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Dang, is there any design reason for not listing only a single news for submissions with both http:// and https:// in the URL? I basically posted that again because IMHO the original post didn't get attention that Hound deserved (since it was posted in a shitty hour of the day), but this is a cheap trick to bypass the submit form I know.

EDIT: clarification

The duplicate detector is left weak like that on purpose to allow for reposts of good stories that didn't get significant attention the first time they were posted. This is described in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

We treated this one as a dupe because it's pretty hard to argue that the previous post didn't get significant attention at 46 points. On the other hand, the interest in this project (including the repost) looks organic and genuine, so as an experiment, we've unburied it and merged yesterday's comments into this thread.

Oh, +1 for merging these cases indeed. Thanks for the info :-)

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