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Ghost Cut: why cut and paste is broken everywhere

A Textualize blog post dissects the "ghost cut" problem — where a cut operation appears to succeed but the clipboard content is lost or overwritten by another process before the user can paste it. The author argues that clipboard management is fundamentally broken across Windows, macOS and Linux. The post gathered 18 points and 10 comments on Hacker News.

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