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

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16 points·lawgimenez··7 comments

> 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.

It could be that each article with js charts is a single repo.

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.

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.

Yeah that’s plausible. And the text is hopefully in some nicely indexed store, a proper database, which references the repos.

Discussion from yesterday:

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...

(via the links from this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40613883 )

Big if true

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