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I number them, and space them out to make it easy to select and copy... there's no way to inline hyperlinks here that I'm aware of. Option #1 -- formatted as a

I number them, and space them out to make it easy to select and copy... there's no way to inline hyperlinks here that I'm aware of. Option #1 -- formatted as a code block [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance_matching [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error Option 2 -- jumble of links [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance_matching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance_matching [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_... [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error - Option 3 -- Extra line breaks everywhere [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance_matching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance_matching [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_... [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error - None of those really seems right [Edit] Sorry, I didn't know about the issues on mobile. it definitely wasn't trying to make it worse on purpose. I added the off by one link to make the examples long enough The 2 biggest problems in computing... Naming things, Cache Invalidation, and off by 1 errors.

Jtsummers 4y ago
No, but if you didn't put the white space at the front of the line they'd be, you know, links. So people don't have to copy/paste them. Which is sort of the point of hypertext. EDIT: Most of the parent comment wasn't there when I wrote my initial reply. Of the three options, the third is the best of a bad situation since we don't get to cleanly inline links like on Reddit and other places. The first is just inconsiderate, especially to mobile users. The second is, as you noted, a mess especially when there are multiple links. The third lets you keep your original intent (clearly listing each link) while letting them still function as links. Which is better than the first option because it's not disrespectful of other people even if it does add some vertical whitespace.
wtetzner 4y ago
If you don’t put them in a code block, the URLs are automatically linkified by HN.
layer8 4y ago
I’d also suggest to leave out the hyphens, they are just visual noise.

Jtsummers 4y ago

No, but if you didn't put the white space at the front of the line they'd be, you know, links. So people don't have to copy/paste them. Which is sort of the point of hypertext. EDIT: Most of the parent comment wasn't there when I wrote my initial reply. Of the three options, the third is the best of a bad situation since we don't get to cleanly inline links like on Reddit and other places. The first is just inconsiderate, especially to mobile users. The second is, as you noted, a mess especially when there are multiple links. The third lets you keep your original intent (clearly listing each link) while letting them still function as links. Which is better than the first option because it's not disrespectful of other people even if it does add some vertical whitespace.

wtetzner 4y ago

If you don’t put them in a code block, the URLs are automatically linkified by HN.

layer8 4y ago

I’d also suggest to leave out the hyphens, they are just visual noise.