HN specifically permits reposts where a story's had no significant attention in the past year:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8187562>

(Many more such cases: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>.)

This particular item's apparently been added to the 2nd chance queue, unbenownst to me, by HN's mods.

Archive of current "pool" page: <https://archive.is/LRg5d>