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Re:Empty NPM package '-' has over 700k downloads by jeffalyanak on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @03:54AM (#28046707)
In the article they hypothesize that the creation of the package may have been a typo or another form of accident.

Since the content suggests it was generated by a script, there may have been an error in the input to the script or in the script itself.

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Re:Empty NPM package '-' has over 700k downloads by tored on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @04:50AM (#28046993)
Maybe, but the project does have an open issue created and edited multiple times by the developer

https://github.com/parzhitsky/-/issues/1

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