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The New York Times source code leaked by a 4chan user (stackdiary.com)

submitted 5 months ago by skilledtothegills to c/technology

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A user on the online forum 4chan has leaked a massive 270GB of data purportedly belonging to The New York Times. This leak includes what is claimed to be the source code for the newspaper’s digital operations.

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[–] [email protected] 178 points 5 months ago (4 children)

It's mostly node modules

[–] wreckedcarzz 120 points 5 months ago

"send nodes"

[–] SpaceNoodle 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I hate Web 3.0

[–] CaptainSpaceman 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Node has been around longer than web3

NPM nightmares intensify

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Web 3.0 ≠ web3

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As someone who has read these terms in passing but is unfamiliar with them: What the fuck?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm with you. web3 is the cryptobro blockchain web, while Web 3.0 usually refers to either RFC-based standards or "the state of the modern web" - the post 2.0 era

[–] CaptainSpaceman 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Http3 != web3.0

Web3 everywhere ive looked is strictly for blockchain approach to web

Im happy to be wrong, but my search yielded nothing to support your position. Do you have a resource handy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

HTTP/3 is yet another thing, unrelated to both of them. Wikipedia has a disambiguation page for the two meanings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_3.0 https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/04/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-wants-us-to-ignore-web3.html

[–] autonomoususer 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I also hate making things from smaller pieces, the engineering in software engineering. /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Nah fuck the entire node ecosystem. It’s proof of how bad people have become at software design. Especially web devs. It’s crazy to me how many devs introduce breaking changes because of their “philosophy” or because the original design was straight up terrible.

[–] General_Effort 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

270GB of mostly node modules?

[–] SpaceNoodle 52 points 5 months ago

You're right, it would be bigger if it was node

[–] asdfasdfasdf 8 points 5 months ago

Sounds pretty average

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Only 270GB? They must only have a few hundred lines of code.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

pnpm store would probably save them a lot.of grief if true

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Nah, having big node_modules folders is a security feature. It’s like keeping your valuables in a bag of trash.

It also takes a long time to make a dump, so you have a higher chance of noticing it happening.