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Anyone else seeing this post as the 1st and 2nd link on the front page of HN?

by davidrusu 12y ago

nicklovescode 12y ago
yes
icebraining 12y ago
Yes! And with different points, too.
- ramidarigaz 12y ago
  Looks like they diverged. Lots of duplicate comments. Edit: Nope. All comments show on both.
  - 0x0 12y ago
    The comment links are in fact the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9097404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9097404
rosser 12y ago
Yes. With the same URL for both discussion and article, though with differing scores and comment counts.
- quacker 12y ago
  I notice that one submission is "canonical" for the flag/unflag bit. You can flag one of the two submissions, and the "unflag" will show up on the other submission.
  - krapp 12y ago
    Maybe Hacker News is budding. Is it spring already?
hcarvalhoalves 12y ago
It's a huge page. Maybe HN took a while to read the URL and the OP ended up double-posting.
- davidrusu 12y ago
  But they both link to the same comments section
  - icebraining 12y ago
    And they seem to link to the same URL, which HN is supposed to prevent (for submissions created within a short period).
JoshTheGeek 12y ago
Yep, with different numbers of comments.
WestCoastJustin 12y ago
In case is gets fixed, here's what I see, to help diagnose the bug [1]. Both posts point to https://github.com/golang/go/commit/b986f3e3b54499e63903405c90aa6a0abe93ad7a https://github.com/golang/go/commit/b986f3e3b54499e63903405c..., have the same HN item id=9097404, but different comments counts. [1] http://i.imgur.com/xATOXPb.png http://i.imgur.com/xATOXPb.png
- jdoliner 12y ago
  This must be the new and improved "eventually consistent HN" that dang has been talking about.
girvo 12y ago
I've seen it before, a couple weeks ago, but it disappeared rather rapidly last time.
vezzy-fnord 12y ago
The same is true for the "C# Edit and Continue and Make Object ID Improvements in CTP 6" story, presently at #25 and #27.
dmcginty 12y ago
I'm also seeing duplicates of the 'Add "Magic" to Your Business' post on the front page.
JoblessWonder 12y ago
I'm seeing the same thing with this post as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9096843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9096843
- bshimmin 12y ago
  It's the smart quotes.
  - eric_h 12y ago
    Ha. It's always the smart quotes. They've caused me so many headaches over the years it's amazing to me that they are still actively supported and implemented in any software. What value do they even bring? #DeathToSmartQuotes
    - Alupis 12y ago
      Smart quotes tend to cause a lot of problems... especially since they don't just convert to a standard quote in Unicode, etc... [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Curved_quotes_and_Unicode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Curved_quotes_an...
      - krapp 12y ago
        User content posted from a word processor directly into a textarea field = much suffering.
    - dang 12y ago
      > It's always the smart quotes. #DeathToSmartQuotes This is pure kogir bait (he is your passionate co-positionist), but as far as we can tell, it wasn't the smart quotes.
osw 12y ago
The second post wasn't there for the first 30 minutes or so, it just appeared out of nowhere, no idea why.
dang 12y ago
Looking into it now. Edit: hopefully fixed now. Will edit this comment later when we figure out what happened. Ok, we figured out what happened. A background process that is upgrading old stories to a new data format went rogue and made multiple copies of a few stories in memory. Apparently it agrees with some of you that HN could use more stories about Go. Sorry for the error.
pessimizer 12y ago
Also, one is marked as having exactly double the number of comments and points as the other.
- andrewchoi 12y ago
  Not for me anymore: http://imgur.com/XM8xmEp http://imgur.com/XM8xmEp
  - pessimizer 12y ago
    When the double point/reply relationship ended, the comments sections also diverged. This is how it looked while the comments were still identical: http://tinypic.com/r/vn2u0i/8 http://tinypic.com/r/vn2u0i/8

Anyone else seeing this post as the 1st and 2nd link on the front page of HN?

nicklovescode 12y ago

yes

icebraining 12y ago

Yes! And with different points, too.

ramidarigaz 12y ago
Looks like they diverged. Lots of duplicate comments. Edit: Nope. All comments show on both.
- 0x0 12y ago
  The comment links are in fact the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9097404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9097404

rosser 12y ago

Yes. With the same URL for both discussion and article, though with differing scores and comment counts.

quacker 12y ago
I notice that one submission is "canonical" for the flag/unflag bit. You can flag one of the two submissions, and the "unflag" will show up on the other submission.
- krapp 12y ago
  Maybe Hacker News is budding. Is it spring already?

hcarvalhoalves 12y ago

It's a huge page. Maybe HN took a while to read the URL and the OP ended up double-posting.

davidrusu 12y ago
But they both link to the same comments section
- icebraining 12y ago
  And they seem to link to the same URL, which HN is supposed to prevent (for submissions created within a short period).

JoshTheGeek 12y ago

Yep, with different numbers of comments.

WestCoastJustin 12y ago

In case is gets fixed, here's what I see, to help diagnose the bug [1]. Both posts point to https://github.com/golang/go/commit/b986f3e3b54499e63903405c90aa6a0abe93ad7a https://github.com/golang/go/commit/b986f3e3b54499e63903405c..., have the same HN item id=9097404, but different comments counts. [1] http://i.imgur.com/xATOXPb.png http://i.imgur.com/xATOXPb.png

jdoliner 12y ago
This must be the new and improved "eventually consistent HN" that dang has been talking about.

girvo 12y ago

I've seen it before, a couple weeks ago, but it disappeared rather rapidly last time.

vezzy-fnord 12y ago

The same is true for the "C# Edit and Continue and Make Object ID Improvements in CTP 6" story, presently at #25 and #27.

dmcginty 12y ago

I'm also seeing duplicates of the 'Add "Magic" to Your Business' post on the front page.

JoblessWonder 12y ago

I'm seeing the same thing with this post as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9096843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9096843

bshimmin 12y ago
It's the smart quotes.
- eric_h 12y ago
  Ha. It's always the smart quotes. They've caused me so many headaches over the years it's amazing to me that they are still actively supported and implemented in any software. What value do they even bring? #DeathToSmartQuotes
  - Alupis 12y ago
    Smart quotes tend to cause a lot of problems... especially since they don't just convert to a standard quote in Unicode, etc... [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Curved_quotes_and_Unicode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Curved_quotes_an...
    - krapp 12y ago
      User content posted from a word processor directly into a textarea field = much suffering.
  - dang 12y ago
    > It's always the smart quotes. #DeathToSmartQuotes This is pure kogir bait (he is your passionate co-positionist), but as far as we can tell, it wasn't the smart quotes.

osw 12y ago

The second post wasn't there for the first 30 minutes or so, it just appeared out of nowhere, no idea why.

dang 12y ago

Looking into it now. Edit: hopefully fixed now. Will edit this comment later when we figure out what happened. Ok, we figured out what happened. A background process that is upgrading old stories to a new data format went rogue and made multiple copies of a few stories in memory. Apparently it agrees with some of you that HN could use more stories about Go. Sorry for the error.

pessimizer 12y ago

Also, one is marked as having exactly double the number of comments and points as the other.

andrewchoi 12y ago
Not for me anymore: http://imgur.com/XM8xmEp http://imgur.com/XM8xmEp
- pessimizer 12y ago
  When the double point/reply relationship ended, the comments sections also diverged. This is how it looked while the comments were still identical: http://tinypic.com/r/vn2u0i/8 http://tinypic.com/r/vn2u0i/8