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The actual title is "Press conference at ESO on groundbreaking Milky Way results from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration". Milky Way is one of the more i

The actual title is "Press conference at ESO on groundbreaking Milky Way results from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration". Milky Way is one of the more important parts of that title because the first image of a blackhole that we got from the EHT [0] earlier was actually an image of the supermassive blackhole M87* in the center of another galaxy - Messier 87 [1]. I expect that they announce that they did the same measurements on the supermassive blackhole in our own galaxy, Sagittarius A* [2]. Beside that and as much fun as speculating about the content of the press conference might be, the announcement of an announcement is unfortunately just that [3]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_87 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_87 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A -> follow the link to the blackhole from there. The actual article has got a trailing * on its link and that does not properly linkify here. [3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20announcement%20of%20an%20announcement&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

dang 4y ago
> The actual article has got a trailing * on its link and that does not properly linkify here. Ah yes - that can seem like a bug in the URL parser, but the problem is that there are other cases where people put asterisks after links that shouldn't* be incorporated into the URL. So ultimately it's an ambiguity. In fact, I vaguely remember going through the corpus of HN comments, the last time I worked on the URL parser, to see which way trailing asterisks should be treated, and it turned out that "don't include them" was the more common case. (Or maybe I just imagined doing that.) In any case, for such occurrences I believe you can use angle brackets as parser hints and your URL should get linkified correctly: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*> Edit: yup! This is in https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc, as it happens.
- _Microft 4y ago
  Thanks a lot for the explanation! It never occured to me that there might be more to links in angle brackets than personal style or habit of a commenter.

dang 4y ago

> The actual article has got a trailing * on its link and that does not properly linkify here. Ah yes - that can seem like a bug in the URL parser, but the problem is that there are other cases where people put asterisks after links that shouldn't* be incorporated into the URL. So ultimately it's an ambiguity. In fact, I vaguely remember going through the corpus of HN comments, the last time I worked on the URL parser, to see which way trailing asterisks should be treated, and it turned out that "don't include them" was the more common case. (Or maybe I just imagined doing that.) In any case, for such occurrences I believe you can use angle brackets as parser hints and your URL should get linkified correctly: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*> Edit: yup! This is in https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc, as it happens.

_Microft 4y ago
Thanks a lot for the explanation! It never occured to me that there might be more to links in angle brackets than personal style or habit of a commenter.