Searching for "notepad" on duckduckgo yield 0 result

db2 , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

That’s super useful.

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

Bishma , 9 months ago

That’s weird. So does notepad++

glad_cat , 9 months ago

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37396511

leo , 9 months ago

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.

PeachMan , 9 months ago

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

leo , 9 months ago

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

Chewy7324 , 9 months ago

According to commenters on HN it was a faulty regex.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37396511

magic_lobster_party , 9 months ago

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

SpaceNoodle , 9 months ago

Might as well just go straight to Bing

Roundcat , 9 months ago

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

Norgur , 9 months ago

That's just not true mate.

Blizzard , 9 months ago

Already fixed.

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/baf63d83-bb0b-47e6-bb17-5ba4ae5bf91a.webp

lath , 9 months ago

Most results are for notepad++ for me, but i still get notepad results lower on the first page.

5th: onlinenotepad.org/notepad

6th: apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/9MSMLRH6LZF3?hl=e…

7th: …microsoft.com/…/help-in-notepad-4d68c388-2ff2-0e…

9th: notepad.js.org

SaltySalamander , 9 months ago

Definitely a you problem

RoyalEngineering , 9 months ago

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.

ThetaDev , 9 months ago

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

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

DirigibleProtein , 9 months 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.