I get that this is annoying, and we're working on a plan to group duplicate submissions together, but in the meantime everyone needs to understand that allowing reposts until a story has had significant attention is explicitly ok here. It's a tactic for letting the best stories surface, which is the #1 quality concern for HN.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=...