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List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

21 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 4 stories, 17 comments · first 2012-03-09 · latest 2026-08-12

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  1. Good point. I am already checking against the naughty-words list from here: https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and...
    comment by ILIWYCMBgPicCha · 2024-03-05 · in Ask HN: List of Subdomains to Reserve
  2. "The Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus, used to train a trillion parameter LM in [43], is cleaned, inter alia, by discarding any page containing one of a list of about 400 “Dirty, Naughty, Obscene or Otherwise Bad Words”. This list is…
    comment by cratermoon · 2023-03-24 · in Microsoft's paper on OpenAI's GPT-4 had hidden information
  3. You many want to consider a naughty words filter. https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and...
    comment by superb-owl · 2022-06-08 · in Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words
  4. There are some popular bad words lists on GitHub that you can use. https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and...
    comment by tedmiston · 2022-06-03 · in Show HN: Idea ramen – a little different domain name generator
  5. The good news is that things like https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and... exist so getting a source of words to filter is easy enough. And converting numbers to letters isn't too bad. The hardest problem with the…
    comment by phamilton · 2021-10-07 · in The naughty username checking system used by Twitch
  6. I believe this is the word list that authors are objecting to the use of: https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and... The list does seem a bit... umm... oddly specific in places, probably due to its history as being…
    comment by jsnell · 2021-09-24 · in Minority voices ‘filtered’ out of Google Natural Language Processing models
  7. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a... is a summary of the paper that started it, full of actionable points – and co-authored with Emily Bender, no less! Also, if you're into the LessWrong mindset and are…
    comment by unhammer · 2021-01-20 · in Google is investigating the actions of another top AI ethicist
  8. Almost related: https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and...
    comment by montroser · 2020-05-24 · in The Big List of Naughty Strings
  9. Ah wow, thanks! Not sure how I missed that. For other interested parties, here's the key section: > Unfortunately, the majority of [the text in Common Crawl] is not natural language. Instead, it largely comprises gibberish or boiler-plate…
    comment by akie · 2020-02-25 · in T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer
  10. This is where I always chime in with a link to the List of Dirty, Nasty, or Otherwise Obscene Words on github. https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and... I originally found this list during a few frantic hours after I…
    comment by cvwright · 2017-04-05 · in Scunthorpe Problem
  11. I removed it: https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...
    comment by novapatch · 2016-05-12 · in Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search
  12. This is the most beautiful commit message I've read in a long time. https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen... Now what exactly is the thing it refers to?
    comment by clentaminator · 2016-05-12 · in Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search
  13. This reminds me of Shutterstock's open-source List of Dirty Naughty Obscene and Otherwise Bad Words: https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...
    comment by marc_omorain · 2016-05-12 · in Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search
  14. Did they even have any sort of filter? If they at least blacklisted these words [0], then that seems like a reasonable enough effort on its own. However, these developers would have had to be living in a bubble to not know about trolls…
    comment by scrupulusalbion · 2016-04-07 · in Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
  15. You can check the README. It's from ShutterStock, and it's their list of words to filter image suggestions. https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...
    comment by rschuetzler · 2016-04-06 · in List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words
  16. In recent years, I created a homework assignment for a security class where the student's job is to crack a set of password files. First easy, un-salted hashes, then salted hashes, ... etc. To illustrate the badness of using dictionary…
    comment by cvwright · 2016-03-23 · in An administrator accidentally deleted the production database
  17. Nice; sort of a programming complement to Shutterstock's _List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words_[0]. So helpful to have a bunch of minds working on useful lists like this. Good to see that GitHub passes this test! [0]…
    comment by hoprocker · 2015-08-10 · in Show HN: Big List of Naughty Strings for testing user-input data