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Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings

• ColinWright 15y ago
  Recent submissions of this item: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2826345 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2826345 : 2 days ago - no comments http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825759 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.
  • geekam 15y ago
    I did not know there was a duplicate detector now.
    • ColinWright 15y 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 15y ago
        It doesn't always work, though. Sometimes it will still create a new post, even with an identical URL.
        • ColinWright 15y 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.