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stefankuehnel | 3 months ago

Just a note: the White House also uses archive.ph.

Search for “Americans are spending like never before: Retail sales are booming — up 5% over last year, far outpacing inflation — as Americans spend in record amounts.” [1]

The phrase “up 5%” links directly to archive.ph.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/the-economy-is-b...

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Shocka1|3 months ago

There is an important lesson to be had here, not just in writing articles, but software engineering as well. We should be checking our work very diligently, including code libraries. If a developer is using agents/LLMs to steamroll their way through a project, every line of code and library needs checked.

xwolfi|3 months ago

How did YOU find that out ?

nativeit|3 months ago

Probably a pretty safe assumption that 4Chan script kiddies are running federal IT at this point. Why not run a search for connections in light of this news?

kakacik|3 months ago

You are asking dangerous questions my friend :) (yeah pretty impressive catch, maybe some llm-assisted cross-scan of gov sites)

patcon|3 months ago

But what reason might the whitehouse have to deprive reuters of traffic in such a petty way? /s