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0 pointsoneeyedpigeon10y ago0 comments

How is that even possible?

Edit: OK, since someone's going to downvote me for asking that question, I'll add a bit more context:

Duplicate submissions are supposed to be ignored. The URLs for these two submissions appear to be identical, so my question stands: how has this happened?

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brudgers10y ago· 1 in thread

Perhaps both submitted URL's were different but resolved to the same URL by HN's software?

neogodless10y ago

So wouldn't HN's software detect "identical resolved URLs"?

pessimizer10y ago

Duplicate submissions haven't been ignored for a long time, and HN was even actively emailing submitters and asking them to resubmit stories. Now, from what I understand, the software is automatically resubmitting stories (or just renewing stories) that their algorithm says probably deserved more attention.

detaro10y ago

AFAIK the duplicate finder was tweaked to only react to already discussed links, and I guess 3 comments didn't count as a "discussion".

dang10y ago

It looks like a bug.

We've merged the comments from the other thread to here. A side-effect is that a couple of comments have timestamps older than their parent—the author of the parent comment posted it twice, and we moved the older replies to the newer post.

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