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Hacker News has a "post the original source" rule. In this case, Twitter is the original source. One of my most recent grievances is with HN is the ranking pen

Hacker News has a "post the original source" rule. In this case, Twitter is the original source. One of my most recent grievances is with HN is the ranking penalty of Twitter submissions as that has been the primary source of news lately, for better or for worse.

sp332 5y ago
Twitter is not the original source. The first image in the tweet is of an earlier post.
- tekacs 5y ago
  The image you’re talking about in the tweet is of a Discord message — this tweet is presumably the most original source that’s linkable as a normal page on the web.
  - sp332 5y ago
    Thanks, I was trying to figure out what platform that was from.