this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2026

581 points (99.2% liked)

Programmer Humor

32608 readers

691 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

Feyter@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

BurningTurtle@programming.dev

pylapp@programming.dev

581

PSA Huggingface is scraping GitHub (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

126 comments fedilink hide all child comments

https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceCode/in-the-stack

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Commercial parody is commonplace fair use. If it surpasses the original... oh well.

The amount being used becomes negligible as the corpus grows. Filtering a billion webpages into one gigabyte means their average contribution is one byte. Play with the numbers all you like, it's gonna come out to less than a paragraph.

If we went full copyright maximalist, and criminally banned using anything but public-domain / BSD / CC0 works, the commercial impact would not be much different. The technology itself shifts the economics of text, images, video, and code.