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by katastic 3013 days ago
Kind of like how that one NPM package took down like 14,000 other packages when someone took a DMCA request against an author's OTHER package and he just took them all down in protest--which took down their dependencies and their dependencies and ... "broke the world".

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/

The code in question was like 11 lines of code (with curly and spaces!!) for calculating left-hand padding for a syntax highlighting code box.