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		oneeyedpigeon 21 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How they clean the balls in a ball pit How does this even happen? I assumed it was bad metadata in the article (which is usually the cause of this problem on social media in general) but everything there looks fine.

rcxdude 21 days ago [–]

HN basically has some regexes it automatically applies to titles. Then sometimes it gets adjusted afterwards when the result turns out to be nonsense.

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