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by bottega_boy 971 days ago
I've come across sobyte.net a few times now. Who's behind it? It's frequently updated with content that, at least to me, is very interesting. If it's just one person, I'd like to know how they approach it. Very impressive.
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As I've previously commented (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37236699), this website consists of content copied and translated from other Chinese websites, without permission (I've asked one author). The homepage is pumping out articles much faster than I would expect a person to be able to write them, and I found multiple articles with text stolen and translated from other people's writing, and code stolen verbatim. Flag and move on.
If this article is typical of their content, then they approach it by copy-pasting someone else's entire article into Google Translate and then publishing the output.