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There is also another post from 3 hours before this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544633 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544633

• oneeyedpigeon 11y ago
  How is that even possible? Edit: OK, since someone's going to downvote me for asking that question, I'll add a bit more context: Duplicate submissions are supposed to be ignored. The URLs for these two submissions appear to be identical, so my question stands: how has this happened?
  • detaro 11y ago
    AFAIK the duplicate finder was tweaked to only react to already discussed links, and I guess 3 comments didn't count as a "discussion".
  • brudgers 11y ago
    Perhaps both submitted URL's were different but resolved to the same URL by HN's software?
    • neogodless 11y ago
      So wouldn't HN's software detect "identical resolved URLs"?
  • pessimizer 11y ago
    Duplicate submissions haven't been ignored for a long time, and HN was even actively emailing submitters and asking them to resubmit stories. Now, from what I understand, the software is automatically resubmitting stories (or just renewing stories) that their algorithm says probably deserved more attention.
  • dang 11y ago
    It looks like a bug. We've merged the comments from the other thread to here. A side-effect is that a couple of comments have timestamps older than their parent—the author of the parent comment posted it twice, and we moved the older replies to the newer post.