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Oh ok, it is quite useful for disambiguation. I get that
by amarcheschi 2y ago
Oh 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.