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th0ma5 on May 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.yc...

i dunno why but the duplicate check seems to be working less well, see:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2510757 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2511398

swores on May 5, 2011 [–]

Same issue it's always had, that most websites are configured to accept more than one unique URL, with minor alterations. Often it's something like "?source=twitter" on the end, or "#top". In the case you linked to, one has a trailing slash and the other doesn't.

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