For my own learning I don't care to look at or use it. But I did stumble upon a tool that has about half the archived problems published on github.
Is this reportable? Or should I just ignore and move on.
Found published solutions beyond Problem 100
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Re: Found published solutions beyond Problem 100
Over the many, many years, the team have spent huge amounts of time developing and refining problems for publication. We provide them absolutely free and one of the only requests we make is to respect our rule about not ruining problems by publicly publishing or sharing answers/solutions beyond the first 100 problems. They know what they're doing and simply don't care. Some kind of gratitude, eh? Thank you for being concerned and disappointed, but we've found it is best to just move on.

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Re: Found published solutions beyond Problem 100
I sympathize with the Project Euler Problem Development team's position on this matter. There are times I felt the same as the PE Team and would try not to use the available solutions on the web. Then, I did a 180 degrees turn and decided that struggling for the 'a-ha' moment was intellectual masochism, and so, I fully supported efforts on the web to collect answers to Project Euler problems. Now, I did a 180 degrees turn again and my position is: try solving a PE problem, if you can solve it, yeah! Otherwise, relax and move on to another preferably easier problem or do something else all together. My advice is: these problems are hard, do not be discouraged if you cannot solve all of them or even a large fraction of them. Solving Project Euler problems should be a fun relaxing activity, not something that induces stress. Remember: at the end of the day no one cares how many Project Euler problems you solved, the only thing that matters is: did you have fun? (Jesse to Brian after the first race in Fast and the Furious).