Oh, likely, but the duplicate detection is based on URL matching, not on newness of content. See the other submission at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5717674 and note that the referenced URL does not have the # at the end that this one does.
Whatever. I'm glad people are looking at this because it is incredible.
EDIT:
I do wonder, however, that the link from 3 days ago only has one point, which is what it had as soon as it was created. Presumably elemeno appended the "#" before he submitted the link, because if he had just submitted the link then the 3-day-ago link would have at least two points. Is automatically adding the hash a thing that people do? Is reposting non-hashed links from several days before with added hashes a thing that people do?
I guess since this version of the link has been upvoted 201 times, elemeno actually has provided a valuable service to HN.
The three days ago one didn't come up when I first put the URL in, though the 500+ days ago one did. Quite possibly I was simply lucky in that I posted near the start of the UK work day, thus making it likely to get noticed by people in Europe and then the US, also quite possibly there's a bit of extra magic in how HN deals with dupes and how quickly it forgets about submissions that get no love.
Very weird! The really old one didn't come up for me. It came up for you, but the 3-day-old one didn't. I would speculate that we're seeing the CAP Theorem in action, except I know I've read that HN is hosted on a single box.
