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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.
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?
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.
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.

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.