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Duplicates are allowed and often stories are reposted on the weekend. Why would people who read source code for a living need a frilly marketing puff type site
by wolco 6y ago
Duplicates are allowed and often stories are reposted on the weekend.
Why would people who read source code for a living need a frilly marketing puff type site? Slashdot is still around if you wanted something different.
- dang 6y agoDuplicates are only allowed if a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html This one did though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23062072 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23062072. In such cases we add [dupe] at the top and bury the thread. That's not because we think it's a bad article or a bad thread! It's because front page space is the scarcest resource HN has (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20scarce&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) and curiosity withers under repetition (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20curiosity%20repetition&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).