@zenhack @danluu The text is mostly about a specific way of playing that even top players don't usually engage in outside of tournaments.

@danluu I'm friends with this guy (and you can just ask him) and I expect he would say that these things are "not part of the game" and people don't do them them them because they are illegal or would cause the hotel not to host the tournament next year or would get the player DQed by the tournament organizer despite not being specifically mentioned in the rules. Here's a famous video of an afk player being killed at a big tournament https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G8oHukH_pE

@tedu @danluu This is a funny example because it is the opposite of what happened in this case. The author of the regex rejected empty author names but needed to accept them.

@danluu I think it would be common for people to write parsers that accept "some lines that are not author lines, then an author line, then some lines that are not author lines" rather than figure out the exact rules governing the lines that the code doesn't (as obviously) need to validate.

@hrbrmstr @danluu @tweedge The first Kagi result for the youtube query is savefrom dot net which is described in the post. It does not let you download videos. It does variously attempt to install malware or get you to sign up for a paid subscription.

@danluu The hn comment section about this post makes me think I should ask someone for a lobsters invite and never return to the orange web site.