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kpcyrdyesterday at 5:30 PM3 repliesview on HN

I feel like this is related to these issues (with somebody attempting this approach for real):

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/331


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ylereyesterday at 7:40 PM

It also shows why this approach is questionable. Opus 4.6 without tool use or web access can provide chardets source code in full from memory/training data (ironically, including the licensing header): https://gist.github.com/yannleretaille/1ce99e1872e5f3b7b133e...

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alexwebb2yesterday at 10:26 PM

Wow. The guy who’s been thanklessly maintaining the project for 10+ years, with very little help, went way out of his way to produce a zero-reuse, ground-up reimplementation so that it could be MIT licensed... and the very-online copyleft crowd is crucifying him for it and telling him to kick rocks.

Unbelievable. This is why we can’t have nice things.

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lupireyesterday at 5:45 PM

That's worth its own submission and discussion.

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