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It beats me as to why HN hasn't implemented duplicate detection.

I think HN's dupe detection is a work in progress. I think it's currently a bit weaker, which allows good stories to get a chance when reposted.

Here's a post about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645

Specifically - this link is to "/blog?=byot", while the earlier one is to the much prettier URL "/blog/bring-your-own-team"

Why Stripe would implement their URL structure that way is a question that I have.

My first guess would be backwards compatibility - the "?=" is easier to implement with old tooling, so maybe they changed their URL scheme at some point. But in that case they should have done one/both of:

1) Only generate the ugly old-style URLs for the old posts.

2) Make the old-style URLs into redirects to the new ones, rather than duplicates. This way must be hell on the search engines.

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