Well I am guessing posting on hacker news just before lunch time 11am PT is one of the good times to build momentum on a post (the time the current post was mad

Well I am guessing posting on hacker news just before lunch time 11am PT is one of the good times to build momentum on a post (the time the current post was made) and I am guessing that if a previous post did not get many votes it is not counted as duplicate TLDR you posted at a non optimal time so your post didn’t count