[inovator]

"According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code."

And you guys believe that so call "specialist" without any proof?...What happened to HN? :/

[res0nat0r]

It fits the current meme here that anything related to the US government technology wise must automatically be evil and/or incompetent.

[paulrademacher]

Yup this is obviously bullshit.

If each LOC generated 16 bytes of native code, the executable would be 7.5GB.

[shard972]

It was good enough for the New York Times though?

[colinbartlett]

It's disheartening to think they actually took that statement and printed it without verification. This simple chart illustrates how foolish that was.

[fiatmoney]

Journalists are equal only to lawyers in their dislike of math.

[Lewton]

All the threads about this 500m line claim has been filled to the brim with people highly skeptical about the claim. No, "HN" does not believe the 500m LOC claim