[emilv]

It's pretty strange to get root access to a server, even though it's just a Docker VM. We can install anything we want, compile any C code we want, DDoS and spam anyone we want... The machine is also crazy loaded right now, with 100% load on all cores (according to htop that I installed from the package repo), almost run out of RAM and disk space decreasing fast.

[ykumar6]

We are a bit overwhelmed by the load right now, didn't expect to get hit by HackerNews today :) We are spinning up more servers

[Alupis]

This is a good problem :)

You guys have a very nice looking product.

[NathanKP]

I'd be willing to bet that someone has already run a fork bomb just to see what would happen.

[ykumar6]

Yes, I'm from Runnable. People have tried fork bombs. We are pretty good and cleaning them up. Please do not try this and let other users enjoy the platform

[haphazardeous]

I'm sorry to say I did run a piece of java code to see how it handled creating many threads.. Didn't mean to cause any harm. I was just curious.

[codygman]

I installed ghc just to see if packages could be installed, sorry if that caused you problems.

[ykumar6]

that seems fine to me

[zabcik]

Speaking of GHC, you guys should work on supporting Haskell.

[pouzy]

Why wouldn't you use a normal user and not root ? This seems overly dangerous

[ykumar6]

We follow an honor-based system. If a user abuses root access, we take their privileges away

[Alupis]

Nice, but some users are not "honorable". And you make it super easy and quick to make accounts, no confirmation, just enter some email address. (not that i'm complaining about that part, i like easy signups... but it may open you to abuse).