Submissions can count as dupes when they cover the same story. The story here is substantially the same as 19210697, and the pattern I was trying to pointing out is visible at https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=August-Garcia. (It has nothing to do with the creators of this project or the other one, but yes there has been more than one form of double dipping.)
I agree that it is a cool project! Marking this post a dupe isn't to deny that. It's just that front page real estate is the scarcest resource on HN. More explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19103247.
Not seeing all the cool things that show up on HN is a problem all of us have. One thing we made to try to mitigate this is https://news.ycombinator.com/front, which you can get to by clicking 'past' in the top bar.
Okay, I see what you're saying. Yeah, your updated response is more clear. I was confused before, but you are actually addressing August-Garcia. For sure seems like they are trying to capitalize on popular posts, and driving traffic to 256k website is clearly the goal. I'm definitely not a fan of this behavior & have ranted about similar activities in the past... lol
Also, props to the 'past' feature. Great idea! I'm a big fan. Thanks for all the hard work!
I agree that it is a cool project! Marking this post a dupe isn't to deny that. It's just that front page real estate is the scarcest resource on HN. More explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19103247.
Not seeing all the cool things that show up on HN is a problem all of us have. One thing we made to try to mitigate this is https://news.ycombinator.com/front, which you can get to by clicking 'past' in the top bar.