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seems like a dup of http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1554687 http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1554687 there's a ton of comments already, BTW
by ifesdjeen 16y ago
seems like a dup of http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1554687 http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1554687
there's a ton of comments already, BTW
- chopsueyar 16y agoIs there no HN filter for previously submitted URLs?
- jcl 16y agoThere is. But these two URLs differ, even though they point to the same content.
- chopsueyar 16y agoWe need a content filter. This article, the blog post on Manhattan tipping the host/hostess for priority seating, the guy who did the driving traffic experiments on the highway, and the guy who built his own computer out of ICs and was an English major, IIRC. Just to name a few...
- rlivsey 16y agoIt's not the usual case of extra fluff in the URL causing the uniqueness check to fail, they are significantly different and only following the link would show them as the same thing. Looks like this one is the canonical URL vs the one I posted previously, or he's updated his blog software and the URLs have changed. I would have thought I'd have noticed the redirect. The uniqueness checker could follow links & redirects to check for duplicates, or maybe simply a note on the submission page along the lines of: please search Google for 'site:news.ycombinator.com "article title"' to make sure this hasn't already been posted.
- lotharbot 16y agoIs ycombinator.org an official mirror site? I followed a couple more links there, and it decided it wanted my login details. This gives me pause...
- dangrossman 16y agoBoth domains are registered to pg
- nodata 16y agoThat alone doesn't make it safe though. DNS returns the same ip to me at least, so two plus points so far. Still this is a red flag, they should choose a canonical url and stick with it.