Not really fair to us paying readers!

I think that site gets far too much coverage on HackerNews along with atlas obscura -- I see multiple articles everyday.

Honestly I find their content here too frequently -- there is some manipulation going on.

It is a subsection (as it is a subdomain) but it's linked to directly from their main page. Consider it a magazine within the main publication.

You really ought to check the search funtion for a url before you post it. But the dupe detector/merger ought to be smarter, in a world where medium and feedburner, to take two examples, tack all manner of querystring garbage onto a url.

As per the HN FAQ (link at bottom of page), you can repost something if it hasn't gotten significant attention in the last year. The previous discussion of this story is only three months old.