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📣 gabrielsroka

How to de-dupe the HN front page


I've been using the HN client I wrote [0] for a couple of years now. It uses the official HN API. But I noticed that I get many duplicates every time I read it.

What's the best way to reduce duplicates? I always try to check recent posts before I post. Obviously if it has the same URL, it's a duplicate but it's not always that simple. Sometimes an article, like Elon Musk having Asperger's, is covered on many different sites and will appear 5 or 10 times.

(And yes, this is something that HN itself should try to prevent, but that's unlikely to happen anytime soon.)

[0] https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hn.html?small


  👤 gostsamo Accepted Answer ✓
Use search. Especially keywords and sort by date. However, some sources are better than others and sometimes the time of posting also matters, so it is okay to have some duplicate submissions.