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Re: Amazing Japanese and their Animations

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Submitted yesterday, many, many comments in the discussion there: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2682320

Thanks, I thought HN detects duplicate submissions and shows that it already exists. Thanks for the heads up anyway. Will have to do a check on HNSearch before putting up things.

Re: Amazing Japanese and their Animations

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post #3

Submitted yesterday, many, many comments in the discussion there: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2682320

Thanks, I thought HN detects duplicate submissions and shows that it already exists. Thanks for the heads up anyway. Will have to do a check on HNSearch before putting up things.

It's supposed to, and often does. In this case the URLs appear to be identical, so I don't know what's gone wrong. Possibly a restart, and the older item hadn't been loaded into memory. I'm pretty sure the algorithm only checks against URLs in cache.