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'New York Times source code' leaks online via 4chan

• cranberryturkey 2y ago
  Big if true
• rdtsc 2y ago
  > amounting to roughly 5,000 repositories and 3.6 million files now available for download from peer-to-peer networks. It sounds like they host all their dependencies and just cloned a lot of them to have them under control. I can’t see the newspaper writing enough code to fill 5000 repositories. There is a chance they use repositories for data or archives. Then it could make sense I guess.
  • gravypod 2y ago
    It could be that each article with js charts is a single repo.
    • xhkkffbf 2y ago
      On some special days, the crossword puzzles even generate a clever, witty animation that goes along with the hidden theme. In other words, an easter egg. They're different enough so I could see that they create a separate repository for each special version of the puzzle.
    • rdtsc 2y ago
      Yeah that’s plausible. And the text is hopefully in some nicely indexed store, a proper database, which references the repos.
    • skilled 2y ago
      That is the case for at least some of the articles. There are also quite a few initialized projects but with nothing inside of them. And the overall file count comes from things like saved email templates that they have sent out, etc. Node modules, and a lot of other garbage files from Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• omoikane 2y ago
  Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40609922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40609922 This link seem to have more info regarding the contents: https://stackdiary.com/the-new-york-times-source-code-leaked-by-a-4chan-user/ https://stackdiary.com/the-new-york-times-source-code-leaked... (via the links from this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40613883 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40613883 )