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just curious, why is the link "apple.com/?hn" ?

• deleted 14y ago
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• lordlarm 14y ago
  Because http://www.apple.com http://www.apple.com was submitted 600+ days ago and HN does not allow reposts.
• mparlane 14y ago
  Because the link has been posted before, to get around the duplicate detection you append meaningless GET params.
  • ashishb4u 14y ago
    More because http://www.apple.com/ http://www.apple.com/ did not opened the Tim's note, while http://www.apple.com/?hn http://www.apple.com/?hn did. It seems any random GET param is indeed meaningful in this case :)
    • kalleboo 14y ago
      Works for me without the GET param. Maybe it's just because you're returning to the page?