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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

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  1. 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
  2. …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
  3. 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…
    comment by flowerthoughts · 2026-02-02 · in Claude Code's renderer is more complex than a game engine
  4. …// 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...
    comment by assbuttbuttass · 2026-01-31 · in Claude Code's GitHub page auto closes issues after 60 days
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    Claude Code's GitHub page auto closes issues after 60 days
    story by dcreater · 2026-01-30 · 22 comments
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    Show HN: Coreview – PR Changes Walkthroughs
    story by ggurgone · 2026-01-30 · 0 comments
  7. …"literally unusable" because it frequently completely hangs (requires kill -9) and uses 100% cpu? https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18532
    comment by jonaustin · 2026-01-30 · in Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
  8. …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.
    comment by stared · 2026-01-29 · in Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
  9. Looks awesome, perfect for a feature request for CC [0] I opened a while back. [0]: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/14375
    comment by reboot7417 · 2026-01-29 · in Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal
  10. 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.
    comment by js2 · 2026-01-27 · in 'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 HR
  11. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/3537 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/14258
    comment by esafak · 2026-01-27 · in Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month
  12. 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
    comment by branafter · 2026-01-27 · in ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
  13. …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…
    comment by csressel · 2026-01-26 · in How could Claude Code ever justify "a small game engine" (technical deepdive)
  14. …[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/...
    comment by wyldfire · 2026-01-26 · in Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month
  15. …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
    comment by tom1337 · 2026-01-26 · in Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month
  16. …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…
    comment by VerifiedReports · 2026-01-24 · in Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed
  17. …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?
  18. 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
  19. …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
    comment by EMM_386 · 2026-01-23 · in Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed
  20. …in the VS Code GUI, leading to a wildly inconsistent experience between terminal and GUI users: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/10352
    comment by btown · 2026-01-23 · in Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed
  21. It's had enormous problems in Firefox. For me it would reliably hang the entire tab. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/14222
    comment by roywiggins · 2026-01-23 · in Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed
  22. …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
    comment by copirate · 2026-01-23 · in Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed
  23. 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…
    comment by daredoes · 2026-01-23 · in Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed
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    Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed
    story by nurimamedov · 2026-01-23 · 176 comments
  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...
    comment by riwsky · 2026-01-23 · in Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale
  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…
    comment by qcnguy · 2026-01-23 · in I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
  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…
    comment by alexk6 · 2026-01-23 · in I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
  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.
    comment by cactusplant7374 · 2026-01-22 · in I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
  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
    comment by redrove · 2026-01-22 · in Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal
  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…
    comment by tristanc · 2026-01-22 · in Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small
  32. Their GitHub issue tracker is very busy: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/pulse
    comment by esafak · 2026-01-21 · in Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal
  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 *…
    comment by elliot07 · 2026-01-21 · in Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal
  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]:…
    comment by chrislloyd · 2026-01-21 · in Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal
  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...
    comment by jschlatter · 2026-01-21 · in Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal
  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…
    comment by EMM_386 · 2026-01-21 · in Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal
  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
    comment by shakna · 2026-01-20 · in Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)
  39. Issue exists now: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/19208
    comment by tennox · 2026-01-20 · in Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline
  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
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    Bring back ultrathink rainbow glow
    story by Twixes · 2026-01-16 · 0 comments
  43. …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 -…
    comment by Someone · 2026-01-15 · in Claude Cowork runs Linux VM via Apple virtualization framework
  44. …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…
    comment by arcanemachiner · 2026-01-15 · in Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files
  45. Use a devcontainer. Claude Code's repo has one built specifically for it: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/.devcont...
    comment by greggh · 2026-01-15 · in Claude Cowork runs Linux VM via Apple virtualization framework
  46. 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?
  47. 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
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    Show HN: Nori CLI, a better interface for Claude Code (no flicker)
    story by csressel · 2026-01-14 · 9 comments
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    Turn off annoying progress messages in Claude Code?
    story by jv22222 · 2026-01-11 · 0 comments
  50. …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