Yep. The '?phrase=ycombinator' appended to the URL makes Hacker News think a different page is being submitted than last time. It's a way the algorithm can be t

Yep. The '?phrase=ycombinator' appended to the URL makes Hacker News think a different page is being submitted than last time. It's a way the algorithm can be tricked to allow more than one shot at the front page. In this case it was not deliberate, it seems.