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It’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’
by layer8 2y ago
It’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.