> duplicate discussion for the same link

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but this is incorrect per moderator dang at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43765252:

> On HN, dupeness is more a question of whether the underlying story is substantively the same or not

I believe dang's most recent in-depth explanation can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43738815 and you can search for more at https://hn.algolia.com?query=author%3Adang+dupe&sort=byDate&...

Submissions of the same exact URL are automatically merged into the previous discussion server side, and are discouraged for about a year.