For the specific niche of Hacker News style tech content (there are many domains where it's different - e.g. actual local news/politics/etc), when a major newsp

For the specific niche of Hacker News style tech content (there are many domains where it's different - e.g. actual local news/politics/etc), when a major newspaper or news site is linked, then it generally either republishes or rewrites some primary source, and we here would prefer to see a link to the original - e.g. the actual paper from the university or the project description from its author with all the nitty-gritty details, instead of a vague pop-sci rewrite to make it more palatable to a non-tech audience. And in those cases, yes, the news site is only writing about the content to push ads, and there is no reason to legitimize various intermediaries which do not add value.