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Strange that 4 users submitted the same story to HN within 2 days, and it resulted in 4 unique submissions instead of being aggregated to the OP's submission.

• Tomte 6y ago
  That's not strange, that works as intended. There is a luck component to submissions, not first one to submit wins. Although dang has mentioned in the past that he's thinking about a mechanism for the first submitter to share in some of the karma generated by later submissions.
  • tech-historian 6y ago
    That's not really true though. Sometimes when I submit stories, it just adds a point to an earlier submission posted by another user. It detects the duplicate properly.
    • Tomte 6y ago
      Only shortly afterwards, several hours to a day or so.