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Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)

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357 points vxvrs | 4 comments | 16 Nov 25 19:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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stingraycharles ◴[17 Nov 25 11:04 UTC] No.45952548[source]▶
Totally unrelated, but what I found interesting: the README hasn’t been touched for years, yet it looks entirely AI generated. Including the commits.

People actually wrote READMEs / commit messages like that before? Have I been living under a rock?

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1. dewey ◴[17 Nov 25 11:25 UTC] No.45952671[source]▶
Where do you think the AI training data comes from?

Emoji-heavy documentation/commit messages always seem very popular in JS projects, as this is seems to be the project of a 12 (Edit: It's 20, misread) year old I'm not too surprised that it's a bit unusual compared to others.

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2. stingraycharles ◴[17 Nov 25 11:44 UTC] No.45952780[source]▶
Ah, I didn’t know this was made by a child, that makes sense then.

I knew this was part of the JS community, I just didn’t realize AI was literally 1:1 using the same style.

I guess didn’t realize that the NodeJS community was so dominant.

Or maybe is it because the NodeJS community always had a style of “many small libraries”, which causes them to be over represented?

3. hogdanish ◴[17 Nov 25 11:53 UTC] No.45952827[source]▶
The README.md says the author was twenty years old when it was written. Am I missing something here?
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4. dewey ◴[17 Nov 25 11:53 UTC] No.45952831[source]▶
I read it as twelve. My bad!