Claude Chill
Shares rank 73 of 86 privilege escalation tools by recommenders
A fix for Claude Code's terminal flickering that people say works well. The most common caveat is that it breaks Ghostty's native scrollback.
A fix for Claude Code's terminal flickering that people say works well. The most common caveat is that it breaks Ghostty's native scrollback.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 71%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Relieves Claude Code flickering headaches
“Excellent, thank you. This had be causing me headaches!”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's Flickering in Terminal” “it now flickers periodically but not like crazy”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's Flickering in Terminal” Creative, useful fix for Claude Code
“Possibly the greatest contribution to Claude code in months.”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's Flickering in Terminal” “Kudos for the creative solution.”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's Flickering in Terminal” “You're doing the lords work!”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's Flickering in Terminal”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Breaks Ghostty native scrollback
“it breaks Ghostty's native scrollback (two-finger scroll)”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's Flickering in Terminal” “Claude Chill breaks scrollback on ghostty”
Comment from 23 Jan 2026 in “Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's Flickering in Terminal” Flicker still occurs periodically
“it now flickers periodically but not like crazy”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's Flickering in Terminal”
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See all 86 privilege escalation tools, rankedWhat people said
All 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Claude Chill breaks scrollback on ghostty”
“The readme.md format and conventions being a tell that this got written by Claude Code itself”
“it breaks Ghostty's native scrollback (two-finger scroll)”
“You're doing the lords work!”
“Possibly the greatest contribution to Claude code in months.”
“it now flickers periodically but not like crazy”
“Excellent, thank you. This had be causing me headaches!”
“Kudos for the creative solution.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.