Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code(droppedasbaby.com)
32 points by offbyone42 13 hours ago | 5 comments
- hnlmorg 1 hour agoMy 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 20 minutes agoWhat was the purpose of having Claude Code spin up two more instances of Claude Code though? What was the intended outcome there?
- ihaveajob 2 hours agoCongratulations! 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 26 minutes agoHow did you not get caught??!?
- siruwastaken 2 hours agoThe 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 1 hour ago[dead]