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I think that the parent is referring to the Chrome console which has (IIRC) jQuery baked into it, even if jQuery isn't part of the actual page.

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Does it? I don't see it in mine. HN doesn't use jQuery and when I fire up my console, the $ variable is not overwritten with a jQuery object, also there is no jQuery variable available.

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