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adaml_623 on March 2, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Uber hauls GitHub into court to find who hacked da...

As a general rule headlines from 'The Register' should probably not be copied directly regardless of the rules on this website.

Actual headline: "FORK ME! Uber hauls GitHub into court to find who hacked database of 50,000 drivers"

JeremyNT on March 2, 2015 | [–]

There's actually an exception in the site rules[0] for the sorts of titles which are common on the Reg:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

fnordfnordfnord on March 2, 2015 | [–]

Why? What's your justification?

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