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Did you know you could access hacker news via http://www.hackerne.ws?

• ashleyw 18y ago
  Pretty nice, better if it didn't redirect to www.hackerne.ws though...maybe I'm just too picky though!
  • doodyhead 18y ago
    I agree, the www subdomain looks awkward and unwieldy. They should make hackerne.ws the canonical name. Though they'll have to be sure to set their geographic target to the US in Google Webmaster Tools, unless Y Combinator has moved to Western Samoa? ;-)
• dc2k08 18y ago
  did not know that. wonder what purpose it serves. "The .ws domain is an abbreviation for "Western Samoa", the nation's official name when two-letter country codes were standardized in the 1970s" -wik.
  • rms 18y ago
    I believe a forum member purchased and redirected it as "a gift to the Hacker News community" and was immediately flamed for the inherent security issues.
    • immad 18y ago
      Why isn't it actually redirecting though? Seems to be pointing, which is kinda strange. I don't even know how that is done.
      • gduffy 18y ago
        It's a CNAME, and I guess the hacker news web server doesn't care what the HTTP host header says. www.hackerne.ws. 3565 IN CNAME news.ycombinator.com. news.ycombinator.com. 4235 IN A 67.15.104.17
    • parenthesis 18y ago
      http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039
• 13ren 18y ago
  http://www.hackerne.ws http://www.hackerne.ws
• 13ren 18y ago
  my login disappears
  • mncaudill 18y ago
    Different domain, different cookie.
• dfranke 18y ago
  Judging by my referer logs when something on my site gets posted here, people do actually use this.