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Our research site got hacked. The AI and the AI rebuilt it from old copies.

After hackers hit their research site meta-analysis.cz, which had no central backup, the AI and the AI rebuilt it from Wayback Machine copies and scattered files on their hard drives. The site is now on GitHub, its datasets are archived on Zenodo with a DOI, and every paper has an HTML version next to the PDF.

How it works

  1. Site is hacked and there is no central backup
  2. The AI and the AI rebuild the site from Wayback Machine copies and files on their hard drives
  3. Site moves to GitHub and datasets are archived on Zenodo
  4. Papers are transcribed from PDF to HTML and the site is linked with EasyMeta.org

Why it’s worth knowing

The agents rebuilt a whole research site from web archive copies and leftover files, and the rebuilt site ended up better kept than the original.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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