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y-curioustoday at 12:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

Reminds me of this Indian GitHub tutorial on how to open a PR on GitHub. The video got millions of views and has flooded a specific repo with countless README update PRs of people (mostly Indian) trying to append their name to the README.

Article about it here: https://socket.dev/blog/express-js-spam-prs-commoditization-...


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efilifetoday at 2:36 PM

they flooded THE major server side js framework and it's happening to this day, every day. Express is something to backend what jQuery was to frontend 15 years ago