alt.hn

3/31/2026 at 7:40:18 AM

Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code

https://www.droppedasbaby.com/posts/2602-01/

by offbyone42

3/31/2026 at 7:11:19 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.

by hnlmorg

3/31/2026 at 6:01:57 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.

by ihaveajob

3/31/2026 at 7:51:40 PM

How did you not get caught??!?

by offbyone42

3/31/2026 at 7:57:53 PM

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

by Jeremy1026

3/31/2026 at 9:16:31 PM

I have a `SessionEnd` hook that summarizes the conversation with a bunch of metadata, but it doesn't always fire 'cause of my habits.

So, the `SessionStart` hook was meant to catch any conversation where the `SessionEnd` hook wasn't fired.

Edit: I do realize a batch job is better. That's what I do now.

by offbyone42

3/31/2026 at 8:43:25 PM

Exponential productivity gains?;)

by 331c8c71

3/31/2026 at 8:58:00 PM

I don't know about the author, but I recently saw an article where the author of Claude code apparently spins up multiple instances at once (note that it could have just been a marketing ploy to get people to use more tokens)

https://www.xda-developers.com/set-up-claude-code-like-boris...

by awesome_dude

3/31/2026 at 9:17:44 PM

Just use Git worktrees and a lightweight VM environment (I like macOS native sandbox-exec) and you can spawn as many sessions as you want. I've run upwards of 30 at once on my M2 Pro with no noticeable resource impact.

by MarcelOlsz

3/31/2026 at 6:42:26 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.

by siruwastaken

3/31/2026 at 6:53:09 PM

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by robshippr