swyx is correct* - the criterion for dupiness on HN is not the URL, it's whether the story is substantially the same or not. Put differently, do two URLs lead to substantially different or substantially the same discussion?
* but not to use @dang, which is a no-op. The only way to reliably contact us is hn@ycombinator.com. Someone did that about this, so I'm about to merge the threads.
haha yeah am aware its a no-op, but figured since it was so high up on the front page (#2 by the time i saw it) that someone else would have already done it before i did or that you'd see this even just casually browsing
Somewhat counterintuitively, it ends up doing the opposite - people think (like you did and I did, especially if you see other contemporaneous dangcomments) it is or is about to be taken care of so nothing happens. Better to just email.
* but not to use @dang, which is a no-op. The only way to reliably contact us is hn@ycombinator.com. Someone did that about this, so I'm about to merge the threads.