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Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self driving car

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Re: Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self driving car

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Post by dang »

cpncrunch wrote: post #9
jsnell wrote: post #7

Duplicate, most of the discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13165221

Actually, this submission was an hour earlier, and has the correct title and no url clutter. Yet for some reason the other submission got a lot more upvotes.

Often happens. When we do moderation things we try to privilege the earliest submission of a story but it isn't always possible.

We'll eventually get around to working on a more sophisticated way of handling duplicate submissions, but the simplicity of the current approach (i.e. allow a few reposts if a story hasn't had significant attention yet) has much to commend it.

Re: Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self driving car

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Post by cpncrunch »

dang wrote: post #11
cpncrunch wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, this submission was an hour earlier, and has the correct title and no url clutter. Yet for some reason the other submission got a lot more upvotes.

Often happens. When we do moderation things we try to privilege the earliest submission of a story but it isn't always possible. We'll eventually get around to working on a more sophisticated way of handling duplicate submissions, but the simplicity of the current approach (i.e. allow a few reposts if a story hasn't had significant attention yet) has much to commend it.

Perhaps the algorithm could be tweaked so that simply voting on a story pushes it closer towards the top of the homepage.

I always search before submitting, and just upvote an existing story if someone has already submitted it (unless it's a from different source, which may get more traction due to being better written).

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