Do you remember these, or do you do a search on each link? Just a-wondering!

I remember when I've seen something, and I've written tools to perform quick searches and create the text. I then confirm by hand, and copy-paste that text. It takes seconds if the search shows what I think I remember, and about a minute if I need to work harder.

More, when I do the searches I often stumble across other items by accident, and I've made several happy discoveries in that manner, so I don't think of the time as wasted. In this particular case the search for "Urine" in the title turned up some other interesting articles in addition to the earlier one for this story, one which already had discussion, which people may have missed without the cross-reference.

ColinWright posts great articles to HN, and thoughtful comments to threads. He is a valued contributor.

The duplicate thread posts are irritating to some people. But they are seen as very useful by many others. You claim that this single post is clutter and is not helpful. It is not clutter. It is helpful. It provides quick easy access to previous discussion.

It would be great if people could link to the canonical version of an article, rather than each tech-blog's minimal write-up; and if people could search HN before submitting a post.

But notice that ColinWright has not complained about duplication, and is merely providing useful links to previous discussion.

You've been downvoted. Partly this is because you should either ignore, or down vote, or flag, posts that you think should not be here.

(http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

>Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

I have a feeling he was kidding based on looking at his profile. :)

he can't downvote yet.