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Did you read the article? “[…]because we can generate 1.2 METRIC BAJILLION valid URLs just for a single fork of linux.git.”
by grep_it 27d ago
Did you read the article?
“[…]because we can generate 1.2 METRIC BAJILLION valid URLs just for a single fork of linux.git.”
- jwilk 27d agoFrom the HN guidelines <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".
- inigyou 27d agoWhat if it's really obvious they didn't read the article?
- znnajdla 27d agoI did read the article. It just didn't occur to me that their combinatorial explosion of diffs was scrape-able. To be honest that sounds like an scrapers tarpit / honeypot now, because there is no value in scraping trillions of diffs. Sounds like the issue could be fixed by putting the diffs in a frontend app, not scrapable by URL, only by clicking around the app.