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We had one of these posted earlier today about AH buying YC:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7851238

I'm the one who wrote that. :) It was meant to be a joke to get some twitch reactions out of a few friends, but apparently spread like wildfire.

TechCrunch reached out earlier this morning. They are not happy with me.

Apologies for flagging it but it looked good enough that I thought some real damage might come of it. YC being implicated in a thing like that would have looked really bad.

You really shouldn't have used a real persons by-line there, that made it much more believable. Still, kudos for the prank, it was funny, especially the insane valuation.

Oh I wasn't the one who submitted it to HN, I really only meant for it to deceive my friends, haha. I understand though! Fine by me.

And thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. I've resolved it with the reporter in question, we're all good.

I was on mobile when I say this and didn't even notice the url. I can see how people on mobile atleast chrome can fall for stuff like this.

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