In the HN FAQ, under "Are reposts okay?" > If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we b

In the HN FAQ, under "Are reposts okay?" > If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Usually you have to get lucky with the right time of day for something to actually take off the way it would otherwise (before it falls too far down "new"). Sometimes the staff will even email you asking if you can repost a link that "should have" taken off, but didn't because of bad timing. Personally I limit myself to three tries on posts I've spent time writing that haven't yet gotten out of the single digits.