It doesn't matter. And there is nothing wrong with cross-posting stuff on HN. HN is deliberately designed to discourage long-form original material, so everyth

It doesn't matter. And there is nothing wrong with cross-posting stuff on HN. HN is deliberately designed to discourage long-form original material, so everything submitted here has to have been posted somewhere else. Why repost stuff here? A. Because you think that parts of the HN community might otherwise not see it, because it's buried in a sea of cruft on other sites and because some of us simply don't read other aggregators; B. Because you are wondering what the HN community might write in comments. These are exactly what HN is for so there's nothing wrong with encouraging it. Of course, if you post A-1 Reddit-quality linkbait here some of it will inevitably get upvoted to the front page, just as water flows downhill, and this will be taken as a harbinger of doom. This, too, is our tradition.