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Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code

32 points - today at 7:40 AM

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  • hnlmorg

    today at 7:11 PM

    My first ever fork bomb was in the 90s, running Microsoft own example code for OLE (or was it COM?).

    That was a great early lesson to never trust code you read online. Even if it is from Microsoft’s own developer portal.

    • Jeremy1026

      today at 7:57 PM

      What was the purpose of having Claude Code spin up two more instances of Claude Code though? What was the intended outcome there?

      • ihaveajob

        today at 6:01 PM

        Congratulations! Mine was intentional, back in college, where all PCs had open telnet in order to facilitate cooperation. We discovered it was easy to seize someone's computer for a while, and then watch them look around for the culprit, which we thought was hilarious. Boy were we annoying.

          • offbyone42

            today at 7:51 PM

            How did you not get caught??!?

        • siruwastaken

          today at 6:42 PM

          The realization that even badly running code is still faster than the average human is rather terrifying. Lucky you that it hogs so much RAM.

          • robshippr

            today at 6:53 PM

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