Comment on Text Editors in The Lord of the RingsComments−ColinWright15yRecent 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.−geekam15yI did not know there was a duplicate detector now.−ColinWright15yThere 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.−wccrawford15yIt doesn't always work, though. Sometimes it will still create a new post, even with an identical URL.−ColinWright15yI 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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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.
I did not know there was a duplicate detector now.
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.
It doesn't always work, though. Sometimes it will still create a new post, even with an identical URL.
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.