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		its-summertime 53 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program sl... I don't think I'd ever want someone to consider the hacker news audience when writing a post

dwedge 53 days ago [–]

A company I used to work at would write posts, put it on hacker news, post the HN link in slack and ask everyone with an account to upvote it

frou_dh 53 days ago | [–]

I'm guessing the HN backend detects "voting rings" like that who often vote together.

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