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Thanks for taking the time to do this.

Hey dang, I was wondering. Do you have any kind of automatization for this type of comments? Or do you manually build the repost list on a selected few posts?

Scroll down to the bottom of HN pages, there's a search box; paste the URL in and it shows previous submissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.laputan.org%2Fmud...

At the top of the page you can click "past" which will do a search on the title, or click the hostname to see all other submissions of that site. But I don't think that's what BaraBatman was asking: rather whether dang has automation for performing those searches and constructing a comment from the results.

I build them manually but can do so pretty quickly using HN Search and a browser extension I wrote that does a lot with keyboard shortcuts.

I may be wrong but isn't the submitter warned that this link has been already posted when creating new submission?

No, reposts are fine after a year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. That's always been HN's policy and it strikes a nice balance - it means the site is not overrun by duplicates, but at the same time good content gets multiple chances at discussion. That's especially important for new cohorts of users, who haven't seen the classics yet.