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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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528Mentions
3Explicit recommenders
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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, 3:30:57 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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May 20262026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC26917
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Sep 20262026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC31823
Oct 20262026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC22418

What Hacker News says

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According to https://gist.github.com/unkn0wncode/f87295d055dd0f0e8082358a... among many, the environment variable CLAUDE_CODE_SUPPRESS_SESSION_ATTRIBUTION was added in CC version 2.1.202 on July 8, 2026. Setting it to value 1 will suppresses session-URL attribution (returns null instead of the session attribution info). I will set it, as suggested in this July 18 comment https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/66504#issue... And in ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md this 'git rule' which works fine: Never add a Co-Authored-By line or any other reference to Claude in commit messages.
In Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
I submitted an application for Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program. I was approved. 3 months later, my approval was degraded into "in review" (revoked). I'm sure my account was flagged based on contents of debugging/researching firmwares/etc. I opened a support ticket. No response. I opened another support ticket. No response. 1-2 weeks later, I got a response that I will not be re-approved and I need to reapply. No problem. The page to reapply on does not allow me to re-apply because it my account is stuck in an "in review" status. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/84352 The community thinks it's a bug. I'm 95% sure it's not and a bunch of us who were previously approved had it revoked due to flagged content and will not be reapproved. I switched to Codex + got TAC approved instantly and have not looked back. It's a sha
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me. That's 100% separate from whatever the heck the quality of Opus 5's outputs are. The way it talks... insane. I would bet a good amount of money their next release will focus "reduced simplified responses" if I had to guess. $2t company by the way
In Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code
What's interesting is that the closure event was mysteriously deleted [0]. Compare with others like [1] which do keep the "bcherny closed this as completed 1m ago"; for some reason it's missing here, even though Boris closed it as completed in the same manner as confirmed by GitHub notifications. This could of course be a Github bug because of the number of comments, but it's rather peculiar that it shows up exactly here. Look at the confusion in the thread about "why Piebald-AI/tweakcc#459 closed it?". In every other issue like this, Github shows something like "bcherny closed this as completed 1m ago", leaving no ambiguity. Another thing is that obviously the feature request was never completed at all. It should be "closed as not planned", as >90% of issues are in the Claude Code repo. Yet just for this one they make an exception and cl
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ose it as "completed", breaking precedent. It's so chickenshit. Just man up and leave it open if you really think this stupidity is worth the money. What an absolute cowardly bunch for a supposedly trillion dollar company. [0] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235#event-... [1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/66955#event...
In Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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