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Feature request for the submit page: live AI fuzzy suggestions of URLs to prevent dupe submits.

• dang 5y ago
  It's important to understand that this submission doesn't count as a dupe by HN's standards. On HN, reposts are fine after a year or so, and/or if an article hasn't had significant attention before (the latter isn't the case here, but often is). https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html People post links to past discussions are not because they're bad (look at all those reposts!) but because they're good (wow, interesting comments from the past!) - at least in the best case. Because there's so much randomness in what gets noticed on /newest, overzealous dupe detection would prevent many good articles from ever getting discussed. That would be a poor trade for better deduplication! HN's dupe detector is therefore left porous on purpose (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20porous&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). We will probably implement karma sharing amongst the various submitters of an article, though, at least when it's a first-time discussion.
  • failwhaleshark 5y ago
    Interesting. Maybe there ought to be a Respin HN type which can quote and encapsulate a previous item with semantic links. That way, there would be fewer unconnected "dots" requiring manual previous item comments.
• amw-zero 5y ago
  No thank you. It's perfectly fine to discuss something that's been discussed before. I get something new out of this paper every time I read it. We are all learning and growing every day. The conversation wasn't complete just because this has been discussed before.