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I posted this a week ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1810619 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1810619 Glad to see it on the front page, it's an ent

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• adambyrtek 16y ago
  That's what happens when a site doesn't have a single canonical URL for each resource. The same problem causes duplicates on delicio.us or other sites focused on links. Search engines deal with that by comparing actual content, maybe other services could take a similar approach. Of course in case of HN it's probably not worth the effort.
  • charlief 16y ago
    If it did have a single canonical URL, then the piece would be lost as the first one didn't make it to the front page in time. I think this is not only a submission identity problem, it is also a ranking problem as many great submissions are missed that would easily make it to top 20 if they had the seed votes needed. (A parallel to startups not getting the seed funding they need :) ?) That's not to say it is a big problem, as HN has quality and in almost every case has the best on the front page.