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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with alienation? by kirubakaran on Friday January 16, 2009 @01:20PM (#436993)
No worries. HN does a case insensitive search at the time of registration. ( guess how I know ;) ) Long back it wasn't doing that, I think.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with alienation? by bd on Friday January 16, 2009 @02:48PM (#437162)
Heh. It reminds me of a MetaFilter hack, where somebody figured out you could register usernames with Unicode characters in them. Enough to say that there are some characters in some alphabets that look exactly like normal letters.

To save you the effort - you cannot do the same on HN :).

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with alienation? by anewaccountname on Friday January 16, 2009 @07:37PM (#437552)
Reminds me of the DNS hack where the same thing happened with DNS and browsers stopped displaying unicode domains entirely after a few too many wachovia.com lookalikes.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with alienation? by bd on Friday January 16, 2009 @10:12PM (#437691)
Aha, that's why Unicode snowman domain doesn't work for me.

http://www.☃.net/

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