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OT: It looks like this is posted for the 4th time now: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lukasa.co.uk https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lukasa.co.uk
by alpb 10y ago
OT: It looks like this is posted for the 4th time now: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lukasa.co.uk https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lukasa.co.uk
- jsnell 10y agoIf you check the id numbers, you'll see that this was actually the first time it was posted :-P HN moderators will occasionally give stories that didn't get a lot of traction a second chance. To prevent people from wondering why a week old submission is on the front page, it'll show up with a fresh timestamp.
- dang 10y agojsnell's correct, and I'll add that reposts are ok on HN if an article hasn't had significant attention yet. 23 points and no comments (which a previous submission had) would normally count as significant attention, but we sometimes relax the criteria when an article is substantive and seems likely to interest the community. When we put stories in the second-chance pool (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and earlier posts linked from there), we try to pick the original submission as the one that reaps the benefit. I've marked this off-topic; now somebody post some relevant comments about operating systems and memory allocation so it has a bottom to sink to :)