixel_popping · 2026-04-15 · in Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code
  12. ▲ 1
    Claude Code: Widespread abnormal usage limit drain across all paid tiers
    story by tamogotchi · 2026-04-15 · 0 comments
  13. ▲ 2
    Feature Request: Support Agents.md. #6235
    story by gz09 · 2026-04-15 · 0 comments
  14. ▲ 1
    Ask HN: At ~165k tokens, does Opus 4.6 1M outperform Opus 4.6 200k?
    story by consumer451 · 2026-04-14 · 0 comments
  15. …[1] https://research.trychroma.com/context-rot [2] https://claude.com/blog/1m-context-ga [3] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/35545 [4] https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/claude-code-1m-context-wind... [5]…
    comment by consumer451 · 2026-04-14 · in Claude Code Routines
  16. …is basically a fast takeoff in miniature. I like to just check the release notes from time to time: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases and the equally frenetic openclaw: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases GPT-4.1…
    comment by jcims · 2026-04-14 · in Claude Code Routines
  17. How does this deal with stop hooks? Can it run https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...
    comment by theodorewiles · 2026-04-14 · in Claude Code Routines
  18. ▲ 4
    Claude Code hitting ~50% usage after 1–2 prompts (Pro user)
    story by kundi · 2026-04-14 · 0 comments
  19. It appears that there is an ongoing Github issue about it: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/47887 It's a regression from Claude Code team, you must downgrade your version now to login `npm install -g…
    comment by pixel_popping · 2026-04-14 · in Claude Code OAuth down for >12 hours
  20. ▲ 1
    Claude Code's OAuth Flow Broken When Pasting
    story by rynn · 2026-04-14 · 1 comment
  21. ▲ 4
    Quantified evidence: Sonnet 4.6 quality regression
    story by ctack · 2026-04-14 · 4 comments
  22. a git status + "recent commits" (that will _always_ change) https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/47107 and a missing cache-mark that will make skills & project-claude.md cachemiss every time too…
  23. you should check with people working on Claude Code, cache has been udpated to 5min ... https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/46829#issue... So yeah, 1M window that expires every 5min .... not good
  24. ▲ 3
    Tell HN: Claude-code prompt-cache fix
    story by g4cg54g54 · 2026-04-13 · 1 comment
  25. …In case anyone is looking for it, the fix is "bind-key -T root S-Enter send-keys C-j" borrowed from https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6072 .
    comment by imankulov · 2026-04-13 · in Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
  26. ▲ 7
    Claude Code – Disabling telemetry also disables 1-hour prompt cache TTL
    story by dsr12 · 2026-04-13 · 0 comments
  27. It's all there, including the specific version regression, unearthed bugs, workarounds: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/45756
  28. …reports with hard data, and confirmed by the Claude Code team member. Issue with the confirmation: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/45756 Looks like you have an axe to grind and facts be damned? :D
  29. …7,000 sessions puts precise numbers on how Anthropic’s coding tool has degraded since early March. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796
  30. ▲ 2
    CC v2.1.100 inflates cache_creation by ~20K tokens vs. v2.1.98
    story by tamnd · 2026-04-13 · 0 comments
  31. …as not planned" issue in GitHub that confirms that it has been moved to 5 minutes since March: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/46829 . I started seeing the massive degradation exactly on the 23rd of March, hence after a…
  32. ▲ 2
    Tell HN: Claude-code prompt-cache workaround/fix
    story by g4cg54g54 · 2026-04-13 · 0 comments
  33. currently "clear makes it worse" https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/47098 + https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/47107 launching with `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_GIT_INSTRUCTIONS=1 claude "Hello"` till those are fixed…
  34. …selectively labeling the issues as "acknowledged" (suggested in one of the now auto-closed issues https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/21732 ), and preventing them from auto-close. Not all auto-closed issues are slop. A human…
  35. Opus[1m] has heen the default model for max subscriptions since 2.1.75. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/commit/48b1c6c0ba0...
  36. …minutes from 1 hour? I think this may be the biggest concern for people building tools on the API: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/46829 I would argue that KV caching is a net gain for Ant and a well-maintained cache is…
  37. Anthropic responded: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/46829#issue...
  38. Sure, I really appreciate you looking at this. a6edd0d1-a9ed-4545-b237-cff00f5be090 / https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/47027 I'm happy to provide any other info that can be useful (as long as i'm not sharing any information…
  39. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/46829#issue... - Have you checked with your colleague? (and his AI, of course)
  40. …pointing out the actual root cause of the issue has been 'Closed as not planned' by Anthropic. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/46829
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    Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
    story by cmaster11 · 2026-04-12 · 660 comments
  42. Maybe they should fix bugs like this then https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/17979#issue... ...
    comment by olejorgenb · 2026-04-12 · in Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
  43. It's not just you, there is a github issue for it: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796
    comment by babaganoosh89 · 2026-04-12 · in Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
  44. There's a github issue for this: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796
    comment by babaganoosh89 · 2026-04-12 · in Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
  45. ▲ 552
    Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
    story by lsdmtme · 2026-04-12 · 420 comments
  46. ▲ 3
    Claude Code: all issues get auto-closed without review?
    story by marcindulak · 2026-04-11 · 4 comments
  47. ▲ 1
    Bring Back Buddy
    story by agiacalone · 2026-04-11 · 1 comment
  48. ▲ 3
    Bring Back Buddy – A Consolidated Plea from the [Claude Code] Community
    story by rickcarlino · 2026-04-10 · 0 comments
  49. …with the current claude-code instead of making hyperbolic claims about their new whizbang model. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues
  50. …on January 8 2026, no response)... Claude Code Exploit: Claude Code Becomes an Unwitting Executor https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/45951