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Re:Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it by maxerickson on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @09:16AM (#9531477)
Are you able to adjust the url of the HN submission? I don't feel like creating one just to check, but that makes it easy to link the discussion, create the discussion before the page.
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Re:Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it by im3w1l on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @11:38AM (#9532543)
It seems ID's are assigned sequentially, so by timing your submission you should be able to get a predictable url.
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Re:Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it by losvedir on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @09:26AM (#9531545)
No, but that would be the way to do it, for sure. There's a link to "edit" my submission, but the form it takes me to only allows updating the title. It displays the URL as ordinary text, rather than a text input.
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Re:Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it by dang on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @12:40PM (#9532976)
We'll change the URL for you if you like.
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Re:Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it by brlewis on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @11:00AM (#9532230)
I guess you'll need a fixed URL that redirects to the HN submission.
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