While that might be your opinion, that is not the guidance of the FAQ 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. . 4 posts is not a small number, one of those posts was already correctly auto-flagged by the system as a dupe.

This post got around that by using a syndicated alternative source which clearly states it's verbatim a Wired article, which is against the guidelines[1]: Please submit the original source

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

No, it's not just my opinion, it's how HN works, you can find lots of moderator comments about it. The thing in the FAQ about reposts is someone posting the same thing over and over. Different people posting the same story is perfectly normal, there can't possibly be a rule against that that would make sense. Lots of stories have many more than three reposts, big, popular stories can have dozens. They don't really matter until something catches and gets a thread.

If you think the wired story or author's writeup (https://sites.google.com/view/compromptmized) would be a better link for this submission you can email [email protected] with the better url and it will get fixed.

Four is not a small number?

I found it interesting and wouldn't have seen any of those previous links.