The "self" link confused me at first. My eye happened to catch it before I saw any of the other links, so I thought it meant it was linking to my reply in that

The "self" link confused me at first. My eye happened to catch it before I saw any of the other links, so I thought it meant it was linking to my reply in that thread. I'd like to propose "news.ycombinator.com" instead of self, which would also be consistent with the other domain names listed for each article.