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I wonder if submitting the following link to HN would result in (google.com) being displayed next to the link instead of (tinfoilsecurity.com): http://www.goog

by arscan 14y ago

I wonder if submitting the following link to HN would result in (google.com) being displayed next to the link instead of (tinfoilsecurity.com): http://www.google.com/finance/url?sa=D&q=http://blog.tinfoilsecurity.com/its-the-little-things-that-matter-or-how-goog http://www.google.com/finance/url?sa=D&q=http://blog.tin... I'd try, but I don't want to risk upsetting HN's moderators ;-)

borski 14y ago
Ha, that's cute. I wonder if HN follows redirects in link-posting. My suspicion is no - you can post a 404, for example, and it'll just use the domain.
rwos 14y ago
1.) Yes, I think so. 2.) Don't worry, it has been done before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1259695 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1259695 (That particular instance doesn't work anymore, though)