I'm not sure that I agree with this decision.

That post was on the front page for about an hour and then sank into oblivion, probably because of the flame war detector (more comments than upvotes). This one was very interesting to a lot of people and stayed at the top of the front page for quite a while and likely would have stayed there barring intervention.

I agree that dupes are a problem when there was ample opportunity for discussion, but when the previous submission gets downed by the flame detector or gets flagged to death by bad luck it seems like it's only fair to let the second submission stand a chance at natural survival.

At this point, the previous submission is arguably the dupe and this is the canonical submission.

I re-upped the previous thread so it would have more frontpage time.

The other issue is that we generally prefer a clear third-party article to an obfuscatory corporate press release.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Ah, thanks, I missed that the previous discussion was re-upped.