Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers

Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by chx on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:12PM (#20364095)

How does the HN system work when I submitted the exact same URL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20317687 five days ago??? We have stickied this on the usbchardware subreddit as well at the time, it's still on the top: https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/ We have a nice wiki and if you are still confused about USB C, ask away, we try to help (chances are, I will answer :) ). You will also find a wonderful cornucopia of interesting USB C devices -- not just the usual chargers, power banks and docks but also a toothbrush, a razor, headphones, speakers, video lights, a soldering iron... we like USB C :)

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by dang on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:37PM (#20364261)

> How does the HN system work when I submitted the exact same URL

This is a frequently asked question. The answer can be found in HN's FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Reposts are allowed if a story hasn't had significant attention yet, because we there's a lot of randomness in what gets noticed on the /newest page and we want to give good stories multiple rolls of the dice.

Lots more explanation over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by tracker1 on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:23PM (#20364166)

Just guessing the person that submitted later has significantly more karma or popularity. It seems to happen quite a bit. There's also time of day to consider, it's possible this made it in when more people are browsing by newest and upvoted pretty early.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by glenneroo on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:29PM (#20364201)

chx has 8000+ karma whereas OP has ~600, so scratch that as a possible explanation. I would also guess it mainly depends on the time of day.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by chx on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:29PM (#20364202)

The question rather is, why would the system allow the same URL to be submitted twice. In the past when I tried to submit something already in, I was redirected to the existing post and my submissions was converted into an upvote.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by hombre_fatal on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:49PM (#20364338)

A five-day-old HN submission is effectively dead. Would make sense if the behavior you describe only happens to dupe urls within 24hr of each other if the first one hit a certain threshold of traction. Else makes more sense to allow the dupe submission to give it another shot.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by dang on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:52PM (#20364361)

You get redirected to an existing post if it has already had significant attention or is less than 8 hours old. Otherwise reposts go through.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by chx on Friday July 05, 2019 @02:04PM (#20364446)

Why don't you just bump the post to newest if someone attempted to resubmit it?

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by dang on Friday July 05, 2019 @03:03PM (#20364921)

I don't understand what you mean exactly.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by chx on Friday July 05, 2019 @03:42PM (#20365251)

Let's presume http://example.com was never submitted. So, when it is submitted, it is on the top of https://news.ycombinator.com/newest but it doesn't get much attention.

Now let's resubmit http://example.com a few days later. It should be on top of https://news.ycombinator.com/newest again. But not as a new post. No, the first submission should be moved up here.

Obviously after some time / amount of comments this makes no sense, people resubmit years old links etc but thresholds can be set.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by dang on Friday July 05, 2019 @04:32PM (#20365627)

Thanks, I see what you mean now.

If we did that then /newest would no longer be a simple chronological log of everything posted to HN.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by jk2faster on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:51PM (#20364359)

Indeed, there seems to optimal times for posting: http://hnnotify.leknarf.net/

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by dang on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:51PM (#20364358)

Karma doesn't affect it. It's really mostly random.

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