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Re:Hacker News ate my ID by sp332 on Thursday January 16, 2014 @05:14PM (#7072888)
Have you seen the explanation? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7069013 A few hours of data was lost, so I'm guessing yours isn't the only reused ID. Your epsilon idea isn't bad though.
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Re:Hacker News ate my ID by sbp on Thursday January 16, 2014 @05:26PM (#7072939)
Yeah, I saw the explanation. It should be possible to calculate the average rate of submission, and therefore the ID allocation rate, and then increment by that plus some safety margin when restoring.

It's just ironic that the first time in nearly 1500 days of lurking on HN I actually decide to post, the site itself eats my submission.

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