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Re:What 4chan thinks of HN by Havoc on Sunday November 17, 2013 @05:41AM (#6748381)
They forgot the billion *.js posts - with seemingly arbitrary nouns selected as names.

Or the ridiculous intentional mispellings in names...somehow skipping all the vowels & resemble some vaguely phonetic spelling. Twitter > twtr etc.

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Re:What 4chan thinks of HN by rblatz on Sunday November 17, 2013 @12:07PM (#6749655)
You mean stock ticker symbols?
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Re:What 4chan thinks of HN by Havoc on Sunday November 17, 2013 @12:52PM (#6749889)
No the names / urls. See here (and the comments on that article):

http://valleywag.gawker.com/silicon-valleys-stupid-name-prob...

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