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I've noticed everyone posts links in footnotes, is that just Hacker News etiquette?

• therealdrag0 6y ago
  Ya I think so. Since there isn’t a way to make html links with a short text .
• Jasper_ 6y ago
  It's old-school plain-text email etiquette. The original Markdown even used a variant of that syntax for its links definition, known as "reference links". https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link