# Claude Science

11 Hacker News commenters recommended Claude Science and 19 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for fast, scripted analyses of research data, with the caveat that its outputs can contain hallucinations that need checking.

## Why people recommend it

- Fast results on data analyses (3 comments): "knocked out my analyses in minutes using command line tools like bcftools and scripting" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750024)) "Claude Science seemed to make very easy work of it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743663)) "it solved it in about a minute" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742661))

## What people warn about

- Hallucinations and unreliable outputs (2 comments): "On the one hand this is way better. On the other hand it's just good enough that your spot check will look good and your work will still contain hallucinations" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752501)) "a nice but verbose literature overview of my chosen topic that includes at least one hallucinated reference" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736063))
- Costly subscription and profit-driven design (5 comments): "one or two companies holding the keys to "progress" for a monthly subscription price" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848570)) "$200/mo. Me, a scientist: copy-pasting into Claude and saying "I did the analysis."" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757755)) "Shows how their priorities are for profitability first and help humanity second." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736349))
- Limited to life sciences (3 comments): "impressive to me, but sadly i feel a little misleading since this is only the data-science part of life sciences" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736306)) "i think that this product would not be a fit for all given diversity of scientific tasks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48744927)) "The connectors and skills are all just biology and pharma." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48737696))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Claude Science", https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-science/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).