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Thanks, I thought HN detects duplicate submissions and shows that it already exists. Thanks for the heads up anyway. Will have to do a check on HNSearch before

by r3570r3 15y ago

Thanks, I thought HN detects duplicate submissions and shows that it already exists. Thanks for the heads up anyway. Will have to do a check on HNSearch before putting up things.

ColinWright 15y ago
It's supposed to, and often does. In this case the URLs appear to be identical, so I don't know what's gone wrong. Possibly a restart, and the older item hadn't been loaded into memory. I'm pretty sure the algorithm only checks against URLs in cache.