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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by thatsnotmepls on Thursday October 22, 2020 @05:08PM (#24863322)
> I'm currently placing an order worth $18,752 every minute

Do you have to have a cart in order query for broken machines? If not, why was it mentioned in the tweet?

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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by allenu on Thursday October 22, 2020 @07:51PM (#24864617)
Honestly, this confused me. The number immediately made me think he was submitting fake orders for that amount. I don't know to read it any other way.
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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by oh_sigh on Thursday October 22, 2020 @10:24PM (#24865423)
My guess is that there is every possible combination of items that is added to the cart, and then the API response returns what items are unavailable/out of stock.

Honestly, I'm not in love with this post for HN. It seems like something done and communicated for twitter clout and is devoid of interesting details.

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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by cinbun8 on Friday October 23, 2020 @12:50AM (#24866137)
It helps to say something outrageous like that to attract more attention.
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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by rashiq on Thursday October 22, 2020 @07:23PM (#24864413)
yeah you have to actually put the order into the cart in order to get the availability of the product
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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by royaltjames on Thursday October 22, 2020 @06:09PM (#24863812)
Because it's hilarious to quantify and state. Why ask ridiculous questions?
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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by kinkrtyavimoodh on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:53PM (#24865026)
Because it's a meaningless number. If he is actually placing an order for that amount every minute, it would be a useful number (and he would be an asshole for making so many fake orders and filling their system with garbage metrics). If he placed ice-creams in the cart for 8000 stores, then he should give that number. The dollar value is a completely pointless number in this case, and was done purely for clickbait.
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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by cphoover on Thursday October 22, 2020 @10:17PM (#24865392)
Should be simple enough to filter his IP address out unless he proxied his requests right?
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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by jackric on Thursday October 22, 2020 @06:55PM (#24864166)
Because it's one extra feather on the scales of increased cynicism about what you see online. Clickbait culture is toxic
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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by tacLog on Thursday October 22, 2020 @07:41PM (#24864549)
Legitimate question, how and why is clickbait culture toxic?

I am not creating it or defending it. I am just a little confused what you mean by that exactly.

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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by general_pizza on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:20PM (#24864840)
Not original commenter but I think jackric already alluded to the increased cynicism that develops from clickbait. Personally, when I see so many ppl giving up honest and nuanced statements/opinions for hyperbole in order to gain views/likes, it's disappointing.
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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by jackric on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:13AM (#24869699)
Raises the noise in the signal-to-noise ratio of a browsing experience. I may pass over reading a useful truthful article because I'm trained to dismiss its title as misleading.
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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by Aeolun on Thursday October 22, 2020 @06:17PM (#24863875)
That’s one word to describe it.

Personally I find it to be in spectacularly bad taste.

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