Comment by Aachen | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Aachen | Hacker News Reader

It's an interesting article I read and shared with friends when I first saw it, and recommend anyone to read who is not already knowledgeable on the topic, but eh

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42259689 14 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42281983 11 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42358025 3 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364372 reportedly 3 days ago but it's the same HN item ID as this one (second chance pool maybe?)

It's barely 2 weeks old, is it worth reposting that often?

Semi-related, I remember submitting something I found interesting that had been posted iirc ~40 days ago, but had barely gotten any votes so I submitted it once more and i just get redirected to the old ID and the system refuses to create a new entry. Okay no problem, I'll post later^W^W forget about it, but that makes me wonder: how can 4 submissions in two weeks even physically happen?

It would be nice if HN took advantage of the fast Algolia search as the person is typing in the "Submit URL Field" to show the last time(s) it has been submitted in chronological order to help make a better informed decision as to whether something is worth submitting in the first place.

That's on the roadmap, circa 2045.

We just got unpaginated threads after several decades so it'll be a while before the developer cooldown is up.

> second chance pool maybe?

It appears to be so. You can hover your cursor over the relative time of the post to see an absolute date which does not change.

which is funny, given the topic.

Yeah, I think that's a bit weird too. Note that this is my article but none of those submissions were by me.

Maybe Hacker News needs to extend the time period during which it checks for duplicate URLs?

Reposting will continue until we can agree on a date format that lets us clearly and unambigously state when we'll stop it :)

But seriously, yes, I think this is a very reasonable observation that's still surprisingly controversial and accordingly could benefit from more boosting.

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