Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code

I appreciate the growth mentality in the use of the word "first" there.

ihaveajob 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How did you not get caught??!?

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hnlmorg 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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eek2121 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Care to clarify? Windows doesn't have fork or a fork equivalent...

	▲	connicpu 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A fork bomb can refer to any process that spawns multiple recursive child processes. You don't need fork to spawn more copies of yourself, that is merely the classic Unix implementation.

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nbbaier 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I want to know what's going on under the hood of the /adhd skill. Sounds immensely useful for me.

	▲	offbyone42 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm working on a part 2 with a bit more detail for that skill! It just has to go through a couple more drafts. I don't use AI for these. My friends edit/give feedback, so the cycle is slow.

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Jeremy1026 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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offbyone42 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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331c8c71 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Exponential productivity gains?;)

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awesome_dude 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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...

	▲	MarcelOlsz 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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siruwastaken 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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nurettin 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In my days nearest thing to a fork bomb used to be call autoexec.bat from autoexec.bat