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Noted. I have added "(2010)" to the title.

A diff that compares the old leaked source to the "new" one: http://pastebin.com/KkeLzb6q.

millions of pageviews/month

That is technically correct but does not covey the scale at which 4chan operates. According to http://www.4chan.org/advertise,

    Page impressions per month: 575,000,000;
    Unique visitors per month: 25,000,000;
    Posts per day: 1,000,000; 
    Alexa Traffic Rank: 836 (Global) & 371 (US)
    Quantcast Rank: 305 (US)
    Google PageRank: 6

instead I found a thread full of guys trying to build a physical version of their imaginary chinese-cartoon girlfriends

Between this and the movie "Her", where's the "waifu" (virtual girlfriend) startup?

Archived 4chan thread where the leak happened: http://rbt.asia/g/thread/S39865892.

-- Edit --

More logs got leaked at http://pastebin.com/7itGzitH. I have not read them yet, so cannot tell you if there is anything of value in there.

Can you calculate the average of those icons? I wonder if there is a pattern.

Cut it out. You are trolling. Your reference to "buttcoins" is a good indicator you're from /g/ and this isn't /g/.

Edit: FYI, http://rbt.asia/g/?task=search2&ghost=yes&search_text=dogeco....

I wonder what a similar poll about 4chan would say.

That list doesn't have http://logicalincrements.com/, which may be the best thing to come out of /g/. It's great for picking PC configurations.

The list of (supposedly substantial) things /g/ has made as compiled by /g/, today [1], is as follows:

1. http://aloonix.neocities.org/

2. https://github.com/notuncivil/host-as-image [2]

3. https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch

4. https://4chan-x.just-believe.in/

5. http://tox.im/

6. http://biebian.sourceforge.net/

The above list is in no particular order.

[1] https://rbt.asia/g/thread/S35615929#p35616305

[2] Full disclosure: this code is mine and I am the one who proposed it for that list. I also submitted a Show HN for it.

Don't get upset at the comments. They almost surely trolling from https://boards.4chan.org/v/ (NSFW). Look at, e.g., https://boards.4chan.org/v/res/202172198.

The ending to the article is touching. In light of that what I am about to say is going to sound all the more heartless and I expect to get downvoted for it but I think that it has to be said:

If you really want to get things done, consider not having children (yet).

In my experience this applies to both men and women in demanding technical fields. You may argue that having children is worth it in spite of what it may do to your career but that's a different argument.

Just FYI: the text of the parent's post is taken verbatim from a comment RMS once made but this text is probably best known as the most popular "copypasta" (reposted text) on 4chan's technology board (called "/g/" from the Japanese word for "technology"). You shouldn't reply to the poster in earnest.

Interestingly enough, /g/ is obsessed with RMS and the regulars' attitude towards him is the epitome of a love-hate relationship. The sheer number of images they've produced featuring him is quite impressive.

If they still favor ThinkPads on the ISS they can expect a pleasant Linux experience.

Perhaps you could build something like this using a social network known to be pirate-friendly, e.g., VK.com, as the music source?

Is there an extensible framework for processing Wolfram Alpha-like natural language queries (presented as text) locally on Linux?

On a related note, this is one of the reasons I prefer to use, and make, Apache 2.0-licensed software. Its terms are similar to those of BSD and MIT but it also includes a patent licensing clause.

It doesn't have rule 30.

    //default list of rules
    var populateRules = function() {
        rules = new Array(57,18,90,129,130,131,132,133);
    }

The battery may be a fire hazard.

>I want to stick said birth certificate into my purse and go to Arizona, and start pissing in the men's room everywhere I go.

If you found a few more dumb gender laws like this to exploit and went around obeying their letter it could make for good material for a documentary (might not be the best example but think Religulous).

>It 7zips the files and handles splitting and merging of large files?

Yes. It also handles the uploading and the downloading.

>Try apt-cache search libgd and you'll find the (single!) dependency is already packaged

If you actually try to compile and run s2png you'll see that it segfaults when you compile it in Ubuntu 12.10 (so also in Linux Mint 14) and 12.04, probably because it was written with libgd1 in mind. I had a few people try it and it only compiled to a usable binary in Fedora.

No, what you get in the end is valid PNG files. Here's one you can examine for yourself: http://pathg.com/i/1wI2a8kMG6.png. (Within it is an ISO of the QNX network demo disk from http://qnx.puslapiai.lt/qnxdemo/qnx_demo_405_network.iso)

That [1] is a bad comment but I'm not sure you can generalize about all of HN from it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5377591

So the lesson here might be to never visit 4chan's board on technology [1] and the like?

[1] https://boards.4chan.org/g/ (NSFW)