For the record, I got an email from Hacker News asking me to repost it since they thought it was a good story and it did not get many views. It's not wise to post something to Hacker News late on a Friday :)
I refrained from providing commentary on whether or not posting it a second time is "good" or "bad". While small, there was commentary on the previous link, and that commentary might be valuable to people. I personally think that Hacker News should have an integrated feature that shows "previous discussions" of every posted link. FWIW, reddit has that feature, and it is extremely valuable. (I provide this extra context, as someone down voted my attempt to be useful in addition to you providing a semi-defensive response.)