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It can't be that hard to let a machine find out that these two links are basically the same. I'm not talking about programming a artificial general intelligence

• chc 13y ago
  Nobody's saying it's impossible. The point is that news.arc is more or less just a little project that Paul Graham works on in his free time, and the amount of features that could be implemented vastly outstrips the supply of Paul Graham's free time, so not every possible feature is going to be implemented.
  • kogir 13y ago
    For all intents and purposes it's only PG. I occasionally change security and performance related things, but not features.
  • krapp 13y ago
    But why even implement a duplicate link checker without putting more effort into parsing the uri string for obvious gotchas like whether there's a trailing slash, or extraneous but meaningless query parameters?
    • smartwater 13y ago
      Coding checks such as those are pretty tedious. It's not hard, and that's why it's not interesting.
      • krapp 13y ago
        Sure, but even with pet projects you can't expect everything to be fun. I'm just suggesting that if pg considers duplicate links a problem worth solving in his application, then the extra effort might be worth the tedium. And if he doesn't, then he doesn't.
        • smartwater 13y ago
          The fact that this question keeps coming up and it doesn't get changed indicates that it isn't a problem he cares about.