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		anigbrowl 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Fli... Probably because the HN hug of death looks like a DDOS attack.

superkuh 3 months ago [–]

Probably because they're using the cloudflare defaults which are terrible like everyone else.

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