I doubt a majority of HNers saw the original submission.
Edit: To the pedantic downvoters, do you have to be completely hostile all the time? This is exactly the crap that is making HN a worse community-- a bunch of egotistical trolls chasing superiority highs. The problem is the trolls are more motivated to downvote than the normal people are willing to upvote, so eventually all interaction will be suppressed other than the few voiced the hive-mind accepts and agrees with.
I could understand if it was something that had tons of duplicates, but it's not that big of a deal when a company is still relatively unknown.
I didn't catch the other article, not everyone logs in within a 24 hour period. I found the article useful despite it being a resubmission and I otherwise wouldn't have heard about the company--apparently 37 other people agree.
Edit: To the pedantic downvoters, do you have to be completely hostile all the time? This is exactly the crap that is making HN a worse community-- a bunch of egotistical trolls chasing superiority highs. The problem is the trolls are more motivated to downvote than the normal people are willing to upvote, so eventually all interaction will be suppressed other than the few voiced the hive-mind accepts and agrees with.