Because the URL is different in a way that looks substantial unless you happen to know how the BBC organizes its stories. Which, as it happens, hasn't been buil

Because the URL is different in a way that looks substantial unless you happen to know how the BBC organizes its stories. Which, as it happens, hasn't been built into the HN software. (It's news.bbc.co.uk/1/... versus news.bbc.co.uk/2/... which I think -- but my recollection is hazy and my google-fu currently insufficient to check -- they use to distinguish between "UK" and "world" versions of their site. Whether there's any actual difference any more, I don't know. In this instance the page content is the same each way apart from 2 characters in the URL of some web-analytics tracking thing.)