ironically, i did not mean for this to go through as I was trying to locate the discussion on it.. obviously the url regex ain't working for this corner-case.

I'm not a fan of frequent reposting (if the last submission was a week or month ago) but once a year is tolerable :)

"I was trying to locate the discussion on it.. obviously the url regex ain't working for this corner-case"

I copy-pasted the url in the box. There are a few results:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=http%3A%2F...

neither am I.. you can provably do a check on my prior submits.. and hopefully that shows the type of topics .. I was honestly trying to locate the darn discussion on the blog.. :-).

The repost-detector has a bug that causes old posts to not conflict. Some view this as a feature to allow a new discussion after a good period of time.