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Re:The Hardest Tarball? by bartvk on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:23AM (#50441680)
This guy, what a hero. He even included a little graphic to show how this "hardest tarball" looks like.

At the bottom, there's a link to much more edge cases.

It reminds me of this beauty: "Parsing JSON is a Minefield" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16897061

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Re:The Hardest Tarball? by weryberl5 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:20PM (#50443319)
TIL there are different hardness for tarballs...
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