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This has been posted here before. I wonder how dupe-detection failed! I couldn't find the earlier submission in SearchYC.com but I am sure it was posted before.
by kirubakaran 18y ago
This has been posted here before. I wonder how dupe-detection failed! I couldn't find the earlier submission in SearchYC.com but I am sure it was posted before.
- tokenadult 18y agoMy wild guess, based on other examples, is that duplicate submission detection lapses after a certain interval, so that there can be fresh discussion of interesting topics. But I haven't checked the source code to see if that is indeed how it works. There is enough churn in membership here on HN that if the software lets a submission post as a new thread, I'm willing to treat it as a new thread. I try always to post canonical URLs when I submit links myself, the better to activate the duplicate detector if necessary. /metadiscussion
- kirubakaran 18y agoNot complaining... just surprised :-)
- chengmi 18y agoHad to go into the database for this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=58424 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=58424