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1f97 | 5 years ago

previous HN topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23141148

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hobofan|5 years ago

This is a slightly different tool. I'd hope that we won't have one of those every day now though.

dang|5 years ago

It seems much too close to the original Show HN to have a second one two days later. The rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) say: "New features and upgrades ("Foo 1.3.1 is out") generally aren't substantive enough to be Show HNs. A major overhaul is probably ok."

This may not technically be a new feature but slight variations on the same thing are very much in the bucket that that rule is meant to address.

This is a special case of a more general issue: follow-up posts [1] are not great for HN because they are repetitive, and curiosity withers under repetition. The test we apply is whether a post contains significant new information [2].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...