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See also, previous discussion 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8275970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8275970 (138 comments)
by lstamour 11y ago
See also, previous discussion 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8275970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8275970 (138 comments)
- carsonreinke 11y agoThat is annoying
- lstamour 11y agoI'm not suggesting you shouldn't discuss it again here, obviously. Just that as I was reading it, I felt I'd read it once before... and I had.
- dang 11y agoThanks, we missed this one. When a story has had significant attention within the last year or so, we bury reposts as dupes. After that, reposts are fine. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- fenomas 11y agoIsn't this meant to happen automatically? I submitted it assuming HN would tell me if it had been posted before.
- fiatjaf 11y agoSometimes it does, for me.
- dang 11y agoIt depends on whether the urls exactly match and also on what happens to be loaded in RAM on the server—which gets increasingly non-deterministic as you go back in time. We're planning to work on better duplicate detection, but the problem is hard to solve well and we don't like to solve things not-well, so it may take a while.