I&#x27;ll copy a comment of dang in a similar case: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11273580" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11273580</a><p>&gt; <i>HN doesn&#x27;t treat posts as dupes when a story hasn&#x27;t had significant attention yet. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsfaq.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsfaq.html</a> .</i><p>&gt; <i>This is because we want good stories to have multiple chances at making the front page. The current story is a great example. In fact, we invited tdurden to repost it, as we sometimes do when we notice an article that we think the community might find interesting, but which fell through the cracks.</i><p>&gt; <i>We&#x27;re working on a better duplicate handling system that will reduce the number of reposts in the story stream, but getting it right is surprisingly subtle, and we&#x27;d rather take longer than get it wrong.</i>