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		allenu on Oct 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API Honestly, this confused me. The number immediately made me think he was submitting fake orders for that amount. I don't know to read it any other way.

oh_sigh on Oct 23, 2020 [–]

My guess is that there is every possible combination of items that is added to the cart, and then the API response returns what items are unavailable/out of stock.

Honestly, I'm not in love with this post for HN. It seems like something done and communicated for twitter clout and is devoid of interesting details.

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