Practice Pinterest Coding Question | Real Coding Interviews

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Design a system to store pins with unique IDs, scores, and categories.
Prevent duplicate entries while efficiently grouping pins by their category.
Retrieve the top K highest-scoring IDs for a specified category without altering the underlying data structure.

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