Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by prayze 919 days ago
Did this suddenly get changed? Nothing but "# ,: # ,' | # / : # --' / # \/ />/ # /" is shown now.
3 comments

It's just your browser's HTML parser. Line 6:

  #                         / <//_\
This is being interpreted as a malformed HTML closing tag, which (according to the HTML5 parsing algorithm published by WHATWG) gets treated as a comment. The file doesn't contain any > past this point. This leaves the uncommented contents from lines 1–6:

  #                               ,:
  #                             ,' |
  #                            /   :
  #                         --'   /
  #                         \/ />/
  #                         /
Or, with whitespace collapsed:

  # ,: # ,' | # / : # --' / # \/ />/ # /
Which should be exactly what you observe.

Ref: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/white-space...

Weird. I think it did change. Google cache shows a 2229 line file: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...
Seems it might be looking at the referrer. Loading https://www.shopify.com/robots.txt from clicking the link shows the weird line while opening it in a private browser window shows the right one.
For some reason, "view source" gets the right list. Maybe a referer issue like someone else said.