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Re:Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit... by pfraze on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:44PM (#20688280)
It also means "talk"
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Re:Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit... by jersully72 on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:51PM (#20688379)
FWIW, "talk" is what came to my mind.

But it's social media though, so the other yakking will be involved...

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Re:Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit... by seandougall on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:45PM (#20688961)
I've only ever seen that spelled as "yak", so it took me a while to make that connection.
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Re:Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit... by joegahona on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @09:38PM (#20691996)
I thought "yak" was the bison animal. And that's what I thought of when I saw the name of this app -- not vomiting.
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Re:Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit... by parliament32 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @01:47PM (#20698006)
That's "yak"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yak

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