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Re:Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues... by Zak on Monday January 16, 2017 @06:49AM (#13409474)
I trust HN is suitably hardened

HN doesn't use a database.

Re:Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues... by mrskeltal on Monday January 16, 2017 @06:55AM (#13409494)
How does it store comments?
Re:Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues... by Zak on Monday January 16, 2017 @09:20AM (#13410079)
As files on disk. An old version is open source, available from http://arclanguage.org/install

It's written in Arc though, so it may take some effort to read.