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I was kinda hoping it was manual (sorry). I was fired up at the opportunity to build something tiny that solves a pain, but...man you have a solid setup there :D

StackOverflow has this feature that when you write a new question, it tries to fuzzy-match that up against existing questions. I wonder if an approach similar to yours, using search, could be employed on HN as well to reduce the number of dupes?!

This would be helpful especially for those cases where the same story gets covered on multiple places on the internet and so URL matching doesn't help.

Wonder if ML could help automate merging of duplicate (or similar topic) threads? (I don't know much about ML)

LLM's would be absolutely amazing at this actually. With their current ability - it's basically their sweet spot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_linkage

Wow that is cool! Any chance you could share that Arc extension?

I'd have to do brain surgery on it first, to disentangle all the moderation-only code from code that would be generally useful, but yes I'd love to do this someday. It makes reading HN (and posting) so much easier from a desktop browser (if you like keyboard shortcuts, that is).