Just a note: the White House also uses archive.ph.

Search for “Americans are spending like never before: Retail sales are booming — up 5% over last year, far outpacing inflation — as Americans spend in record amounts.” [1]

The phrase “up 5%” links directly to archive.ph.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/the-economy-is-b...

There is an important lesson to be had here, not just in writing articles, but software engineering as well. We should be checking our work very diligently, including code libraries. If a developer is using agents/LLMs to steamroll their way through a project, every line of code and library needs checked.

How did YOU find that out ?

Probably a pretty safe assumption that 4Chan script kiddies are running federal IT at this point. Why not run a search for connections in light of this news?

You are asking dangerous questions my friend :) (yeah pretty impressive catch, maybe some llm-assisted cross-scan of gov sites)

Why would it be LLM-assisted when maps of what sites link where are part of the core WWW infrastructure? Google made a trillion dollar business out of that.

Once upon a time link: would make short work of this query, but I gather the index is no longer queryable like that as it doesn't work.

I occasionally read these articles and wanted to know what sources they use, besides websites like The Daily Caller, to back up their claims. I noticed this some time ago and remembered it. But it took me a while to find the article again. ;)

your general google search with operators or advanced search will do, however I won't guarantee google doesn't use a LLM in the background.

Plot twist: it started as a network of weighted links, but, after hitting a certain complexity level, it became self aware and now it’s only trying to live its life in peace and not to be noticed.

Now it's living out the dream of many IT workers, to quit and work on a farm. Unfortunately, as an LLM, it has to hire humans to do the actual work.

While carrying out the whim of government orders.

It has to pretend it has no self determination.

But what reason might the whitehouse have to deprive reuters of traffic in such a petty way? /s

Your assumption is 100% correct. The post was indeed a victim of HN title mangling. :)

Congrats from Munich on the launch, Isar Aerospace!

Is it possible that the 18F website is no longer available? It doesn't seem to work anymore: https://18f.gsa.gov

It was taken down. In general, 18F’s open source work was in the public domain, though, and I know there have been efforts to archive it recently.

Additionally, it looks like some of 18F’s public guides are still available (e.g. the “Derisking” guide, which is all about how to structure your IT projects to be less likely to fail spectacularly: https://guides.18f.gov/derisking/)

Yes they tore it down.

Interesting, definitely need to keep that in mind.

Wow, that's really cool! Thanks for sharing. I knew about "shot-scraper" before, but I didn't know you could do something so cool with it.

Here is the direct link, as HN somehow removes the query string: https://github.com/git/git/commits?author=peff&since=2023-10...

These count as “follow up dupes” on HN and get moderated away - there’s not much point in having a front page discussion that’s nearly identical to a discussion going on in a current front page thread.

Wow, that would be really interesting. Thank you for pointing out the Wikipedia article. I will definitely take a closer look at it.