HN is the aggregator, not the middle man, once an interesting story gets to the front page people in the community can start interesting debates. So linking to

HN is the aggregator, not the middle man, once an interesting story gets to the front page people in the community can start interesting debates. So linking to other aggregators is like linking from HN to digg or reddit, being TC another one of them. Good netiquette links directly to the source.