I knew I'd seen this before. It looks like Medium's wacky URL structure is bypassing the dupe checker. If you search for the hex code at the end[1], you get the previous discussions.

From when this was first posted in March:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7478975

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7569454

From May:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7855337

[1] like this: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=c62f2404f66#!/story/forever/0/c62f...