[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37396511](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37396511)
yegg 1 hour ago | next [–]
Hi all (CEO & Founder, DuckDuckGo here). Looks like something may have broken in a release that went out today – >it is triggering a JS error. We’re looking into it now and should have it resolved soon. UPDATE: this should be fixed now.
Already fixed.
Wondering if someone could create a less tricky alternative to regex.
Cloudflare’s infamous outage was also one regex character off.
Regexng could result a longer string, but more human readable than plain old regex.
Basically regexng could be regex with more syntactic sugar.
There is a projekt out there that offers a more human-readable language that compiles to plain regex.
Wondering if someone could create a less tricky alternative to regex.
This is the only alternative I’ve ever seen. Good luck finding a working implementation.
I’d love to know the “why” behind this bug. Assuming it’s not actually a feature!
According to commenters on HN it was a faulty regex.
Looks more like they didn’t sanitize the input properly, causing the top result Notepad++ be interpreted as a regex.
Good find. Relevant bit:
Hi all (CEO & Founder, DuckDuckGo here). Looks like something may have broken in a release that went out today – it is triggering a JS error. We’re looking into it now and should have it resolved soon.
They’re not sanitizing their inputs properly. Little Bobby Tables strikes again!
Most results are for notepad++ for me, but i still get notepad results lower on the first page.
5th: https://onlinenotepad.org/notepad
6th: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/9MSMLRH6LZF3?hl=en-us&gl=US
7th: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/help-in-notepad-4d68c388-2ff2-0e7f-b706-35fb2ab88a8c
Might as well just go straight to Bing
That’s super useful.
Edit: it was a blank results page when I posted this comment
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That’s weird. So does notepad++
Definitely a you problem
That’s just not true mate.
Just did it. literally the first result was for notepad ++
