I believe you that the articles were different in that way, but I looked over the comments pretty closely (well, closely-ish) before merging the threads, and th

I believe you that the articles were different in that way, but I looked over the comments pretty closely (well, closely-ish) before merging the threads, and the two HN discussions seemed indistinguishable topic-wise. Otherwise I wouldn't have merged them. Sorry, I know it's annoying when your article is the one that 'loses' in a merge transaction. Hopefully we can eventually mitigate some of this with URL aggregation.