[tomhow]

Because today’s post is a repeat/dupe of the same story that was on the front page for 18 hours a week ago and attracted 1100 upvotes and 600+ comments. It was one of the biggest stories all year on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691142

It's bog standard HN moderation to remove duplicate stories.

[mdhb]

What is even the logic here? I understand the concept that when you have multiple threads going on about one article or story AT THE SAME TIME… then sure, the dupe option makes sense.

When you are manually putting a dupe tag on a story because someone posted it a week ago I think people feel very differently about that.

This is very literally the kind of behaviour people are referring to when they make the accusation that the mods are actively interfering with what people want to talk about.

This idea that you’re here telling me and others with a straight face that everything is above board while also doing this just doesn’t pass the credibility test, the logic makes no sense.

[tomhow]

This is the way HN has always been moderated. Well, for at least 10 years. It's in the FAQ [1]

If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

It's nothing to do with it being political. It's simply to do with being a duplicate of a story that has already been heavily discussed, just a week ago.

It's a well established convention that a topic is only eligible for further front page exposure when there is "significant new information" (SNI) [2].

There have been many instances of SNI with respect to DOGE this year, which is why there have been (I believe) more front-page stories about it on HN than anything else [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[jerrygenser]

The krebs on security detail was published just yesterday. While it's the same event, krebs is an authoritative source which has more detail than the npr source.

[tptacek]

The threshold is Significant New Information ("SNI"), where "significant" implies that it's material enough to alter the dimensions of the story. I don't think many people were left uncertain by the NPR story.