I didn't see it on YC, nor did I see it at MS. I saw it on Flowing Data. I found it thru them, thus I posted it thru them. If they get left out perhaps they aren't needed thus we all have to do more legwork to find interesting things. JMHO.
That's fine - most of the time we discover information through 3rd party not the origin.
But HN guideline[1] suggests that please submit original source.
Please submit the original source.
If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.
Also, reposting the same news again after a week doesn't bring other people who saw it any more use and may divert conversations in different threads. Occasionally the mods allow news of great importance to be reposted but I think this is probably not the case here, IMO.
Agreed. Usually a good idea to do a quick search to make sure what you're about to post doesn't already have a thread, especially one that gained traction.
That being said, I missed the trending last week, so I was happy to see it :)
Posting it if you didn't see it the 1st time is reposting to you, but not to me or others who missed it the 1st time (or 4th time) around. Diverting conversations... really?
There are different ways of looking at this, of course, but HN's rules are clear: (1) please post the original (as devy quoted above), and (2) a post is a dupe if the story has had significant attention in the last year or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).
These rules maximize the overall quality of the site. It's certainly true that not everybody sees every post; but if we went with that logic, there would be no such thing as a duplicate at all. That would be bad. Front page space is the scarcest resource on HN, and needs to be distributed across as many high-quality stories as possible.
A great tool for running across interesting stories that you didn't see on HN the first time round is the 'past' link in the top bar, which lets you browse HN's top stories day by day.
