No, it's not just my opinion, it's how HN works, you can find lots of moderator comments about it. The thing in the FAQ about reposts is someone posting the sam

No, it's not just my opinion, it's how HN works, you can find lots of moderator comments about it. The thing in the FAQ about reposts is someone posting the same thing over and over. Different people posting the same story is perfectly normal, there can't possibly be a rule against that that would make sense. Lots of stories have many more than three reposts, big, popular stories can have dozens. They don't really matter until something catches and gets a thread. If you think the wired story or author's writeup (https://sites.google.com/view/compromptmized https://sites.google.com/view/compromptmized) would be a better link for this submission you can email hn@ycombinator.com with the better url and it will get fixed.