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Isn't this meant to happen automatically? I submitted it assuming HN would tell me if it had been posted before.
by fenomas 11y ago
Isn'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.