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Comment by davidrusu | Hacker News Reader

Anyone else seeing this post as the 1st and 2nd link on the front page of HN?

Looking into it now. Edit: hopefully fixed now. Will edit this comment later when we figure out what happened.

Ok, we figured out what happened. A background process that is upgrading old stories to a new data format went rogue and made multiple copies of a few stories in memory. Apparently it agrees with some of you that HN could use more stories about Go.

Sorry for the error.

In case is gets fixed, here's what I see, to help diagnose the bug [1]. Both posts point to https://github.com/golang/go/commit/b986f3e3b54499e63903405c..., have the same HN item id=9097404, but different comments counts.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/xATOXPb.png

This must be the new and improved "eventually consistent HN" that dang has been talking about.

Yes. With the same URL for both discussion and article, though with differing scores and comment counts.

I notice that one submission is "canonical" for the flag/unflag bit. You can flag one of the two submissions, and the "unflag" will show up on the other submission.

Maybe Hacker News is budding. Is it spring already?

It's a huge page. Maybe HN took a while to read the URL and the OP ended up double-posting.

But they both link to the same comments section

And they seem to link to the same URL, which HN is supposed to prevent (for submissions created within a short period).

I'm seeing the same thing with this post as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9096843

It's the smart quotes.

Ha. It's always the smart quotes.

They've caused me so many headaches over the years it's amazing to me that they are still actively supported and implemented in any software. What value do they even bring?

#DeathToSmartQuotes

Smart quotes tend to cause a lot of problems... especially since they don't just convert to a standard quote in Unicode, etc... [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Curved_quotes_an...

User content posted from a word processor directly into a textarea field = much suffering.

> It's always the smart quotes. #DeathToSmartQuotes

This is pure kogir bait (he is your passionate co-positionist), but as far as we can tell, it wasn't the smart quotes.

The same is true for the "C# Edit and Continue and Make Object ID Improvements in CTP 6" story, presently at #25 and #27.

I'm also seeing duplicates of the 'Add "Magic" to Your Business' post on the front page.

Yes! And with different points, too.

Looks like they diverged. Lots of duplicate comments.

Edit: Nope. All comments show on both.

The comment links are in fact the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9097404

Also, one is marked as having exactly double the number of comments and points as the other.

Not for me anymore: http://imgur.com/XM8xmEp

When the double point/reply relationship ended, the comments sections also diverged. This is how it looked while the comments were still identical: http://tinypic.com/r/vn2u0i/8

I've seen it before, a couple weeks ago, but it disappeared rather rapidly last time.

Yep, with different numbers of comments.

yes

The second post wasn't there for the first 30 minutes or so, it just appeared out of nowhere, no idea why.

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