The New York Times source code leaked by a 4chan user
A user on the online forum 4chan has leaked a massive 270GB of data purportedly belonging to The New York Times. This leak includes what is claimed to be the source code for the newspaper’s digital operations.
It's mostly node modules
"send nodes"
270GB of mostly node modules?
You're right, it would be bigger if it was node
Sounds pretty average
Only 270GB? They must only have a few hundred lines of code.
pnpm store would probably save them a lot.of grief if true
Nah, having big node_modules folders is a security feature. It’s like keeping your valuables in a bag of trash.
It also takes a long time to make a dump, so you have a higher chance of noticing it happening.
reminds me of the time someone said "Who is this 4chan?" on tv and it became a meme. good times
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He can't keep getting away with it.
270GB feels insane for the source code of a single organisation. Is there media assets or backups in there too?
EDIT: yep, multiple subsidiaries and slack Comms which could inflate it by a lot. we post a whole lot of uncompressed shit on our slack
NY Times has a freaking great data visualisations, they are (were?) employing a wizard in this space, doing custom extensions on d3.js.
Source code... for a website?
Anything more complicated than a static website is going to have a significant amount of server-side code.
Also, the article explains that it's not just the website, but ALL of their repos, which would include their smartphone apps, backend tools, etc.
I doubt this will affect much ... that's a lot more source code than I'd expect though, dang.
Presumably a lot of it is for internal operations (custom editing software or something of that ilk).
It sounds like it's not all source code, from the article.
Now everyone will get to run Wordle!
In case anyone missed the hubbub: [ETA: This is from March 2024; unconnected to this hack/leak]
The Times has filed several Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, takedown notices to developers of Wordle-inspired games, which cited infringement on the Times’ ownership of the Wordle name, as well as its look and feel — such as the layout and color scheme of green, gray and yellow tiles.
Numerous impacted developers have also taken to social media to share their frustrations. Many said that their games, which range from Wordle-like offerings in other languages to more guessing games, would be taken down as a result.
Still, Brauneis said he believes the Times’ arguments for Wordle copyright infringement are on “a little bit shaky ground” for several reasons. Rules of a game, for example, are not covered by copyright — and that can include the layout of the game itself, he said.
I prefer Connections.
We still have no legal right to use, change and share its source code, control it both ourselves and in groups. It's still anti-libre software.
Anything that may help develop better adblockers/paywall bypasses or exposes how/what of our personal information is collected is a win in my book. And this may very well be none of those things.
Just seeing how something is approached helps.
I sometimes rebuild software from one language to another for practice.
Very few care about licenses unless the use of such material can be proven, and good luck with that
Did this leak happen before or after NYT published an investigation detailing how Israeli forces were raping and torturing defenseless Palestinian detainees brought in from the Gaza Strip?
I have not read the news in a really long time just cause paywalls are annoying as frick.
You can go to archive.is and put in the url of a news story you want to read in the second box and it will usually let you bypass the paywall.
I expect that paywall to be fully useless soon.
That's a really silly take ... a Paywall is just an authorization mechanism.
That's like saying the source code of lemmy leaks and you expect your account to be compromised any second.
I just received an email, is this related?
Critical support
Thats a lot of data but surly its not all their articles cos I'd very much like to train mixtral7x8b on it along with 4chan data and shir from the dark web. Surly there is a project where such a model is public and being trained on literally everything regardless of legality.
EDIT: why am i getting downvoted?
you're getting downvoted because LLMs are simply not very good, they consume lots of energy (bad for climate), and seemingly most people involved in ai hype want to replace human creativity or something.
how about instead of training a not very trustworthy or useful LLM on lots of nyt, 4chan, and "dark web", you go read lots of nyt, 4chan, and dark web to train your own (much better) model (your brain).
They are very good they exceed the capability of many humans in many tasks. If consume energy = bad for environment then all electric vehicles are bullshit cos they have energy inefficiencies that petrol cars don't (thermodynamics is a removed). U do realise the argument about if asking an ai to create an image is art argument is literally the same argument that was had about if photography is art.
Llm are decently trustworthy especially with chain of thought reasoning and tool capabilities. And they are extraordinarily useful people wouldnt be using them and creating a market for them of they weren't. I can't train my brain then share it for free to everyone on the internet to download I can with an ai tho.