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I posted this 4 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5810228

How come HN allowed a duplicate link?




OP added a hash (#) after the URL to make it unique


I hate when people do that. I posted the story to MJ's report on lead in gasoline being linked to crime rates.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5008285

Someone posted the "print" version and got 333 points for it a couple hours later.


You are worried that you didn't get the karma points. I am glad that I was able to find this because someone reposted it, when the other was lost to oblivion.


Honestly, I don't care about karma at all. I was just curious when I saw the duplicate post. But now that I learned something can be reposted by adding # at the end of it, I think it needs to be fixed.


reposting tip #142

some people are experts




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