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To be fair, the person who posted this instance is not the author of the library/old article you linked. I was wondering why this suddenly disappeared from the

by 40four 8y ago

To be fair, the person who posted this instance is not the author of the library/old article you linked. I was wondering why this suddenly disappeared from the front page. I guess it's possible they are doubling dipping with accounts? If not, they can't really help if someone else liked it and shared again. Anywho... looks fantastic, I'm certainly interested in trying this out! Speaks to the interest this project is gaining that it rose to the top twice! As someone who missed the post a few weeks ago, I am very happy to have caught this one.

dang 8y ago
Submissions can count as dupes when they cover the same story. The story here is substantially the same as 19210697, and the pattern I was trying to pointing out is visible at https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=August-Garcia https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=August-Garcia. (It has nothing to do with the creators of this project or the other one, but yes there has been more than one form of double dipping.) I agree that it is a cool project! Marking this post a dupe isn't to deny that. It's just that front page real estate is the scarcest resource on HN. More explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19103247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19103247. Not seeing all the cool things that show up on HN is a problem all of us have. One thing we made to try to mitigate this is https://news.ycombinator.com/front https://news.ycombinator.com/front, which you can get to by clicking 'past' in the top bar.
- 40four 8y ago
  Okay, I see what you're saying. Yeah, your updated response is more clear. I was confused before, but you are actually addressing August-Garcia. For sure seems like they are trying to capitalize on popular posts, and driving traffic to 256k website is clearly the goal. I'm definitely not a fan of this behavior & have ranted about similar activities in the past... lol Also, props to the 'past' feature. Great idea! I'm a big fan. Thanks for all the hard work!
  - dang 8y ago
    You're welcome, and thanks for the kind words.

by 40four 8y ago

dang 8y ago

Submissions can count as dupes when they cover the same story. The story here is substantially the same as 19210697, and the pattern I was trying to pointing out is visible at https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=August-Garcia https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=August-Garcia. (It has nothing to do with the creators of this project or the other one, but yes there has been more than one form of double dipping.) I agree that it is a cool project! Marking this post a dupe isn't to deny that. It's just that front page real estate is the scarcest resource on HN. More explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19103247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19103247. Not seeing all the cool things that show up on HN is a problem all of us have. One thing we made to try to mitigate this is https://news.ycombinator.com/front https://news.ycombinator.com/front, which you can get to by clicking 'past' in the top bar.

40four 8y ago
Okay, I see what you're saying. Yeah, your updated response is more clear. I was confused before, but you are actually addressing August-Garcia. For sure seems like they are trying to capitalize on popular posts, and driving traffic to 256k website is clearly the goal. I'm definitely not a fan of this behavior & have ranted about similar activities in the past... lol Also, props to the 'past' feature. Great idea! I'm a big fan. Thanks for all the hard work!
- dang 8y ago
  You're welcome, and thanks for the kind words.