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by specialist 3718 days ago
I'm pretty sure bitly dedupes.

They also have partnerships to do branded shortening. Bitly will happily generate shortened URLs for other domains, eg http://amzn.to/

As part of their content scrubbing, I suggest HN re-shortens URLs. Another +1 use case that bitly or other service could provide.