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Thank you for the answer. Sorry for the post; I had quickly checked the guidelines before I posted, but I (think I) missed "Please don't post on HN to ask or

by gphilip 13y ago

Thank you for the answer. Sorry for the post; I had quickly checked the guidelines before I posted, but I (think I) missed "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com." (I thought this missing post was some kind of bug in HN but, for some reason, I didn't think of it then as "a thing I would want to tell you".)

dang 13y ago
I have written software that shows me the prior submissions from a given domain. I use it to decide whether to bury or kill stories as dupes. (You can't rely on URLs alone for this.) Looking at this list makes it easy to determine whether a story has already had a significant discussion within the last year. Perhaps one day we can add it to the server and give people a way to check this for themselves. (Edit: we eventually did this. Click on the site name after a title.) It'd also be a neat way for users to find old threads. HN's archives are rich. By the way, duplicate detection, which on HN is porous and largely an honour system, has been much misunderstood. In my opinion, it's one of several design master-strokes that PG came up with when he made this site. I should write about that sometime.
- gphilip 13y ago
  > Perhaps one day we can add it to the server and give people a way to check this for themselves. It'd also be a neat way for users to find old threads. HN's archives are rich. In the meanwhile: I find the new algolia hnsearch very useful and pleasant for this purpose. Typing in a few keywords from a story (and very often: from just the title) which I would like to submit, immediately tells me whether it has been submitted (and discussed!) in the recent past. This is great for "personal" use, and perhaps algolia hnsearch has an API which you can leverage for moderation?

by gphilip 13y ago

dang 13y ago

I have written software that shows me the prior submissions from a given domain. I use it to decide whether to bury or kill stories as dupes. (You can't rely on URLs alone for this.) Looking at this list makes it easy to determine whether a story has already had a significant discussion within the last year. Perhaps one day we can add it to the server and give people a way to check this for themselves. (Edit: we eventually did this. Click on the site name after a title.) It'd also be a neat way for users to find old threads. HN's archives are rich. By the way, duplicate detection, which on HN is porous and largely an honour system, has been much misunderstood. In my opinion, it's one of several design master-strokes that PG came up with when he made this site. I should write about that sometime.

gphilip 13y ago
> Perhaps one day we can add it to the server and give people a way to check this for themselves. It'd also be a neat way for users to find old threads. HN's archives are rich. In the meanwhile: I find the new algolia hnsearch very useful and pleasant for this purpose. Typing in a few keywords from a story (and very often: from just the title) which I would like to submit, immediately tells me whether it has been submitted (and discussed!) in the recent past. This is great for "personal" use, and perhaps algolia hnsearch has an API which you can leverage for moderation?