A mysterious, one-letter npm package named "-" sitting on the registry since 2020 has received over 700,000 downloads. What's more? The package contains no functional code, so what makes it score so many downloads? Inside the npm package "-" An npm package called "-" has scored almost 720,000 downloads since its publication on the npm registry, since early 2020. There's only one version of the pac
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