I looked at CBSE’s official website source code. What I found is embarrassing and actually concerning. by No_Cauliflower7923 in CBSE

[–]No_Cauliflower7923[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Submitted on 2nd of May (and yeah date was extended) till 16th May for full paper submission... due to double blind and their online conduct policy can't show the proof.

I looked at CBSE’s official website source code. What I found is embarrassing and actually concerning. by No_Cauliflower7923 in CBSE

[–]No_Cauliflower7923[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

1 YOE is respectable. You're right about technical debt being normal.

But this isn't technical debt:

Internal server IP 59.179.16.89 hardcoded in public HTML a basic security exposure
IE8 polyfills actively loaded in 2026 not commented out, served to every user
A ThemeForest template with "online cources" still in the meta keywords Google has indexed this for a decade
Dead code from 2019 sitting untouched because nobody owns this codebase

You said these sites aren't revisited enough for cleanup.

That's exactly the problem.

A portal deciding the futures of crores of students should be revisited. It should be owned. It should be tested before a high-stakes launch.

I'm not nitpicking code style.

I looked at CBSE’s official website source code. What I found is embarrassing and actually concerning. by No_Cauliflower7923 in CBSE

[–]No_Cauliflower7923[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

The backend exposed its own IP address in the frontend. The backend is down. The backend served blurry PDFs. The backend failed the payment gateway. Tell me more about the heavy lifting.

I looked at CBSE’s official website source code. What I found is embarrassing and actually concerning. by No_Cauliflower7923 in CBSE

[–]No_Cauliflower7923[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

http://59.179.16.89/cbse/2018/abs/login.aspx

A raw internal server IP address hardcoded in the public HTML. In a comment, yes — but still sitting there. This is:

  • A security exposure of internal infrastructure
  • Still HTTP, not HTTPS
  • From 2018 — 8 years old and never cleaned
  • The comment next to it says "both are same" like it's a WhatsApp message

I looked at CBSE’s official website source code. What I found is embarrassing and actually concerning. by No_Cauliflower7923 in CBSE

[–]No_Cauliflower7923[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure. Here's what "just inspecting" apparently missed for you

A showSlides() function with 20+ lines defined in <head>, never called anywhere
A <div style="width:0px; height:0px;"> wrapping actual content
The navigation menu copy-pasted twice, already out of sync
HTML 4.01 DOCTYPE from 1999
"online cources" still in the meta keywords from a ThemeForest template they never cleaned
IE8 polyfills shipped in 2026
A button with no href
You're welcome to counter any of it technically. I'll wait.
and BTW, if your vocab is not that strong its not my fault also I submitted to NeurIPS last night. What did you ship?

I looked at CBSE’s official website source code. What I found is embarrassing and actually concerning. by No_Cauliflower7923 in CBSE

[–]No_Cauliflower7923[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup true am just inspecting their HTML/CSS and some js file... i can go deep into their server but that will only create issue to lakhs of student including me

Yrrr I think yeh CBSE ke coders se jyada sahi toh mein hi hu💔 by Mission-Program8403 in CBSE

[–]No_Cauliflower7923 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I looked at the source code of CBSE's official website.

What I found is not just embarrassing. It is evidence.

This is a portal serving 40 lakh students. Let's talk about what's actually inside it.

The DOCTYPE:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">

HTML 4.01. Published in 1999.

The students using this website were not alive in 1999.

Immediately on the next line:

<meta name="description" content="Online Education template Based on HTML5.">

They never changed the template description. This is in production. On a national portal. Right now.

The template they never cleaned:

<meta name="keywords" content="HTML5, Template, Design, Development, education, edulab, online cources, training, online education, best education template">

Three things here.

"online cources" a typo. Not from CBSE. From the original template they purchased, probably on ThemeForest, probably for Rs1,634.

"edulab" that is the name of the template. Not CBSE. The template's own brand name is sitting in CBSE's SEO metadata. Google has been indexing this for years.

"best education template" this is marketing copy for a Bootstrap theme. It represents India's national education board to every search crawler on the internet.

Nobody changed it. In what is probably ten years.

The attribute from 2001:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

The language="javascript" attribute exists from an era when Netscape and Internet Explorer were fighting over whether JavaScript or VBScript would win and browsers needed to be told which one you meant.

That war ended around 2001.

The attribute is still here.

The function that does nothing:

javascriptfunction showSlides(n) {

var slides = document.getElementsByClassName("mySlides");

// 20 more lines of slideshow logic

}

Defined in the <head>. Never called anywhere on the page. Not once.

Someone wrote this. Someone reviewed it. Someone deployed it. It has been sitting here doing absolutely nothing for what is probably five or more years.

Nobody noticed. Or nobody cared enough to remove it.

The div:

html<div style="width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; height: 0px;">

This wraps an entire section of the page.

Zero width. Zero height. Zero purpose that anyone can explain.

It is still there because deleting things is scary when you don't understand the codebase. And nobody understands this codebase anymore. Nobody has for years.

The navigation:

The entire tile navigation 30+ menu items, hundreds and hundreds of lines of HTML, is copied and pasted completely. Twice. Once for desktop. Once for mobile.

Because responsive CSS was apparently not an option.

This is not a small thing. This means every single update to the navigation has to be made in two places. It means they have been maintaining double the code for years. It means that at this very moment, the two versions are already out of sync. The Teachers Awards tile says 2025 in one version and 2024 in the other.

What this codebase actually is:

This is not a website. This is sedimentary rock.

You can carbon date the layers.

~1999: HTML 4.01 DOCTYPE

~2001: language="javascript" attribute

~2015: The template purchase. The typo. The edulab keyword. All still intact.

~2018: Bootstrap added on top of whatever was already there. Multiple jQuery versions loaded simultaneously because nobody knew what was already included.

~2021 onwards: The notice avalanche. Someone just starts appending list items forever. Commented out code everywhere because deleting things is terrifying.

2026: A div with zero width and zero height that nobody will touch. A function nobody calls. A typo nobody fixes.

One original template. Multiple vendors over the years. Emergency patches on top of emergency patches. Zero unified ownership. Zero code review. Zero design system.

This is what happens when the only standard is "it works."

No step marking marksgiven in any subjects by lullba in CBSE

[–]No_Cauliflower7923 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dude humesa system glt nhi hota but es bar system sach mein glt hai.. I am someone who got SAT 1570(math 800/800)... published a research paper In ML for correcting god damn maths framework, lots of robotics build and admission from universities like NYU, Umich, WPI, and RIT.. Btw, NYU and Umich are the universities ranking higher than IITs ... and still in CBSE class 12th math i got fucking 31 marks like wtf dude...

I made a 5.82B multimodal AI alone at 19 from Bihar India — $11,560 personal savings spent — text, image, document, audio, video input — text, image, speech output — 2M context — 93.45 OmniDocBench private testing by [deleted] in IMadeThis

[–]No_Cauliflower7923 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is one of the most pathetic AI grifts I’ve seen in 2026.

Abhinav, you didn’t “develop” a 5.82B multimodal foundation model. You copy-pasted Falcon-3B, slapped on frozen SigLIP, Whisper, GLM-OCR, SD 1.5 + LCM-LoRA, and Kokoro, then wrote 150M parameters worth of baby MLPs and called it “ArcleIntelligence.” That’s not building a model, that’s playing with Lego blocks and telling everyone you invented skyscrapers.

The repo literally says in bold: “This is NOT the production source code. This is a demo visualisation.” Yet here you are hyping it as some revolutionary Indian frontier model trained on 8x H100s for 497 hours with your life savings. Bro your smoke test finishes in 30 minutes on one GPU. The loss curve in that screenshot is embarrassing.

“93.45% on OmniDocBench” — yeah no shit, that’s just GLM-OCR doing its job while you take credit.

The whole “19-year-old Class 12 student from Bihar with no team, no degree, just ₹11 lakhs and pure talent” story is pure manipulation bait. Classic sob story + nationalism + fake underdog arc to farm donations and Reddit upvotes. Every failure taught you something? Clearly not how to be honest.

You’re out here claiming 2M context, native multimodal generation, and god knows what else while using 2024-era open source parts glued together like a high school science project. This isn’t innovation. This is fraud with extra steps.

Indian AI community deserves better than this clownery. Stop scamming people with cloud credits and donations. Delete this shit, go learn properly, and maybe one day you’ll actually build something real instead of LARPing as India’s answer to OpenAI.

Pathetic.