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> I think this is the fourth submission in the past 10 days.

I just checked those submissions, and it turned out they were posted in a single day (August 10th) with an eleven-hour time frame! The first submission was at 05:48 AM, the second at 06:37 AM (within less than an hour from the first), and the third at 16:24 PM, which raises one of the weirdest behaviors of the HN system (at least for me): "How or why on earth some submissions got accepted as 'duplicates' where others did not? ". I encounter this a lot when I try to submit a story and it gets rejected because it was already submitted. Sometimes, even if the original story is a month old or more!!

> which raises one of the weirdest behaviors of the HN system (at least for me)

I second that. Two months ago I tried to submit what I found to be a quite interesting video from 2018 and it was immediately marked as duplicate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40798566

Checking past submissions, I saw that the last time it had been submitted was a year ago:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

But then, as you can see from that page, someone resubmitted the video a month ago and for some reason that one got through.

I don't mind reposts now and then, since the odds of two people independently finding the same link interesting over time are pretty good, given the way things tend to circulate on social media and other aggregate platforms.

I also worry that HN is slowly turning into a karma farm like Reddit did. The point of reposting on HN just to build Internet Points escapes me,. At least on Reddit there was a market for accounts with high karma, so I guess I could see the motivation there. But here?

I'd argue that people try it every now and then, only to realize that points on HN are worthless. It took me a good amount of years to get some points. I couldn’t care less, because I never saw the benefit.

Who knows? Maybe there is a hidden club somewhere where your HN karma will open doors.

You can just flag it as a dupe or email hn@ycombinator.com if you think it's misranked.