Actually submitted that here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3869567

Lot of stories get submitted more than one time. People just don't like searching.

Maybe people notice that techcrunch articles get upvoted. Hence they submit TC articles (to get karma. humans love to have more than their fellow of anything: green beans, salt rocks, pieces of paper etc).

This can be addressed in two ways:

1) Randomly allow a subset of users to upvote article (like slashdot's moderation system).

2) Cap karma from articles.

Sorry if I'm massively mistaken and people don't get karma from article submissions.

People do get karma from article submissions.

Several ideas related to limiting the influence of article submissions were made here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842554

I also wonder if people repost a different article/URL for the same news story, hoping their post will be the one to get upvoted.

You'd think so, but if you look at both the comments and submissions of "sdtransfer," the poster of this article, they don't seem like they'd be terribly hope-y.

Sorry, I saw the article on Techmeme and posted it here. I didn't think about posting the original blog post, but I realize that would have been better.

I know that submitting articles gets you more karma, but I didn't do this to get more karma. I don't really care about getting more karma as I'm mostly just a passive observer of HN and not really an active participant.

I read a discussion on here the other day about abolishing submission karma, and I agree with it. It doesn't make sense why someone should get more karma just for posting a link, or if they do, more karma should be given for comments than for submissions.