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With a different registrar to ycombinator.com, this is likely not owned by Y Combinator, and therefore difficult to trust that it won't start being malicious in
by LeoPanthera 5y ago
With a different registrar to ycombinator.com, this is likely not owned by Y Combinator, and therefore difficult to trust that it won't start being malicious in the future.
- ericlewis 5y agoIt's been registered for a very long time too. I recently launched a hacker news app for iOS and am using hackernews.cloud for the various backend services (favicons, summaries, read-time, etc)
- itsnotlupus 5y agoRight. Once upon a time, it used to be a decent resource for computer security-oriented news items.
- dageshi 5y agoThat's ringing a bell, I feel like I once had that site in regular rotation with slashdot.
- dang 5y agoIt's owned by YC now. We got it earlier this year. That's why it redirects to HN!
- Graffur 5y agoDoes this indicate other incoming changes?
- kgwxd 5y agoCouldn't strike a deal with lanxiongchuanmeiyouxiangongsi for hn.com?
- dang 5y agoWe need to pass Go a few more times first.
- rahimnathwani 5y agoDoesn't hurt to ask :) Maybe contact them? http://www.lanxiong.cn/contact http://www.lanxiong.cn/contact
- nathell 5y agoGo? Isn’t Rust all the rage these days?
- disillusioned 5y agoGet dat PG piggy bank going
- ushakov 5y agoglad you do now! how much did it cost?
- yashasolutions 5y agoeverything
- mightytightywty 5y agoShouldn't news.ycombinator.com redirect to hackernews.com instead?
- judge2020 5y agoBiggest problem with this would be broken password managers.
- leohonexus 5y agoWouldn't be a problem if auth is still handled on ycombinator.com
- floatingatoll 5y agoThat introduces a problem where certain browsers ask the user to confirm the cross-domain interaction before proceeding (which I suppose mitigates various silent credentials theft and tracking problems) unless you do whole-page SSO, in which case you end up with cookie, anti-tracking, and container-routing problems.
- sblom 5y agoWhat browser prompts for permission to follow a redirect? OAuth flows don't require cross-domain interaction in any of the ways that browsers have fought to reduce.
- floatingatoll 5y agoRedirects are fine as long as no container-type things are in play (since those don't necessarily carry the origin's cookies across the boundary), it's embedded cross-domain auth forms in an iframe that can cause a dialog.
- dang 5y agoWe'd need a compelling reason to do a major surgery like that. It's possible to imagine scenarios, so it's great to have the option, but I think it would be a mistake to exercise it just-because. I say that for at least two reasons: (1) users hate change; and (2) the feedback loops between HN and YC are vital to both, so it would be bad to weaken them.
- motohagiography 5y agoCongratulations. I am very happy to read this, as, imo, that's value and a win for some very solid people all around!
- xbar 5y ago...and there was much rejoicing!
- ggrelet 5y agoOut of curiosity, is it the result of this "Ask HN": Why is YC not owning the domain Hacker News.com yet? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25375903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25375903
- dang 5y agoI don't really remember but judging by the timing, I don't think so. Sorry!
- fourstar 5y agoCan you share the price?
- leoc 5y agoI'd just assumed that a recursion joke had managed to get onto the front page for some reason. I suppose it's just an aliasing joke then.
- Fnoord 5y agoWhat's your viewpoint on thehackernews.com?
- dang 5y agoIt irritates me. It's clear that some people confuse it with HN and that sucks. There's even an example in this thread. YC owns Hacker News as a registered trademark. I don't know if that means we could do something about it. Assuming we could, I don't know if that means we should.
- fragmede 5y agoThat's kind of the point of a trademark, and you'll want to talk to an IP lawyer about it. It's important to distinguish the three vastly different types, but trademarks are the one that requires you enforce it, or lose it. (I'm not a lawyer.)