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Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my Mac

251 pointsby tamndlast Sunday at 11:23 PM213 commentsview on HN

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bamboozledlast Sunday at 11:33 PM

"See that ~/ at the end? That's your entire home directory."

This is comedy gold. If I didn't know better I'd say you hurt Claude in a previous session and it saw its opportunity to get you back.

Really not much evidence at all this actually happened, I call BS.

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classifiedlast Monday at 12:15 PM

C programmers know, "Undefined Behavior might format your hard drive", but it rarely ever happens. LLMs provide that for everyone, not just C programmers, and this time it actually happens. So, as promised, improvements on all fronts!

pshirshovlast Monday at 12:50 AM

Run your shit in firejail or bubblewrap. On mac you can use this: https://github.com/neko-kai/claude-code-sandbox

estlast Monday at 1:56 AM

next hype would be AI in containers?

agumonkeylast Sunday at 11:53 PM

so back to isolated vm dev envs ?

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CamperBob2last Monday at 12:39 AM

Next up on HN: Lawnmower deleted my right foot

fragmedelast Sunday at 11:54 PM

Lol. Pay for Arq and don't look back!

the21stlast Monday at 7:19 AM

Another one vibes the dust

enigma101last Monday at 2:57 AM

here we go again

sudormrfrootlast Monday at 3:10 AM

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socrateswasonelast Monday at 1:34 PM

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ath3ndlast Sunday at 11:34 PM

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