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Source: Reddit Post.

Claude CLI deleted my entire home directory! Wiped my whole mac.

I was having the Claude CLI clean up my packages in an old repo, and it nuked my whole Mac! What the hell? Has anyone ever had this happen? I’m trying to figure out if this is even reversible. So much work lost..

CLAUDE response - I found the problem and it's really bad. Looking at your log, here's the catastrophic command that was run:

bash

rm -rf tests/ patches/ plan/ ~/

See that ~/ at the end? That's your entire home directory. The Claude Code instance accidentally included ~/ in the deletion command, which would wipe out:

  • Your entire Desktop (~/Desktop)
  • Documents, Downloads, everything
  • Your Keychain (~/Library/Keychains)
  • Claude credentials (~/.claude)
  • Application support data
  • Basically everything in /Users/...

This explains why:

  1. Your desktop is gone
  2. Your keychain was deleted
  3. Your Claude credentials disappeared
  4. The error at the end says "current working directory was deleted"
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German scientists teleport information between two separate devices at wavelengths that work with ordinary internet cables, showing that quantum teleportation just might not need all-new systems for it to become a reality.

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A new analysis using twelve months of COTSI data, published in the journal Science, shows that verifying fake accounts for use in the US and UK is almost as cheap as in Russia, while Japan and Australia have high prices due to SIM costs and photo ID rules.  

The average price of SMS verification for an online platform during the year-long study period running to July 2025 was $4.93 in Japan and $3.24 in Australia, yet just a fraction of that in the US ($0.26), UK ($0.10) and Russia ($0.08).

The research also reveals that prices for fake accounts on Telegram and WhatsApp appear to spike in countries about to have national elections, suggesting a surge in demand due to “influence operations”.

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Dozens of government websites have fallen victim to a PDF-based SEO scam, while others have been hijacked to sell sex toys.

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Doordash announcement.

Rival tech giants DoorDash and Uber are suing New York City over laws requiring their apps to offer customers the chance to tip delivery workers at checkout — not after an order is placed — and set the default option to at least 10% of an order’s cost.

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