[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!
Might as well just go straight to Bing
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
That’s super useful.
Edit: it was a blank results page when I posted this comment
deleted by creator
That’s weird. So does notepad++
Definitely a you problem
Just did it. literally the first result was for notepad ++
That’s just not true mate.
