On: Mailchimp Project Omnivore: Declassified

This is from jan 2010?

Yep... previous discussion (484 days ago):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1080700

I assumed the submission software would notice dupes of existing stories and point at them. The URLs seem the same.

That's true, but it's still an interesting read, it hasn't really dated.