Sure. I'm not trying to shut down the discussion, or flag this as a dupe, or anything like that. It's more of a PSA that if anyone finds this subject interesting and wants more, there's a thousand HN comments already written on it.
It seems that this particular link was posted by the same poster 4 times over the past few weeks [0]. Given the pattern of repeat reposts I assumed it's an experiment to see which times are best to post to get more traction.
Hey I'm the OP, the HN rules indicate that if a post didn't get enough attention that's alright.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
"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."
> HN rules indicate that if a post didn't get enough attention that's alright
Which is why I explicitly stated I assumed it's just an experiment of sorts and I didn't imply anything nefarious.
The optics of posting the same links from the same websites suggest going beyond "I found this interesting" towards something more about getting the clicks.
Sometimes HN is used just to garner audience, and while the letter of the rules may be observed, the spirit certainly isn't [0] (you may need to enable seeing dead threads).
We always can discuss it a little bit longer