They are indeed the same. How did it pass?
$ foo()
> {
> wget -qO- "${1?}" |
> sed -n '/.*title"/!d; s///; s/">.*//; s/.*"//p; q'
> }
$ cat <(foo 'http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1141971') \
> <(foo 'http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1523991') |
> uniq -c
2 http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html
$