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[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.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Already fixed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There is a projekt out there that offers a more human-readable language that compiles to plain regex.

https://pomsky-lang.org/docs/get-started/introduction/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

They're not sanitizing their inputs properly. Little Bobby Tables strikes again!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d love to know the “why” behind this bug. Assuming it’s not actually a feature!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Looks more like they didn’t sanitize the input properly, causing the top result Notepad++ be interpreted as a regex.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Might as well just go straight to Bing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's super useful.

Edit: it was a blank results page when I posted this comment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's weird. So does notepad++

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Just did it. literally the first result was for notepad ++

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

That's just not true mate.