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My theory: The admins were trimming a whole bunch of submissions about Musk's takeover that all appeared at once, to try to force everything into one mega-thread submission. Everyone saw the news/tweet and rushed to HN to be the one who picks up all those precious HN karma points!

In any event, don't worry about it! There are other sites on the internet.

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> In any event, don't worry about it! There are other sites on the internet.

Any suggestions? Sometimes I peek back at Slashdot. Otherwise Hacker News is my goto aggregator.

good theory, would be interested why that'd cause a 502 though

I think it means there were 502 duplicate submissions. We're down to only 200 so it should be smooth from here on out.

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