Are reposts ok?

If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

HN moderator dang has made clear that stories which are submitted but don't get traction can be resubmitted after a day or so. This particular item has seen ample discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8315602

HN has an excellent search functionality, through Algolia. If you're interested in a specific topic, you can look to see if it's been discussed, whether recently or in the deep mists of time.

There's also the "front page" view which allows looking at the top stories of any given day, through history. I use this to catch up on top items from the recent past frequently: https://news.ycombinator.com/front

Traction and front-page status are a highly-variable lottery at best. This particular story's landed at least three times in the past week, though it's been repeats of the original item each time.

I do try hard to encourage what I see as worthwhile and substantive discussions. This includes frequently submitting nominations for "second chance queue" stories. A few of those have spawned rich discussions.