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HN submission form has an upper limit on characters for the link title. This may have forced the submitter to substitute 5000 for 5k.

We have a word for that: "around"

That's even longer. Why would I use more words to be less precise?

They mean the same thing.

Careful, this might devolve into speculation whether it was really 5000 or if they meant 5120.