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This could be a good submission but right now it's a follow-up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632892, which is already on the front page. In such cases it's best for the auxiliary link to appear in the comments, not as a second submission on the front page. This is because frontpage space is the scarcest resource we have, and because trying to avoid repetition is a key aspect of optimizing for curiosity.

Here's a thwack of links to past explanations:

On follow-up posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Frontpage scarcity: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Curiosity withers under repetition: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Optimizing for one thing: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Can't be predicted from any sequence: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Ah, I came across it independently of the other article, but I get where you're coming from.

Edit: To note the copy/pasted set of links at the bottom of the post mostly end up leading to further instances of the same copy/pasted set of links. Not overly informative.

Yeah I need to do something about that. But there's also a lot of meat on those bones if you scroll through.

RE: front page scarcity and avoiding repetition, one of the few things I like about stack overflow (which is also present in Notational Velocity and its descendants, and there’s other prior art) is treating the title input also as a search to help minimize duplicates. I know HN doesn’t like to have a lot of in page interactivity but maybe if a title or link seems to duplicate another recent submission on submit it could prompt to upvote or comment the earlier submission in lieu of submitting the duplicate?

How can the FAQ not include "clearly explain how this differs from GPL and BSD?" Does anyone know?

Perhaps because it prominently says that it isn't even a license at all?

It is just a made-up term/category to identify licenses that restrict direct commercialization of software. Like how "open-source" isn't a license by itself, but a reasonably-shared understanding about software licenses with some properties.

Don’t add restrictions, period. You shouldn’t even have such an option. It’s an evil thing. It also shows a profound ignorance of how little your work adds vs builds on the contributions of others.

I made a hammer to put nails in things so I guess it’s evil to ask someone not to bash my brains in with it

Here's a reminder that DisneyCorp asks the government to bash your brains with a hammer if you show Toy Story to a poor 3 year old: https://www.deviantart.com/cb642ondeviantart/art/FBI-Warning...

Maybe you don’t know but negation of a harmful thing isn’t the same as threatening it.

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