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270GB of source code from The New York Times leaked to 4Chan
- Ecco 2y agoHow can a news outlet even have 270GB of source code to begin with? That’s like 2’000 times the entire Linux kernel…
- bloopernova 2y agoImages/Video maybe? Though I would not want to use that git repo!
- tokai 2y agoApparently its 5000 repos, somehow.
- buggeryorkshire 2y ago'git clone' Fuck
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- nick238 2y agoMultiple forks, huge blobs of data that someone stuck into a repo for some reason (had issues where someone would git add -A without a good .gitignore and wind up with several ~50-100 MB generated files in a repo)...
- mark242 2y agoOne node_modules directory?
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- sureIy 2y agoEasy. It’s not code. NYT regularly creates interactive stories and those creative developers have no idea how to deal with assets. I deal with that category often and our little projects reach half a gig unless I catch it in time. No PRs, just commit all, merge from remote and push.
- itsoktocry 2y ago[flagged]
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- prmoustache 2y agoIt doesn't have to be their source code. They mught just have local fork of every single public repo they have used at least once in a project. I don't know a single company that does cleanup of repos that are unused so it can grow quickly.
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- cbsks 2y agoHere’s the repo list: https://files.catbox.moe/jx7ksm.txt https://files.catbox.moe/jx7ksm.txt It’s a lot.
- SilverBirch 2y agoThe New York Times is a mini-game company with a newspaper attached.[1] [1]:https://x.com/ballmatthew/status/1774413955940639199/photo/1 https://x.com/ballmatthew/status/1774413955940639199/photo/1
- Turing_Machine 2y agoThey don't. The person who tweeted/xed/whatever doesn't know what he's talking about. 270 gigs of data? Entirely possible. 270 gigs of source code? YeahNo.
- skilled 2y agoThe thread on 4chan: https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/100843783 https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/100843783 Magnet link: https://files.catbox.moe/jsowk8.txt https://files.catbox.moe/jsowk8.txt (Archived: https://archive.is/N3M8F https://archive.is/N3M8F) -- It looks like most peers are at 86%, so should have confirmation pretty soon.
- aspenmayer 2y ago4chan thread archive: https://archive.is/3xs2l https://archive.is/3xs2l
- DaSHacka 2y agoBetter to use one of the 4chan archives, it'll display every reply made to the thread until it 404's instead of a one-time snapshot https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/100843783 https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/100843783
- aspenmayer 2y agoReal life pro tip in the comments, thanks anon o7
- electromech 2y ago> The New York Times leak does include sensitive information - I was able to identify a database of ~1k users (email, name and surname, hashed passwords) https://x.com/stackdiary/status/1799180195892535441 https://x.com/stackdiary/status/1799180195892535441 From the linked article: > those attempting to download the data via torrent are reportedly stuck at 85% and unable to complete the download... A few hours later, the person responsible for the leak provided another torrent link, which separated the files as opposed to making them a single archive. This new torrent has three folders called nytimes, nytm, and TheAthletic. The two files inside the TheAthelic folder are iOS.tar and android.tar; we verified that they reflect the source code of The Athletics mobile apps.
- bgaluszka 2y ago
- cooper_ganglia 2y agoGod bless 4chan.
- INTPenis 2y agoYeah in particular that second comment. Stay classy 4chan.
- cooper_ganglia 2y agoThat comment made me laugh out loud, solely because of how incredibly quick it took for it to make it's way into the discussion. That being comment #2 is insane, any screenshots of the post for articles are going to have to crop it out lmao
- skilled 2y agoThe one reply to that comment is also great: > ripgrep is faster
- electricdreams 2y ago[dead]
- pavlov 2y agoWhat do people expect to find here? The smoking gun for mainstream media's space laser Covid microchip woke conspiracies?
- anonfordays 2y ago[flagged]
- pavlov 2y agoI'm really curious to see how that translates to TypeScript.
- anonfordays 2y ago[flagged]
- satvikpendem 2y agoNot sure why this is flagged when it's a literal piece of source code.
- anonfordays 2y ago[flagged]
- make3 2y ago[flagged]
- anonfordays 2y ago>stupid and bigoted What was stupid and bigoted? I provided a factual instance of this happening in the not distance past. >as a human I contributed to down voting it I never made the claim that the flagging was automatic or non-human.
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- crispyambulance 2y agoI expect there's some good stuff in there. The creator of D3.js used to work for the NYTimes doing amazing visualizations. As did some other well-known developers. My guess is that there will be also be some interesting tooling in there that they used for data-mining massive numbers of scans/pdf's snagged from disinterested/hostile bureaucracies.
- text0404 2y agothis only looks like a leak from the IT/infra/"website" org, not the news org which is composed of reporters. it makes sense that they'd have different internal github instances since in media companies those are largely separate entities, and the news org likely handles much more sensitive code/data/assets with stricter access controls.
- markx2 2y agoNYT uses WordPress, so that goes some way to the size...
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- Jimmc414 2y agofull list of repos in the leak: https://files.catbox.moe/jx7ksm.txt https://files.catbox.moe/jx7ksm.txt
- ryandrake 2y agoI'm shocked that there are so many repos. To be sure, are these all really separate repos and not just directories? I've only worked at monorepo companies, and when I see the "monorepo vs. multiple repo" debates, I always picture in my mind that we're arguing about 1 vs. maybe 5 or 6 repos--like a repo for each major project. But thousands of repos, one for every little nugget??? That is totally wild. Is this an actual industry practice?
- emrehan 2y agoI don’t think this could hury NYT in any way except bringing questions on data safety concerns. They would have better open sourced their code in the first place.
- tmaly 2y agoHow much of it is still Perl?
- sreegowthamj 2y agoList of GPL violations... 3...2...1..!
- bgaluszka 2y agoNew magnet link that has seeders and is in separate archives: https://files.catbox.moe/ez1ncr.txt https://files.catbox.moe/ez1ncr.txt