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Link: https://readhacker.news/s/5GSi2 Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/5GSi2

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[โ€“] IcyPractice 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's a Telegram bot that filters top rated articles in news.ycombinator and it links them like that. You can click the 'comments' link and see for yourself.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Why not link directly to the hacker news post then? I'm always suspicious about redirect services like that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep, reposts bots are expanding.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@Penguincoder @IcyPractice Mute them and move on. Something i learned on Quora, Mute , Block , Report. not that anyone here uses Quora. Good life lesson though