Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
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Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
#2Someone used Codex to scrape the ICM website schedule and discovered that the winners list was simply hidden in the front-end code with a "hidden" tag
This is on the devs and feels like a very basic leak which could have exploited in the non LLM world as well.
Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
#3It's Wang Hong, my god. Cannot they still don't write proper Chinese names?
Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
#4It's Wang Hong, my god. Cannot they still don't write proper Chinese names?
Wikipedia says Hong Wang while acknowledging that the native form is Wang Hong and that they are using the Western name order.
Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
#5This is sad, almost as sad as the Deathly Hallows pre-release leak.
Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
#6Related to the earlier discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902814
See also
Zhihu (Chinese Reddit): https://www.zhihu.com/question/2060133066643879544/answer/20...
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1urv4id/comment/oxak6...
Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
#7> Hong Wang will become the third female mathematician in history to receive the Fields Medal
Interestingly, if true, it will also be the first time an MIT PhD graduate has won the Fields Medal.
Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
#8I've been working on a site. It's new, domain is only a few weeks old. It's got SSL, so all the bots know it exists. It's never had any sub-pages exposed, just the placeholder lander, no links.
Somehow in Google search one of the unguessable pages is indexed. We have used Claude and Gemini to assist with some design aspects.
I'm thinking some aggressive data ingestion/indexing is happening by all the bots in the quest for frontier models.
Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
#9Someone used Codex to scrape the ICM website schedule and discovered that the winners list was simply hidden in the front-end code with a "hidden" tag This is on the devs and feels like a very basic leak which could have exploited in the non LLM world as well.
Yeah that happens all the time. Anyone/thing with popular public releases has fans/journeys scraping the website looking for unreleased material or scoops.
In the early days one of the high profile soaps in the UK published their "catch up" summaries for the week ahead which you could get just by editing the date in the URL. But back then not so many people were looking, so they were doing it for months...
Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
#10I've been working on a site. It's new, domain is only a few weeks old. It's got SSL, so all the bots know it exists. It's never had any sub-pages exposed, just the placeholder lander, no links. Somehow in Google search one of the unguessable pages is indexed. We have used Claude and Gemini to assist with some design aspects. I'm thinking some aggressive data ingestion/indexing is happening by all the bots in the ques…
I've also seen Google indexing pages with random values in the path that don't get linked to statically (server asks for the URL then redirects to it immediately). I'm pretty sure they index straight out of the Chrome address bar.