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I may be wrong, but I feel that the gist of posting the direct source is to avoid websites reporting a news regarding that source. Such as, amd announcing new
by amarcheschi 2y ago
I may be wrong, but I feel that the gist of posting the direct source is to avoid websites reporting a news regarding that source.
Such as, amd announcing new graphics card and a blog making a post about it. And it is understandable that it would be better to post amd own's page.
I would be curious about dang opinion on posting non og link that only contain the og source repackaged in a more accessible way
- layer8 2y agoIt’s also to automatically deduplicate submissions of the same source. And HN does for example block archive.is for submissions, to which your argument wouldn’t apply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130177 You can email hn@ycombinator.com to ask about the policy.
- amarcheschi 2y agoOh ok, it is quite useful for disambiguation. I get that
- dang 2y agoTo add a bit to what layer8 correctly said: it's also for displaying the original provenance of the article (i.e. the domain it came from), and for making the /from pages that list submissions from a domain work properly. That may not matter when there's just one: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/sollenbergerrc https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/sollenber... but it does when there are lots: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/karpathy https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/karpathy.