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page content hash Change one byte. regex match Now we get into ship-of-theseus arguments. What counts as the "same" article? 99 percent? 51 percent? What
by sbierwagen 13y ago
page content hash
Change one byte.
regex match
Now we get into ship-of-theseus arguments. What counts as the "same" article? 99 percent? 51 percent?
What if you resubmit a blog post that's picked up 150 more comments since it was last posted? How would HN tell the comments apart from the article text?
What if someone submits a blog post that heavily quotes another article that's been submitted, in the process of rebutting it, and ends up being a 80% match?
What if you include the full text of moby dick, in a display:none <div>? What if the page loads the text of the article with javascript? Would the HN submissionbot have to render CSS and javascript?
- gjm11 13y ago> Change one byte. Most resubmissions are submitted by people other than their authors, who are typically not in a position to change any bytes of the content. In the present case, speaking as the last person to submit this one (more than two years ago), I don't see that there's any harm in it at all. If this is still interesting two years since it was last discussed on HN -- which clearly it is -- then good for the submitter, who has provided the HN audience with something interesting to read.
- MaulingMonkey 13y agoThe slightest spec of dynamic content makes this approach brittle at best, author or not.
- DCoder 13y agoYou probably meant "speck", not "spec".