# Claude Mythos Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/mythos/ 137 people recommended Claude Mythos in Hacker News comments, 102 had mixed feelings and 380 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 12 months, in 94 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Criticized more than recommended: critics call much of it marketing hype and note restricted, expensive access; those who recommend it cite finding subtle, chained security vulnerabilities in hardened code like curl and Linux. Summary written by Claude from the comments below. Claude agents reviewed it against the quotes on 2 Nov 2026. ## What people warn about - Overhyped marketing and scaremongering (5 comments in the sample): "Mythos looks like a good incremental model but the PR team has done a great job of associating themselves with the current trend" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48094208)) "Mythos simply hasn't lived up to the "we're all gunna die from the flood of vulnerabilities" hype even slightly" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093214)) "Mythos is extreme hype. We are at a combo of authoritarian politicians peddling fear for power and tech bros trying to extract maximum investment returns." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703215)) - Restricted access, very expensive (3 comments in the sample): "Mythos is unavailable for non-privileged users and even when it will be available for more people it will be much more expensive than the alternatives." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722505)) "Anthropic has been touting how their newest model is basically a cyber weapon and is so dangerous that they need to only role it out…" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694973)) "Weird take to claim "generally intelligent frontier" (whatever rhat means) and restrict availability based on "offensive" cyber security alone" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148542)) - Many false positives and noise (2 comments in the sample): "it is not perfect, very much similar to what pentesters would do with the added bloat of noise in reports about nonissues" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146344)) "80% of the security vulnerabilities that Mythos initially flagged in the Linux kernel turned out to be false positives" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932573)) - Not clearly better than alternatives (1 comment in the sample): "I would expect Mythos to be able to find vulnerabilities without pointing it out for him, otherwise it's no better from other agents." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187912)) ## Why people recommend it - Finds subtle, chained vulnerabilities (5 comments in the sample): "The Mythos reports have several examples of chaining a whole bunch of logic in different parts of the program together to exploit something very subtle." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055960)) "These models are definitely a lot better than your run of the mill human developer at finding security flaws in existing systems." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640634)) "The interesting thing about Mythos is its ability to find security vulns in software that has an uncompromised supply chain." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47683106)) - Useful hit rate despite hallucinations (2 comments in the sample): "its hit rate on finding potential bugs and filtering out the real ones from the hallucinations is good enough to matter" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064679)) "That they were able to use it for security scanning puts the false positive rate at a useable level, inherently." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747011)) - Makes executives take security seriously (2 comments in the sample): "Mythos is good for cybersecurity simply because now executives can’t just tell people that only superhackers can break their stuff" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042468)) "If Mythos is what it takes to get you (your boss?) to take these issues serious, then the hype is worth it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185109)) - Worth it for critical software (1 comment in the sample): "Using a very expensive model like Mythos for some little used non-critical software is overkill, but for Curl, it absolutely isn't." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093686)) ## Other language models people recommend - [Claude Opus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-opus/): 1880 recommend, 852 mixed, 2013 criticize - [Fable](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fable/): 803 recommend, 359 mixed, 1291 criticize - [OpenAI GPT](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-5-5/): 764 recommend, 290 mixed, 764 criticize - [DeepSeek V4 Flash](https://hackerapproved.com/p/deepseek-v4-flash/): 631 recommend, 127 mixed, 168 criticize ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.anthropic.com/) ## The badge A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged. ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Claude Mythos", https://hackerapproved.com/p/mythos/ (137 recommend, 102 mixed, 380 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026). Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.