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Previously posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12151146 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12151146

• chrisseaton 10y ago
  There's no comments there so not much point linking to it.
  • 0xmohit 10y ago
    Does that imply that HN creates a new link if a previous submission has no comments? The previous one was posted some 12 hours before this one.
    • dang 10y ago
      HN creates a new link after 8 hours if the previous post didn't get significant attention. It also treats different URLs as different stories, even if they only differ a little. This approach lets a lot of dupes through, but we do it that way because it's more important to let good stories have multiple chances at attention. Otherwise it's mostly a lottery which ones achieve liftoff from /newest. It's true that the convention here is only to post links to previous submissions when there are comments on them (or in rare cases, no comments but many points), since it's pointless to look at them otherwise.