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"The reason is the staff at the NYT appear to be very well versed in the technical tricks people use to gain access."

It appears anyone can read any new NYT article in the Internet Archive. I use a text-only browser. I am not using Javascript. I do not send a User-Agent header. Don't take my word for it. Here is an example:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240603124838if_/https://www.ny...

If I am not mistaken the NYT recently had their entire private Github repository, a very large one, made public without their consent. This despite the staff at the NYT being "well-versed" in whatever it is the HN commenter thinks they are well versed in.

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https://securityboulevard.com/2024/08/the-secrets-of-the-new...

Because I had to learn more, sounds like a pretty bad breach. But I’m still pretty impressed by NYTs technical staff for the most part for the things they do accomplish, like the interactive web design of some very complicated data visualizations.

Wasn't the creator/maintainer of svelte on the NYT data visualisation/web technology team?

Rich Harris, creator of Svelte, worked at the Guardian. Svelte has been adopted at NYT however [0].

You might be thinking of Mike Bostock, the creator of D3.js and ObservableHQ.com, who led data visualization work at NYT for several years [1]. I'm not sure if they have people of that magnitude working for them now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svelte

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Bostock

Rich did work at the NYT. I thought there was some Mandela effect going on for a second, because you misled me into believing you had actually googled it by providing sources.

Might want to update the Wiki article on Svelte, which strongly implies Rich worked at The Guardian, not NYT. The only source I could quickly find that seems to corroborate what you're saying is a LinkedIn page, but because of its bullshit paywall, there's context missing.

Yeah, my bad. I shouldn't have relied solely on the Wikipedia article and my (sketchy) memory. Rich Harris is still listed as a graphics editor on the investigative team at NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/by/rich-harris

You may be thinking of https://bost.ocks.org/mike/ who worked there for a while, D3 and Observable, among many other things.

I would hope that they’re in IA on purpose. It would be exceptionally lame if NYT didn’t let their articles be archived by the Internet’s best and most definitive archive. It would be scary to me if they had only been allowing IA archiving because they were too stupid to know about it.

> I use a text-only browser.

Which browser is this?

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You could have just said the name in less words facepalm

Perhaps they're a regular contributor to somewhere that discusses 'the browser they use' and don't want any association with it via HN.

It seems parent is more interested in riddling than informing. Their browser is likely https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser)

When it comes to fruitful discussions that leaves one with satisfaction and contentment, this ain't it. This is the polar opposite. Cheers

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