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Apocryphon · 2022-04-29 12:34:36

Sounds like that actually happened, at least in one instance

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31207040

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tobr | karma 9868 | avg karma 5.28 · | 2019-01-10 10:52:26

That story is probably not true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11238921

mcguire | karma 18217 | avg karma 1.81 · | 2021-09-12 18:31:06

Your anecdote is false.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28201328

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cknoxrun | karma 505 | avg karma 3.66 · | 2020-12-12 02:47:47+00:00

It's actually a legitimate phenomenon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15643663

gboss | karma 421 | avg karma 4.68 · | 2021-03-11 01:16:21

I thought this was the case! A commenter on a previous thread said this was really unlikely [0], but I really believe it happens. Not sure how to prove it though.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20205969

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crubier | karma 1311 | avg karma 2.64 · | 2024-06-03 09:08:13

I commented below that I saw this happen firsthand to my friend.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40544353

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agustif | karma 904 | avg karma 1.36 · | 2020-10-02 17:44:50

Maybe it was this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24533808

prosaic-hacker | karma 164 | avg karma 1.91 · | 2022-12-11 10:10:27

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26410047

Sounded familiar.

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sedatk | karma 4557 | avg karma 2.78 · | 2023-08-12 15:35:54

No, that was my actual theory for what happened, but apparently not true at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37104012

harryh | karma 13836 | avg karma 3.21 · | 2019-10-25 22:53:08

I very strongly believe this to be the case. The details don't feel right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21359698

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verdverm | karma 6501 | avg karma 0.84 · | 2020-05-04 13:32:24+00:00

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23060083

Sounds similar to some things I read this weekend

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forgotmypw17 | karma 6284 | avg karma 1.96 · | 2020-12-06 03:59:35+00:00

Actually, evidence seems to point the other way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25314732

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hackuser | karma 12788 | avg karma 2.89 · | 2017-05-11 21:22:32

What you say may be more true than you think:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554889

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baxtr | karma 9677 | avg karma 3.1 · | 2019-09-14 12:49:39+00:00

I believed this, too. But it’s apparently not true...

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17067350

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dividedbyzero | karma 2256 | avg karma 2.26 · | 2022-11-11 18:37:29

Could it have been this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32985927

generic92034 | karma 517 | avg karma 1.53 · | 2023-10-09 11:55:10

And while that happens often enough, it is not what happened here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37822259

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speedgoose | karma 8135 | avg karma 2.13 · | 2021-06-21 20:34:45+00:00

It happens. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26759051

jacquesm | karma 227883 | avg karma 3.76 · | 2018-05-25 15:17:11+00:00

Maybe this guy was on to something after all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17147822

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lemming | karma 4817 | avg karma 4.52 · | 2011-06-06 15:04:59+00:00

I've never seen this happen myself, my information came from a previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1935641

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josephcsible | karma 22500 | avg karma 3.06 · | 2021-09-05 15:24:27

Turns out this wasn't true after all. See the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28412115, in particular https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28421543 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28421896.