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Generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and node.js

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 8 comments · first 2022-01-11 · latest 2026-05-16

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  1. …front of their entrepreneur acquisition that prevents accidentally exposing trade secrets [3]. [1] https://github.com/faker-js/faker [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/proceduralgeneration/comments/lf2n4... [3]…
    comment by Nzen · 2026-05-16 · in OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days
  2. …and dodo. The maintainer of MSW has been screaming for years for people to drop jest [1] [0] - https://github.com/faker-js/faker/blob/428ff3328b4c4b13ec29d... [1] - https://x.com/kettanaito/status/1746165619731382351#m
    comment by azangru · 2025-10-09 · in The React Foundation
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    German Devs Strip Faker.js Creator from License – I'm Suing
    story by _Marak_ · 2025-02-22 · 19 comments
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    Faker.js
    story by diogenesjunior · 2022-01-18 · 0 comments
  5. …than assuming that if someone makes a different decision they're stupid and/or incompetent. [0]: https://github.com/faker-js/faker/blob/main/package.json
    comment by trowawee · 2022-01-17 · in Faker.js is now a community controlled project
  6. …his ownership. Marak: https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/ https://www.npmjs.com/package/faker Post: https://github.com/faker-js/faker https://www.npmjs.com/package/@faker-js/faker Faker.js is not a trademarked term, so someone made a new…
    comment by BoorishBears · 2022-01-17 · in Faker.js is now a community controlled project
  7. …looked at this source in a while. But it seems the strings are still static, in the package: < https://github.com/faker-js/faker/tree/29234378807c414158886... >.
    comment by kemitchell · 2022-01-17 · in Faker.js is now a community controlled project
  8. It's open source: https://github.com/faker-js/faker/blob/main/LICENSE
    comment by jefftk · 2022-01-17 · in Faker.js is now a community controlled project
  9. …that simply, "The funding is attached to the project, not the current maintainer." Full details: https://github.com/faker-js/faker/discussions/56#discussionc...
    comment by PragmaticPulp · 2022-01-16 · in Faker.js is now a community controlled project
  10. faker.js => https://github.com/faker-js/faker | npm add -D @faker-js/faker colors.js => https://github.com/microsoft/rushstack/issues/3147#issuecomm...
    comment by Shinigami92 · 2022-01-11 · in Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps