[–] ColinWright 14y ago ↗ Recent submissions of this item:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2826345 : 2 days ago - no commentshttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825759 : 3 days ago - no commentsThat latter item has the exact same URL except for a "#" at the end - I wonder if it was added deliberately to thwart the HN duplicate detector. [–] geekam 14y ago ↗ I did not know there was a duplicate detector now. [–] ColinWright 14y ago ↗ There has always been a duplicate detector. If you submit an identical URL, instead of a submission, you upvote the original version and get shown that page. [–] wccrawford 14y ago ↗ It doesn't always work, though. Sometimes it will still create a new post, even with an identical URL. [–] ColinWright 14y ago ↗ I suspect it only works for items in the cache, and anything old enough and not recently referenced might only be on disk and not get checked.
[–] geekam 14y ago ↗ I did not know there was a duplicate detector now. [–] ColinWright 14y ago ↗ There has always been a duplicate detector. If you submit an identical URL, instead of a submission, you upvote the original version and get shown that page. [–] wccrawford 14y ago ↗ It doesn't always work, though. Sometimes it will still create a new post, even with an identical URL. [–] ColinWright 14y ago ↗ I suspect it only works for items in the cache, and anything old enough and not recently referenced might only be on disk and not get checked.
[–] ColinWright 14y ago ↗ There has always been a duplicate detector. If you submit an identical URL, instead of a submission, you upvote the original version and get shown that page. [–] wccrawford 14y ago ↗ It doesn't always work, though. Sometimes it will still create a new post, even with an identical URL. [–] ColinWright 14y ago ↗ I suspect it only works for items in the cache, and anything old enough and not recently referenced might only be on disk and not get checked.
[–] wccrawford 14y ago ↗ It doesn't always work, though. Sometimes it will still create a new post, even with an identical URL. [–] ColinWright 14y ago ↗ I suspect it only works for items in the cache, and anything old enough and not recently referenced might only be on disk and not get checked.
[–] ColinWright 14y ago ↗ I suspect it only works for items in the cache, and anything old enough and not recently referenced might only be on disk and not get checked.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 17.2 ms ] threadhttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2826345 : 2 days ago - no comments
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825759 : 3 days ago - no comments
That latter item has the exact same URL except for a "#" at the end - I wonder if it was added deliberately to thwart the HN duplicate detector.