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claude-code

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.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

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.

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Where it is used

  • Pictet — “A separate team successfully implemented a disaster recovery feature with Claude Code where other AI tools had failed.” Source
  • Twilio — “Over 51 days, working solo with Claude Code, Carpenter built the Feature Factory: a self-learning development system that takes a brainstorm idea through a subagent pipeline to produce specs, tests, working code, and documentation.” Source
  • 8 more documented examples

What people are saying

My favorite is the Claude Code bugtracker, on GitHub of course: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues There is some bot that will match your issue to some other 3…

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Critical Commenters criticize Anthropic for unclear billing, auto-closing bug reports, breaking features without notice, and various usability issues in Claude Code. One commenter praises the tool as the best harness on the market.

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This week on Hacker News

Critical

Commenters criticize Anthropic for unclear billing, auto-closing bug reports, breaking features without notice, and various usability issues in Claude Code. One commenter praises the tool as the best harness on the market.

Supporting reply 1 · Supporting reply 2 · Supporting reply 3 · Supporting reply 4 · Supporting reply 5 · 5 discussions summarized

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 1:03:20 AM UTC.

Goodbye Claude, hello Pi direct repository linkDebated

Developers are divided between migrating to third-party harnesses like Pi for their customizability and control, versus staying with native tools like Claude Code due to concerns about stability, security, and vendor restrictions. The strongest disagreement centers on whether the flexibility of open-source harnesses outweighs the operational risks of manual configuration and potential Terms of Service violations.

493 readable replies · Supporting reply 1 · Supporting reply 2 · Supporting reply 3 · Supporting reply 4
Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files direct repository linkDebated

The discussion centers on whether Claude Code's 'Don't Ask Again' feature is at fault for leaking secrets into public repositories or if the issue stems entirely from user negligence in committing local settings files. Conversely, defenders argue that manual review is fundamentally unsustainable at scale and that the industry must shift toward automated approval or robust sandboxing despite current flaws.

429 readable replies · Supporting reply 1 · Supporting reply 2 · Supporting reply 3 · Supporting reply 4

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month528 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-02-24 19:48:14 UTC to 2026-10-30 14:49:33 UTC.

02550751002025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 commentsFeb 20252025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 3 submissions, 2 comments2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 4 submissions, 9 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 5 submissions, 5 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 1 submissions, 9 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 15 mentions; 5 submissions, 10 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 5 submissions, 7 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 8 submissions, 13 commentsDec 20252026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 76 mentions; 14 submissions, 62 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 37 mentions; 9 submissions, 28 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 47 mentions; 12 submissions, 35 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 103 mentions; 29 submissions, 74 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 26 mentions; 9 submissions, 17 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 4 submissions, 17 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 32 mentions; 10 submissions, 22 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 32 mentions; 12 submissions, 20 comments2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 31 mentions; 8 submissions, 23 comments2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 22 mentions; 4 submissions, 18 commentsOct 2026

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What Hacker News says

103 sources
sroussey·Apr 30, 2026Submission

Claude Code dies with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in cloud environment

If you put ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in the cloud environment, this will cause CC to fail to do anything. So you were using it because your tests are going to look for it, think again, find another way. Also, I suspect that is why I had a lot of "Extra usage". For the whole long history: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/54497 Hope this saves some others a lot of headaches!
16 points · Open discussion
nickthegreek·Apr 30, 2026
It doesnt decline if you have API billing enabled, it straight up charges your request to API instead of Quota if setup (see $200 charge example below). This is happening if you have the words HERMES.md or OpenClaw apparently in the commit. In OP's example, it immediately depleted his session quota because of the words. That is not 'declining to operate'. Also, remember, it is the presence of the words. So if the commit was 'we dont do this, we arent openclaw', you are affected. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262#issue...
In Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
pluc·Apr 30, 2026
I don't know why anyone is still using this - much less defending them.. In the last MONTH, I've asked how you can defend implementing (or even choose implementing) AI when: the AI you have implemented throughout your company changes the results you've come to trust? https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/claude_outage_quality... or won't let you log in?: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/44257 or makes stuff up?: https://dwyer.co.za/static/claude-mixes-up-who-said-what-and... or when it's down?: https://status.claude.com/incidents/6jd2m42f8mld or when you get banned?: https://bannedbyanthropic.com/ or installs spyware: https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/ or takes the features you use out of the plan you subscribe to without notice? https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/anthropic_removes_cla... or render
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s your IP legally unenforceable? https://legallayer.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-claude-code-w... or stealthily changes pricing terms based on... file names you have? https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262 or invoices you for usage you did not perform, and won't answer support requests until you raise hell on social media? https://nickvecchioni.github.io/thoughts/2026/04/08/anthropi... i mean seriously, why on earth would you use this? i thought we were professionals
In HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
rstuart4133·Apr 30, 2026
Others are disagreeing with you here, and I do too. The difference is profound, and takes more than a couple of days to get your head around the implications. I'd summarise it as: "if you give a computer the same input it always produces the same output, but if you give a model the same input it always produces different output". Add to that the output is often wrong and it can't reliably follow instructions, and the difference is so great it breaks most of your intuitions. The reward working with this piece of unreliable jelly is it can be far smarter than you (think the difference between a man with a shovel and a 20 ton excavator - they can literally find bugs in minutes that would take a human hours or days), and they know far more than you. The engineering challenge is to make this near random machine produce a reliable product. I
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t isn't easy. The hype you see around them is it's trivially easy to get it to produce a feature rich but very unreliable product, as Anthropic demonstrates with their vibe coded claude-cli. I refuse to use it now. Among its other charms, it triggers a BSOD on windows: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/30137 (Granted, it's just another Windows bug: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-ca/answers/questions/5814272/..., but if you are shipping to Windows you should be working around such bugs.)
In "People who don't use AI will be left behind"
parentheses·Apr 29, 2026
I feel like it's not news that a company with (probably) millions of DAU is not able to handle a single case like this one. At the same time, it's clear that after this happened, Anthropic took action. 3 DAYS AGO! (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954655) That's before this comment was made on the issue: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262#issue... I'm surprised Anthropic didn't also say this on the issue. Weird that they wouldn't. It seems to have made for unnecessary bad PR. It feels to me that Anthropic is less focused on quality, and more focused on PR stunts/flash. My experience with Claude is always "it's pretty and feels cool", where-as codex feels like "solid and boring". I realize I'm probably biased. Am I alone in this thinking?
In HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

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