[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37396511](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37396511)
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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.
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.
Already fixed.
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.
Definitely a you problem
That’s super useful.
Edit: it was a blank results page when I posted this comment
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!
That’s weird. So does notepad++
Just did it. literally the first result was for notepad ++
That’s just not true mate.