Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code
by offbyone42 on 3/31/2026, 7:40:18 AM
https://www.droppedasbaby.com/posts/2602-01/
Comments
by: Jeremy1026
What was the purpose of having Claude Code spin up two more instances of Claude Code though? What was the intended outcome there?
3/31/2026, 7:57:53 PM
by: hnlmorg
My first ever fork bomb was in the 90s, running Microsoft own example code for OLE (or was it COM?).<p>That was a great early lesson to never trust code you read online. Even if it is from Microsoft’s own developer portal.
3/31/2026, 7:11:19 PM
by: ihaveajob
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.
3/31/2026, 6:01:57 PM
by: siruwastaken
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.
3/31/2026, 6:42:26 PM
by: robshippr
[dead]
3/31/2026, 6:53:09 PM