This doesn't help anything for manual solving, because there is no digit symmetry. My guess was, that coloin thought of a templates solution. However i don't know, how to do that manually without big effort. This was my try (don't take that seriously).
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| 4789 4689 46789 | 5789 c34 1 | 3679 56789 2 |
| 2789 b12689 3 | 25789 2589 5789 | 1679 4 15789 |
| 24789 5 14789 |b2789 6 34 | 1379 1789 c13789 |
+-------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------+
| 4589 1489 14589 | 156789 1589 2 | 14679 3 14579 |
|b23 7 1459 | 1569 1359 3569 | 8 12569 1459 |
| 6 c23 1589 | 4 13589 35789 |b1279 12579 1579 |
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| 4789 4689 46789 | 3 a12489 4689 | 5 b12789 14789 |
|c34589 34689 2 | 15689 7 45689 | 1349 189 13489 |
| 1 3489 45789 | 2589 b24589 4589 |c23479 2789 6 |
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Start with 1r7c5, mark 1's with a, 2's with b, 3's with c:
1r7c5, 2r7c8,r6c7, 3r6c2, 2r5c1,r2c2,r3c4,r9c5, 3r8c1,r9c7,r3c9,r1c5
Now no 4 is left in c5 => -1r7c5
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| 4789 4689 46789 | 5789 34 1 | 3679 56789 2 |
| 2789 b12689 3 | 25789 2589 5789 |a1679 4 15789 |
| 24789 5 a14789 |b2789 6 34 | 1379 1789 13789 |
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| 4589 a1489 14589 | 56789 1589 2 | 14679 3 14579 |
|b23 7 1459 | 569 1359 359 | 8 12569 1459 |
| 6 c23 1589 | 4 13589 35789 |b1279 12579 1579 |
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| 4789 4689 46789 | 3 2489 4689 | 5 12789 14789 |
|c34589 34689 2 | 1 7 45689 | 349 89 3489 |
| 1 3489 45789 | 2589 24589 4589 |c23479 2789 6 |
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Start with 2r5c1:
2r5c1,r2c2,r3c4, 3r6c2,r8c1,r9c7,r3c9,r1c5, 2r6c7, 1r3c3,r4c2,r2c6
No 6 in r2 left => -2r5c1
After those strange moves i finished with another one:
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|*789+4 *89+4 4789 | 5 34 1 | 379 6 2 |
| 279 6 3 | 2789 89 789 | 1 4 5 |
|#2479 5 1 | 279 6 a34 | 379 789 789 |
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|*89+4 1 4589 | 789 *89+5 2 | 6 3 479 |
| 3 7 459 | 6 159 c59 | 8 2 149 |
| 6 2 89 | 4 1389 *89+37 | 79 5 179 |
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|*789+4 b489 6 | 3 2 *89+4 | 5 1 *789 |
| 5 *89 2 | 1 7 6 | 4 *89 3 |
| 1 3 4789 | 89 4589 4589 | 2 789 6 |
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Impossible pattern 789 in the *-ed cells: (depending on, if 7 is in r1c1 or r7c1, you end up with a 5- or 9-cell oddagon for 89)
4r3c1 => 3r3c6,4r7c2,5r5c6,7r4c4, killing all extra candidates
=> -4r3c1, solves with skyscraper.