"... Wasn't this submitted long ago on on ycnews ? ..."
Might have been (same article with different url), show me? Now if hackernews.yc had a search function I'd look for it and not bother but as it is I have to go to google, then search something like http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fycombinat... Maybe I should add this submission check to my sub-que software before I submit. It would scale much easier if this or similiar searches could be provided at submission. But even then there is no guarantee that this will work, so I don't bother.