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Robert Reichel
Personal blog · reichel.dev/blog · on HN as rreichel03securityprogramming
Robert Reichel's personal blog at reichel.dev covers security and programming. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts to show that Wordle's source code and word lists run client-side and can be cloned, and to explain how to reverse engineer the minified code to learn how words are picked.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
The source code and word lists of Wordle is easily accessible, and runs completely client side -- anyone can clone and host their own instance if they want. https://reichel.dev/blog/reverse-engineering-wordle.html#loo...
Comment linking /blog/reverse-engineering-wordle.html
on “The New York Times buys Wordle”Submitted Reverse engineering Wordle as a story · 63 points
HN discussionThe original WORDLE also used minified JavaScript, but there are some resources on reverse engineering it, if all you're interested is learning how the words are picked [1]. [1]: https://reichel.dev/blog/reverse-engineering-wordle.html
Comment linking /blog/reverse-engineering-wordle.html
on “Wordle Now Redirects to NYT”Submitted Idea to Product in a Week as a story · 2 points
HN discussion