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These are not the same article. I don't care at all about Kagi, but I care very much about Orion. Except I only know this from the other Orion article (the one

• pvg 4y ago
  They are effectively the same story, the dupes go by story sameyness rather than article identity.
  • beefman 4y ago
    Right. That's the policy that's bad.
    • pvg 4y ago
      You can try to come up with a better one but one based on identity runs up against the constraint of there being only 30 spots on the front page and the site's charter of interestingness.
      • beefman 4y ago
        The better policy is simple: the dupe system should only be used for identical articles. There is no harm in allowing two threads about the "same story" to ride out the front page nor is there any reason to combine their comments. Though unforeseen consequences of this suggested policy are possible I think they're unlikely and I don't believe anyone can reliably predict them without trying it. As dang likes to point out, internet discourse is mostly stateless. Combining duplicates that aren't really duplicates does nothing to improve this situation.
        • pvg 4y ago
          There is no harm Two (or what your suggestion implies, N) nearly identical interesting things on the front page is less interesting than two different interesting things on the front page. This is, in fact, a problem that afflicted HN more or less right off the bat as it does any crowdsourced link aggregator - Erlang days, etc. It is, as you say, entirely predictable and crushes interestingness.