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There was a cloudflare error while posting which triggered lots of folks to repost lots of things. The error came up after the post was saved, though.

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Hmm do you know of other cases of this that I could look into?

> Hmm do you know of other cases of this that I could look into?

No clue. What happened was...

i had noticed that a surprising number of people were posting the same things 2-3 times and assumed it was due to some non-obvious error. Then i posted something (must have been /item?id=38989363) and, indeed, got a CloudFlare error. My instinct was to tap Back and Submit again but the number of repeated posts i'd noticed earlier tipped me off not to. Instead i visited /newest and there was my post, despite the CloudFlare error.

FWIW I saw the Cloudflare error a few times whilst attempting a comment, though it seems to not have created dupes:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39002310>

(Sort of an anti-example of the problem, people's experiences may have varied.)

that explains observations better, thank you

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