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>>Robin8+(OP)
Looking at the list of removed stories makes me really happy with the moderators here. They're all sensationalist, advertising for some company, clickbait, way off topic, or some combination of above. In fact, I don't see a single story that I personally feel should not have been removed.

Thanks, mods.

>>a12k+Q2
At a quick glance, I found several that don't match that criteria you mention, here are a few:

Open Source Doesn't Require Providing Builds

https://codeengineered.com/blog/2024/open-source-not-builds/

Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source

https://futurism.com/sam-altman-energy-breakthrough

Avoid Async Rust at All Cost

https://blog.hugpoint.tech/avoid_async_rust.html

(Perhaps that last one could be renamed to be less hyperbolic, but the content was still an interesting opinion piece)

I don't think this is being done by the mods, by the way. It's more likely some spam filter with false positives, report brigading, or an anti upvote ring mechanism.

>>TheCor+f7
The Altman story was likely a dupe (or triplicate)

>>passwo+89
Why not redirect to the original story?

>>dontup+Tb
We do redirect to earlier posts that had the exact same URL. But most dupes, in the sense of repeated posts about the same story, don't have the exact same URL. What do you do then? That's a hard problem. It would be great to have an automated solution to that but I don't know of one.

>>dang+FM1
sorry for replying late, thanks for the reply - [0]

... that is a hard question, something akin to topic amalgamation or cosine similarity on the bulletpoints?

could one (semi)automatically ask the community to confirm if story foo and story bar are both sufficiently simultaneous about baz?

.... is there any dataset one might be able to play around with on this topic?

[0] there's like 3 good mods left online and you are one of them, so thanks for that.

>>dontup+tji
> something akin to topic amalgamation or cosine similarity

Yup. We played with that years ago and dropped it as much too big of a potato. Another HN user spent a lot of time working on it and eventually gave up too. Someone should have a go using the newer AI tools though.

> could one (semi)automatically ask the community to confirm if story foo and story bar are

Also yup - building support for the community to take care of this is how we plan to do it, whenever we get to working on it. I think this could work well because people care about this problem.